BRIAN SHOLIS Jun 30, 2005
" Some time later, Carl Andre wrote, "THEORY IS A SUBSTITUTE FOR EXPERIENCE/PROPHECY RESHAPES EXPERIENCE/SMITHSON IS A PROPHET." This was not simply advocacy work on behalf of friends. In the 60s, as art historian James Meyer points out in the introduction to a newly published collection of Andre's writings, artists increasingly picked up the pento contextualize their work and to refute the claims of an ever-growing cadre of professional critics, whether overly literary or dryly theoretical.... (New York Press)
Recreation center to replace PCAT Oct 12, 2004
Irish was to meet with James Meyer, partner in OPSIS, late Monday to lay out the groundwork for the new configuration. The decision to build the recreation center at the PCAT location was decided by student and administration conferring together. (Vanguard, OR)
FULL HIGHLIGHTS Mar 19, 2004
James Meyer, associate professor of art history at Emory University and author of Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties, will lecture on scale in sculpture from the 1960s to the present, and Darby English, Assistant Professor in Art History, will respond. Following the lecture, arts scholars and professionals will evaluate the legacy of light-based art from the 1960s. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Building Block Feb 28, 2004
Associate Professor of Art History James Meyer, along with Professor of Art History Clark Poling and Associate Director of the Michael C. Carlos Museum Catherine Howett Smith, spearheaded the acquisition of the sculpture, which took three years. An anonymous gift allowed Emory to purchase the sculpture, and the acquisition committee explored a number of LeWitt s works before deciding on Tower 1, which they felt was most fitting for the Emory campus, according to Carlos Museum Director Bonnie... (The Emory Wheel, GA)
