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Loading the Canon #24: Molotov Bouquet
Loading the Canon #24 by Helena-Anne Hittel Molotov Bouquet What do you do when you think the Tate Gallery in London needs a little extra “something” on the wall? If you’re Banksy, you take that something and hang that “something” up there yourself. It will only remain there for an hour before the gallery gets… Continue reading
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Loading the Canon #23: The Powers That Be
Loading the Canon #23 by Helena-Anne Hittel The Powers That Be Iconoclastic Chinese artist Ai Weiwei just can’t seem to catch a break this year. Back in February, Miami artist Maximo Caminero smashed one of the vases in Weiwei’s “According to What?” installation at the Perez Art Museum in protest of the lack of local… Continue reading
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Loading the Canon #22: That’s Not What You Think That Is
Loading the Canon #22 by Helena-Anne Hittel That’s Not What You Think That Is Here’s a photograph of a work titled Princess X (1915-16). I want you to take a good, long look at it. Ready? Go. Yeah. It’s okay to feel what you’re feeling. “Helena-Anne. That’s a penis. Why am I looking at a giant penis?”… Continue reading
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Loading the Canon #21: Unique Forms of Continuity in Plumbing
Loading the Canon #21 by Helena-Anne Hittel Unique Forms of Continuity in Plumbing I know I’ve said many times before that, of all artistic movements, there’s very little love in my heart for Dadaism. Loading the Canon #4’s Marcel Dzama made me hopeful, I’ll admit. I was hopeful, really. I was actually kinda happy! That… Continue reading
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Loading the Canon #20: Juliet DiIenno
Loading the Canon #20 by Helena-Anne Hittel Interview With an Artist: Juliet DiIenno It’s not every day that your work, as a student artist, gets picked up by an institution, let alone a museum overseas. The planets aligned for Juliet DiIenno of UCF, though, and one of her pieces is now in the permanent collection… Continue reading
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Loading the Canon # 19: The Appeal of De Stijl
Loading the Canon #19 by Helena-Anne Hittel The Appeal of De Stijl 20th Century Art History was probably one of my most favorite courses my last semester at UCF. I have quite the soft spot for modern art–modern, in the art world, described as anything from roughly the late 19th century to the late 20th… Continue reading
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Loading the Canon #18: Iconoclasm
Loading the Canon #18 by Helena-Anne Hittel Iconoclasm On February 17, Maximo Caminero walked into the Perez Art Museum in Miami, which was currently housing an exhibit of the work of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, according to The Times. Caminero picked up one of sixteen colored vases (from the work “Colored Vases,” dated 2006-2012) and… Continue reading
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Loading the Canon #17: St. Basil’s Cathedral
Loading the Canon #17 by Helena-Anne Hittel St. Basil’s Cathedral I’m a huge Olympics fan. I wait as patiently as I possibly can to hear that opening theme and see the athletes of the world push themselves to the breaking point-some, unfortunately, literally do just that. This year, the Olympics call their stage Sochi, Russia.… Continue reading
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Loading the Canon #16: I See Naked People
Loading the Canon #16 by Helena-Anne Hittel I See Naked People If you were to take all of your clothes off, it shouldn’t really surprise you what you’d see. You know by now what a naked man or woman looks like. Given this, why do people freak out over seeing another naked human being in… Continue reading
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Loading the Canon #15: Chihuly in the Desert
Loading the Canon #15 by Helena-Anne Hittel Not Your Mom’s Garden Art! Wait a second, I recognize that glasswork. Are we gonna do Chihuly AGAIN? Yes. Yes we are. A few weeks ago, I flew to Arizona with about 260 or so members of the Marching Knights for our performance at the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl,… Continue reading
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