A native of Southern California, Kelly McBride is earning her B.A. from Biola University, studying creative writing and taking art classes on the side. She likes mountains, animals, abstract expressionism, and thrift store shopping.
Noteworthy: Banksy's Dismaland
…where consumerism blocks people from reality.
Perfect Likeness: Photography and Composition, a current exhibition at UCLA’s Hammer museum, explores the tension between art photography and commercial photography.
Noteworthy: Realise Minas Tirith
For the equivalent of 2.9 billion US dollars, the shining city J.R.R. Tolkien wrote about in Return of the King could become a real-life city in southern England.
As If It Were Already Here is Echelman’s monumental, aerial sculpture suspended over Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway
Chasing after the mystery in the ordinary
Noteworthy: Freeways as Cathedrals
I grew up with the Southern California freeways. Coming back from a long trip and leaving the placeless airport, the freeways were always the first part of home I encountered. They are dirty and congested, but I always picture them white and lined with palm trees. Los Angeles was formed around its roads and cars, […]
In his essay for Commentary, “How Art became Irrelevant,” Michael J. Lewis describes a shift in public perception of art. Previously, art was an integral part of the experience of a member of society.To some, contemporary art is seen as increasingly bizarre and having very little to do with the experience of the everyday person. Lewis […]
Noteworthy: Getting Someone to Care
On public mourning and the work of Colombian artist Doris Salcedo
Noteworthy: Appropriation and Donald Featherstone’s Pink Flamingo
Donald Featherstone, creator of the iconic pink flamingo lawn ornament, died on June 22nd at the age of 79. Featherstone created numerous bird and animal sculptures throughout his career, but his flamingo lawn ornament took on a life of its own, becoming an icon of American kitsch and appropriated by numerous subcultures throughout its almost […]
Noteworthy: Constellation at Bannerman Castle
On Land Art, ephemerality, and the vastness of the universe
Caring for nature is not merely a way of caring for an abstract future
Noteworthy: The Future Library
A thousand trees are growing in Norway until 2114 when they will be cut down and used to print an anthology of the works written for The Future Library.
Noteworthy: “Wasting Time on The Internet”
and Meaning in Ephemera
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