LTTR is a feminist genderqueer collective with a flexible project oriented practice. LTTR was founded in 2001 by Ginger Brooks Takahashi , K8 Hardy and Emily Roysdon . LTTR produces a performance series, events, screenings and collaborations. It also released five issues of an annual independent art journal between 2002 and 2006.
16-573: The collective is rooted in community and collaborative processes without hierarchy. LTTR is a shifting acronym; it started in 2001 as "Lesbians to the Rescue" and has since stood for phrases ranging from "Lacan Teaches to Repeat" to "Let's Take the Role." LTTR is dedicated to highlighting the work of radical communities whose goals are sustainable change, queer pleasure, and critical feminist productivity. In contrast to more dogmatic approaches to identity, LTTR takes
32-609: A brief biography focused on the type of art that they collect (contemporary, post war, modern, etc.) and includes their city or cities of residence, a photo, their source of wealth and the years they have been on the Top 200 list, as many collectors are on it for multiple years. The list released in September 2018 includes Leonard Lauder , Edythe and Eli Broad , Rebecca and Warren Eisenberg, Alison and Peter Klein, Marsha and Jeffrey Perelman , Tatsumi Sako, Sheri and Howard Schultz . The full list
48-469: A curated selection of theory, essays, and images including photography, drawings and prints. The inaugural issue of the collective's art journal was entitled "Lesbians to the Rescue," followed by "Listen Translate Translate Record," "Practice More Failure," "Do You Wish to Direct Me?," and "Positively Nasty." LTTR Journal was produced collectively by many young gay and lesbian artists and feminists. The editorial debates of LTTR and decision making surrounding
64-411: A more fluid and questioning approach to identity and authorship. It seeks to create and build a context for a culture of critical thinkers whose work not only speaks in dialogue with one another, but consistently challenges its own form by shifting shape and design to best respond to contemporary concerns. According to Holland Cotter of The New York Times , "The idea of moving art out of the control of
80-653: A trip to China prompted by the 2008 Summer Olympics , including an examination of the Chinese museum scene and an account of art at the Mogao Caves near Dunhuang . In 2009, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism . Art News ARTnews is an American art magazine , based in New York City . It covers visual arts from ancient to contemporary times. It is the oldest and most widely distributed art magazine in
96-566: Is an American writer and co-chief art critic with The New York Times . In 2009, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism . Cotter was born in Connecticut and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts . He earned his A.B. from Harvard College in 1970, where he studied English literature under poet Robert Lowell and was an editor of the Harvard Advocate literary magazine. His first art course
112-458: Is released annually and contains the top individual art collectors from around the world based on interviews with collectors, curators, dealers, auction houses, and museums. Those on the list are also surveyed, and their responses are used to inform trends and provide data, such as a breakdown of where the most top art collectors live (the United States). Collectors on the list are profiled with
128-626: The New York Arts Journal , Art in America , and Art News . Cotter was a freelance writer for the New York Times from 1992 to 1997 before being hired as a full-time art critic in 1998. Specifically hired for his expertise in Asian art, he is credited with exposing contemporary Indian and Chinese art to a Western audience. Among his Pulitzer-winning pieces were ones written as a result of
144-929: The journal. Each issue included handmade artists' multiples and was published in a print run of 1000 copies. Ulrike Müller joined LTTR in 2005 and Lanka Tattersal was an editor and collaborator for issue 4. As their project expanded, LTTR exhibited the journal at venues including Artists Space in New York City, the Generali Foundation in Vienna, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany. Authority control Holland Cotter Holland Cotter
160-454: The magazine was published as American Art News . From February 1923 to the present, the magazine has been published as The Art News then ARTnews . The magazine's art critics and correspondents include Arthur Danto , Linda Yablonsky, Barbara Pollock, Margarett Loke, Hilarie Sheets, Yale School of Art dean Robert Storr , Doug McClemont and Museum of Modern Art director Glenn D. Lowry . In April 2014, Milton and Judith Esterow,
176-535: The magazine's owners since 1972, sold the publication to Skate Capital Corp., a private asset-management firm owned by Sergey Skaterschikov. It was later revealed that Skate Capital was acting on behalf of the Polish company Abbey House, which renamed itself ARTNEWS SA. Following this change in ownership the magazine merged with Art in America in June 2015, owned by Brant Publication's BMP Media Holdings, LLC. In October 2015
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#1732848664426192-408: The printed journal were based on the idea of making a significant contribution to contemporary feminist genderqueer concerns. It was edited by consensus in long-process editorial sessions. Each issue was initiated with an international open call and through interpersonal relationships from within their communities. Each submission was considered independently and in regards to the working themes of
208-423: The professional art world underlies the thinking of many of the individuals and collectives associated with LTTR." LTTR's members have also used their bands, poster projects, workshops and sit-ins as media for exploring the political possibilities of feminist pop-cultural influence. LTTR Journal was an annual publication with a zine aesthetic. It had five issues published from 2002 to 2006. The issues contained
224-751: The publishing cadence of ARTnews was reduced to quarterly. In 2016, Brant Publications took full control of BMP. In 2018, Penske Media Corporation , the parent company of Variety Magazine, acquired ARTnews and Art in America . The magazine has won the George Polk Award , the National Magazine Award for General Excellence, the National Headliner Award and the National Arts Club Distinguished Citation for Merit. The ARTnews Top 200 list
240-424: The world. ARTnews has a readership of 180,000 in 124 countries. It includes news dispatches from correspondents, investigative reports, reviews of exhibitions, and profiles of artists and collectors. The magazine was founded by James Clarence Hyde in 1902 as Hydes Weekly Art News and was originally published eleven times a year. From vol. 3, no. 52 (November 5, 1904) to vol. 21, no. 18 (February 10, 1923),
256-525: Was an anthropology course on primitive art , which led to his first of many visits to Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology . Cotter earned an MA in American modernism from the City University of New York in 1990 and a M. Phil in early Indian Buddhist art from Columbia University in 1992, where he also taught Indian art and Islamic art . He has been a writer and editor for
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