Art
Nina Chanel Abney Paints on the Edge of Violence
Abney locates much of her work on the recognition that abuse and violence are an integral part of the everyday consciousness of people of color.
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Art
Laura Owens and the Death of the Auteur
Owens’s mid-career works feel completely sterile, mainstream, and middlebrow — with just enough insider info to flatter the viewer who knows something about Roland Barthes.
Art
From Chelsea Manning to Pussy Riot, the Day for Night Summit Discusses Realities of Art and Politics
Chelsea Manning, Laurie Anderson, Saul Williams, Nadya Tolokonnikova, and Lauren McCarthy kicked off Day for Night with a Friday Summit that explored the realities of art, tech, and politics.
Art
Nothing Is As It Was
I live in a state in the heart of the heart of the country.
Books
The Making of a Modernist in the First-Ever Biography of Alexander Calder
Jed Perl makes the case that Calder was both an avant-gardist and a populist.
Art
The Violent Forms of Alexander Calder And Cady Noland
The dialogue among four works — two by each artist — suggests a dissonant string quartet as each piece asserts its distinctive timbre and range.
Art
Lisa Sigal’s Cardboard Utopia
In Sigal’s work, seemingly solid things fall apart, dissolve or otherwise evanesce, and fugitive forms gain substance.
Art
Judith Bernstein's Horror Show
There may be no artist in America better equipped to express the perversity of the Trump administration than Bernstein.
Performance
A Performance Digs Into the Family History on a Found 1950s Wire Recorder
Say Something Bunny! is a live documentary that excavates the found audio of a 1950s family, and considers what makes these mundane moments compelling.
News
Beijing's Campaign to Level "Illegal Structures" Displaces Migrants, Threatens Artists
The municipal government is carrying out mass evictions as it prepares to level some 430 million square feet of illegal housing.
Art
The Politics of Representing Landscapes
Unsettled, an exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art, in Reno, explores how artists have interpreted the dramatic landscapes of the western edge of the American continents.
Announcement
Liquitex Congratulates the 2017-2018 Research Residency Program Artists
Participating artists include Daniel Mantilla, Kristy Hughes, Micah Wood, Erik Parra, KOAK, Woody Othello, Tschabalala Self, Shara Hughes, and Patrick Brennan.