The New York Professional Outreach Program (NYPOP) is about making connections that lead to a career in the visual arts. The program brings university students to the work places of contemporary professionals in New York City. The experience encourages students to believe in the possibility of a career for themselves. Students and faculty of NYPOP will be posting to this blog. We will register impressions and ideas that are generated by our experience in the professional art world. For more information, please visit our website: umass.edu/nypopTumblr (3.0; @nypop-art)http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/6058dd63458dd94396f294b9686fd7fd/tumblr_mjk7dyTQls1qzaos7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://hyperallergic.tumblr.com/post/45199983271/the-bus-station-theory-or-why-you-should-stick" target="_blank">hyperallergic</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><big>The Bus Station Theory, or, Why You Should Stick to Your Own Pursuit of Creativity</big></p> <blockquote> <p>Buses in Helsinki (Image via<a href="http://johnmartintaylor.com/newsletter_20010902_helsinki_by_jmt.html" target="_blank"> johnmartintaylor.com</a>)</p> <div><span>There are plenty of ways to think about planning an artistic career. Are you aiming to be the enfant terrible, a young provocateur? Or are you playing the long game, sticking with your work until it gets recognized?</span></div> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://hyperallergic.com/66783/why-you-should-stick-to-your-own-pursuit-of-creativity/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p> </blockquote> <p>Some great advice for young artists…</p>http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/45213732760http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/45213732760Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:17:02 -0400amandatillerBig Red & Shiny: Michael Childress: Navigation Paintings: A great article about the new work of our...http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/43497868750http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/43497868750Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:29:41 -0500amandatillerNYPOP guest speaker Tiernan Morgan has posted a great interview with the always amazing...http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/42593096754http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/42593096754Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:08:19 -0500tiernan morganlucy lippardart interviewsamandatiller<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9853c63bce97444a42cbe1fe49b3ea4d/tumblr_mh4wfoNJQK1qeeaq3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://michaelscogginsins.tumblr.com/post/41359603804/seeing-that-will-never-get-old" target="_blank">michaelscogginsins</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Seeing that will never get old.</p> </blockquote> <p>Go get a New York Magazine… the cover features the work of Michael Scoggins, one of our former guest artists!</p>http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/41364681796http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/41364681796Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:22:38 -0500michael scoggingnew york magamandatiller<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/0c42c76406251969197516a98d01c6ae/tumblr_mgf5vqFlJh1r1uo5qo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Go check out Shannon Finnegan’s solo show <a href="http://outletbk.com/exhibitions/duel/" target="_blank">Duel</a>.  Opens tomorrow!  Show runs January 11 - 27.</p>http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/40181445628http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/40181445628Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:59:00 -0500shannon finneganexhibitionnypop guestamandatiller<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ba8fb615a218f4e708a1322ccd346bea/tumblr_mgdjmp3vXd1qzaos7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://hyperallergic.tumblr.com/post/40111149072/new-art-spaces-in-the-bushwick-area-part-1-the" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">hyperallergic</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><strong><a href="http://hyperallergic.com/63126/new-art-spaces-in-the-bushwick-area-part-1/" target="_blank">New Art Spaces in the Bushwick Area, Part 1</a></strong></p> <p>The bewildering number of new galleries opening in Bushwick in late 2012 and early this year continues to grow (even while this article goes to press). The gallery counts now, depending on who you ask, are above 45. Growth seems to be nothing short of exponential as virtually every major studio building in every micro-neighborhood that’s part of Bushwick is now home to several artist-run exhibition spaces, and naturally, apartment shows abound. Here’s the first five on our list.</p></blockquote>http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/40172044624http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/40172044624Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:16:57 -0500amandatillerDeadline is approaching for these excellent residency and exhibition opportunities! Spend some time...http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/39593498433http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/39593498433Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:34:00 -0500wassaicprojectresidenciesexhibition opportunitiesart deadlinesamandatillerOn friday I picked up a copy of the NY Times and read a review of Tomoaki Suzuki&#8217;s sculpture...http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/37675113302http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/37675113302Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:33:17 -0500lukeegan-deactivated20130407 If tomorrow I disappeared off the face of the earth all that would physically left over would be...http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/37577283839http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/37577283839Sun, 09 Dec 2012 15:06:57 -0500flandy355<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a20ff08584ed02b6dabe538c1c783cc1/tumblr_merz9z3gM51r1uo5qo1_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/65a0b32de37c21f1ef5c4d71811626bc/tumblr_merz9z3gM51r1uo5qo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/52e9dcc606a8f85bfa9101cfde7cbe97/tumblr_merz9z3gM51r1uo5qo3_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f4c9152a57b4f93c7c4337f0d6cf89cd/tumblr_merz9z3gM51r1uo5qo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>            I wouldn’t use the word “sinister” to describe the pop show at the Whitney now. I walked in there expecting to make a distinction from the Warhol show at the <span>Met and it was difficult…<span>                                                                                                                               </span>While there was plenty of work in the Warhol show that exercised his “give the people what they already want” kind of disposition, there was no shortage of ambulance disasters, mauled civil rights activists, burning gas stations and crude Basquiats. <span>                                                                               </span></span><br/><span><span></span>          Don’t get me wrong; while there was some overtly violent and grotesque work at the met. Peter Saul’s painting of Angela Davis being impaled on a skyscraper while she was currently awaiting trial, (the prosecution pushing for capital punishment) or “Amboosh” a violent image illustrating racial stereotypes and exploitative behaviors of American service men in Vietnam. Images of Jim Nutt as well were blatant. “She’s hit” and “The Face Fits” being images that regard cosmetic emphasis and disasters. Lee Lorzano also worked with darker political and social imagery, resisting the general “pop” aesthetic crudely scrawling images of gnashing teeth and the occasional genitals with a dirty pencil on a dirty paper.<span></span></span><br/><span><span>           </span><span></span>However, there were many other images that were less abrasive (and Harmless comparatively). There were many other pieces by the like of Tom Wesselman and May Stevens that could have easily fit into the Met show. Most of the work was ambiguous and tepidly reflective of social behaviors. Just because Marylin Monroe’s face is blue now, it’s not ominous and “sinister”. I guess this Marylin is dead now? Not sure.<span></span></span><br/><span><span>            </span>They were both fine exhibitions. There isn’t anything menacing and dark about Claus Oldenburg’s soft sculpture of an ashtray, it actually looked really comfortable.                                                                                                                                <span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span> I just think a word like “Sinister” would be a little heavy handed to describe either, but   especially this one.</span></p>http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/37567301813http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/37567301813Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:58:00 -0500ebenkling Loretta Yarlow has been the Director of the University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass since...http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/37480600003http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/37480600003Sat, 08 Dec 2012 11:17:33 -0500NYPOP CuratorialUMCAUniversity Museum of Contemporary Artqarr In Bocca al Lupo Stoneware based mixed media sculpture 56 x 84 x 24 inches @ Claire Oliver...http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/37455152295http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/37455152295Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:54:00 -0500qarr Beth Cavener Stichter’s show, Come Undone at Claire Oliver in Chelsea was a confusing one for me. ...http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/37454589220http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/37454589220Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:45:11 -0500jmorellli These days, I hardly listen to music anymore.  In fact, I haven&#8217;t purchased new music in a...http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/37452677640http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/37452677640Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:14:42 -0500jmorellliThe Herter Art Gallery exhibited a series of photos taken by some talented photographers whom...http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/37461396044http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/37461396044Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:00:00 -0500famine-affair Let me just say that I never really got Chuck Close. That&#8217;s an incorrect statement. I...http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/37442835698http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/37442835698Fri, 07 Dec 2012 20:48:00 -0500molly-hoisingtonWalking into the the exhibit, I couldn&#8217;t make a connection between the figures. They were on...http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/37441286023http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/37441286023Fri, 07 Dec 2012 20:25:00 -0500molly-hoisingtonFor the final trip, I revisited the MoMa to spend some time viewing the Quay Brother&#8217;s...http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/37437708373http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/37437708373Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:32:31 -0500jameswinterhalter  Jackie Shatz curated this exhibition to pay homage and recognize the art of the collage. The...http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/37405332766http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/37405332766Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:18:49 -0500nickcollilouriTo take a group of words and concoct a work of visual art that’s foundation is derived from that...http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/37405229448http://nypop-art.tumblr.com/post/37405229448Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:16:23 -0500nickcollilouri