Over the past few years, New York-based artist Dana Sherwood has organized a picnic for wild baboons on the South African coast, left banquets for raccoons in the suburbs of South Florida, and concocted a molded terrine of jellied spam, beef, hot dogs, and marrow bones for coyotes.
February 2016
Playing Back 50 Years of Video Art
EAST LANSING, Mich. — As digital and web-based forms of dissemination have competed with video art, what is left to distinguish it as a standalone genre?
New Hieronymus Bosch Painting Discovered in Kansas City
The largest Hieronymus Bosch exhibition ever organized, set to open in two weeks in the Dutch master’s hometown in the Netherlands, will now be even bigger.
apexart’s Franchise Program Launches International Open Call for Exhibitions
From February 1-29, NYC’s apexart will accept submissions for its Franchise Program, welcoming proposals from anyone, anywhere.
Artists Buy Trump Campaign Bus on Craigslist, Turn It Into Anti-Trump Art Project
Late last year David Gleeson and Mary Mihelic, cofounders of politically minded art collective T. Rutt, learned via Rachel Maddow that a Donald Trump campaign bus was up for sale on Craigslist in Des Moines, Iowa.
Could NYC’s Island of the Dead Become a Green Burial Park?
Each year, hundreds of New Yorkers are buried in trenches dug deep in the soil of Hart Island, a sliver of forgotten land in the Long Island Sound off the eastern shore of the Bronx.
Singapore’s New National Gallery Dubiously Rewrites Southeast Asian Art History
SINGAPORE — The National Gallery Singapore (NGS) opened on November 25, 2015 — a high point in Singapore’s year-round celebrations of 50 years as an independent nation.
The Space Between Opportunity and Rejection
I’ve learned it’s better to keep good news to myself …