BRISTOL, UK — On Saturday night here, in a concert hall whose former life as a church moved him to sing hymns, artist Theaster Gates gave a site-specific performance that brought many audience members to tears and prompted others to walk out.
Janet Tyson
Janet Tyson is an independent art historian, critic and artist. She lives and works in a semi-rural part of Michigan for about nine months a year, and in London for about three months a year.
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Finding Art in the Smallness of Everyday Enthusiasms
INDIANAPOLIS — The domestic and personal are generally accorded critical attention when cast as dysfunctional; Michelle Grabner presents the domestic as a relatively positive creative force.
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Slicing Through the Noise at an Alternative Art Fair in London
LONDON — After visiting two of the art fairs being held in London this fall, I couldn’t help but compare and contrast Frieze London 2015 and Sluice_2015.
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Sussing Out Subtlety at the Frieze Art Fairs in London
LONDON — Last year was my first Frieze London fair, and I was baffled that it could seem so desultory, given that it was chock-a-block with pointlessly novel artworks.
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So You Want to Start a College Art Museum…
HOLLAND, Mich. — When I first heard that Hope College was building a new art museum my first thought was: Why?
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The Little-Known Engineer Who Made the First Abstract Paintings in the US
MUSKEGON, Mich. — What’s especially significant about Manierre Dawson is that he made his breakthrough to non-objective imagery prior to any exposure to modernist art.
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A 19th-Century Paper Mill Transformed into a Space for Art
PLAINWELL, Mich. — In Sarah Lindley’s current installation at the historic Plainwell Paper Mill Company in southwestern Michigan, she traces the watershed of the Kalamazoo River.