Are You Ready For The Future? / Yale Interviews and Resources for Artists - Your Weekly Digest

Published: Sun, 05/26/24

Updated: Mon, 05/27/24

MAY 26, 2024

Are You Ready For The Future?

by Brainard Carey

Melvin Way (1954 – 2024) Fauvi, c. 1989 Ballpoint pen and Scotch tape on paper 10.75 x 8.5 inches. Melvin Way estate ,ARS artists rights society @ 2024.

“Nothing stops an Idea.” -Andri Snær Magnason, LoveStar: A Novel

As the world moves swiftly toward an increasingly automated future, with AI storming into view everywhere from writing to art, politics to cinema and beyond, what might things look like a decade down the road or even beyond? Will we reach a time, like the one in LoveStar, when absolutely everything – including love – is carefully calculated? Will we begin distrusting our instincts in favor of rigid evidence in all things? What might this world look like, and would you want to live in it?

Polly Shindler spoke with us about her recent show, Windows, which ran until May 11 at Deanna Evans Projects. The title of the show – her first solo exhibition – reflects the idea of glimpsing the lives of others, small moments that create a split that forces one to consider the lives they themselves have not and will not live, the choices they have not made. To learn more, listen to the complete interview.

Andrew Castrucci/Melvin Way—We were joined by curator Andrew Castrucci, who talked with us about CO₂ Blues, an exhibition of work by the late Melvin Way at Andrew Edlin Gallery. In the late 80s, Castrucci taught art at a men’s shelter, which is where he met Melvin, encouraging him with art supplies and inspiration. To learn more, listen to the complete interview.

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Jack Schneider is an artist and curator living in Chicago, Illinois. Schneider is a curatorial assistant at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago where he has organized numerous exhibitions including Water After All, Chicago Works: Deborah Stratman, and Dan Peterman: Sulfur Cycle 2.0. Schneider is also co-director of Prairie, an independent exhibition space focused on critically engaged emerging artists. His own artwork has recently been exhibited at Murmurs Gallery (Los Angeles), Gas Gallery (Los Angeles), The Franklin (Chicago), Horse & Pony Fine Art (Berlin), Bass & Reiner (San Francisco), 1.5 Rooms (Brooklyn), Adds Donna (Chicago), Born Nude (Chicago), and Lodos (Mexico City).

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