Holland Cotter and The New York Times briefly mentioned the panel An Xiao led with Joanne McNeil for #class, organized by Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida and presented at Winkleman Gallery. Many thanks to Joanne and Winkleman Gallery for assisting with the correction:
Can we talk? That seems to be an urgent art world question, partly because of an economic shakedown that sensible people — i.e., the writers of art fair news releases — keep saying is over, or never happened. But New York artists, in need of jobs or apartments or ways to pay their art school loans, are pretty sure that it did happen, and that it isn’t all that over, even if the Armory Show really had an extraspecial year.
…And the writer Joanne McNeil and the artist An Xiao led a panel on the notion that the art world isn’t as racially integrated as it likes to think.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/arts/design/19galleries-002.html
Sharon Butler also mentioned An and Joanne for her article about #class in The Huffington Post:
#class, a sprawling and innovative project at Winkleman Gallery in New York, closed last week. Artists William Powhida and Jennifer Dalton had turned the gallery into a “think tank” for guest artists, critics, academics, dealers, collectors, and anyone else interested in examining the way art is made, seen, and sold in our culture…. They included seasoned bloggers - Hrag Vartanian, Carolina Miranda, Barry Hoggard, James Wagner, An Xiao, Olympia Lambert, Loren Munk, Joanne McNeil, and many others (I organized a discussion about art school and the Ivory Tower) - in all the presentations and discussions, ensuring that blog and related coverage would be abundant.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sharon-l-butler/artists-take-on-the-art-i_b_516926.html
Many many kind thanks to both writers and publications for this coverage. It was an amazing event.
