Togetherness: Individuality and Community
February 2017
by Mark W. Scala/Chief Curator Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Nowadays many artists are wondering if and how they should respond to an emerging political environment that they fear m...
As I See It: Talent, Celebrity, and Creativity: Intersecting Mediums
December 2016
A Closer Look at Harmony Korine, Patti Smith and Don Van Vliet
by Mark W. Scala
Mark W. Scala Chief Curator
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Caker Plino, 2015, Oil,...
Style, Money, and the Long Game
October 2016
by Mark W. Scala
Chief Curator
Frist Center for the Visual ArtsStyle
“The slow burn seems to operate best in a culture that appreciates the poetics of nuance over spectacle, deep excava...
As I See It – Art and Abrasion: Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch
June 2016
by Mark W. Scala
Chief Curator, Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Ryan Trecartin, Temple Time (still), 2016, Single-channel HD video, 49 minutes. Courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
It ...
The Ocean Comes to Town
by Mark W. Scala/ May 2016
Chief Curator
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Head for the water. This is the advice to newly emerging artists that renowned critic Dave Hickey offered during a ta...
Economics and Political Theater
Guy Ben-Ner’s Video Stealing Beauty
by Mark W. Scala
“Stealing Beauty evokes political spectacles in which narratives put forth by every candidate toggle freely between reality, fiction, and propaganda, and...
As I See It -View from On High The Ambiguities of Drone Warfare
by Mark W. Scala
Chief Curator, Frist Center for the Visual Arts
In his 2011 video 5,000 Feet Is the Best, Omer Fast opens a window onto one of the most contentious aspects of the war on terror: the use ...
As I See It – James Turrell and the Presence of Light
by Mark W. Scala, Chief Curator Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Great works of art become a part of us. Some do this by recalibrating our understanding of the political, social, or linguistic structures of ...