Madeleine Seidel, Author at Burnaway

Madeleine Seidel

Madeleine Seidel is a curator, writer, and MA candidate currently based in Brooklyn. Her current research concerns exhibiting film, video art in the practice of feminist, queer, and indigenous creators, and the interactions between arthouse film, pop culture, and politics in the 1960s. She is also currently working on projects that discuss the ethics of exhibiting art from outsider artists of the Southern U.S. within non-Southern gallery spaces. Recently, she has worked at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Atlanta Contemporary, and the Dalí Museum.

States of Leisure

Cruel Summer: Florida on Film

Madeleine Seidel critiques the spectacular but shallow depictions of Florida and its recreation industry in films including “Spring Breakers,” “Magic Mike,” and “The Florida Project.”

Art Review

Celestia Morgan at the Birmingham Museum of Art

Celestia Morgan draws attention to the ongoing impact of racially discriminatory housing practices such as redlining in an exhibition at the Birmingham Museum of Art.

Feature, Profile

Virginia Overton: In and Out of Context

Madeleine Seidel profiles Tennessee native Virginia Overton and considers the importance of site, material, and context in the artist’s sculptural works.

Art Review

Here I Am Don’t You See Me: Mary T. Smith at SHRINE in New York

BA contributor Madeleine Seidel considers the commodification of self-taught art and paintings by Mississippi painter Mary T. Smith on view in New York.