Each issue, we pose a question to a number of people from different disciplines. Why? So we can get a better understanding of what art means in our times.
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Open House, more questions!!
At our Open House on September 6, 2007, we asked you "What is art and why does it matter?" and "What is your favorite work of art at the Gallery and why?" Here are some of your excellent answers.
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Can art change the world?
Stephen Vincent Kobasa, writer for the New Haven Advocate; Jessica Stockholder, Professor of Sculpture, Yale School of Art; Robbin Zella, Director and Curator, Housatonic Museum
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What is art and why does it matter?
We asked you at our Open House on September 7, 2006. Here are some of your thoughts.
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Do artists need training?
Lee Kogan, Director of the Folk Art Institute and Curator of Special Projects for the Contemporary Center, American Folk Art Museum; Denise Markonish, Gallery Director/Curator, Artspace, New Haven
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Can art be criticized on ethical grounds?
Paul Bass, Editor-in-Chief of the New Haven Independent; Jonathan Gilmore, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Yale University; Dominique Nahas, independent curator and Interim Director of Maryland Institute’s Hoffberger Graduate School.
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Why is ugly beautiful?
Inspired by our Focus On feature about a hideous, beautiful gorgon (see Focus On: The Power of Ugliness).
K. Alexandra Curtis, Postdoctoral Fellow in Fisheries Oceanography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada; Stephen Kellert, the Tweedy Ordway Professor of Social Ecology, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Emily Vannucci, Account Executive, Marc Jacobs, Intl.
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Has science far surpassed art, or vice versa?
Posed by a Web site viewer, Mimi Carter Haley, in response to an article by Arthur Lubow in the New York Times (“The Next Cultural Establishment,” October 3, 2004).
Karsten Harries, Professor of Philosophy, Yale University; Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles, Lecturer, Department of History, Yale University; Pierre Larauza, Architect and Cross-Disciplinary Artist; Sawad Brooks, Artist/Designer.
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Why don’t people talk about art the way they talk about movies?
John Boonstra, Film Critic at the New Haven Advocate; Jeffrey Stuker, graduate student, Painting, Yale School of Art; Kris Wetmore, Visual Arts Teacher, Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School in New Haven
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Would art sink without money?
Joshua Chuang, graduate student, Yale School of Management; Dimitris Daskalopoulos, C.E.O. of Delta Holding, collector of contemporary art, and a member of the International Director’s Council committee for acquisitions at the Guggenheim Museum, N.Y.; Jonathan Feinstein, Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management
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