Art
Doug Wheeler Builds a Horizon of Light
Coming from the deserts of New Mexico, where he lives in Sante Fe, Doug Wheeler’s visits to New York, seldom and auspicious, are greeted with the sort of awe usually reserved for mystics.
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Interview
Thank God It's Not Abstract: A Ridykeulous Interview
ST. LOUIS — Nicole Eisenman and A.L. Steiner’s current exhibition Readykeulous by Ridykeulous: This is What Liberation Feels Like™, at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, is a heady riot of neon, smut, Sharpie scribbles, editorial angst, lesbian supremacist propaganda, and impassioned ink-on-pape
Art
Kara Walker Lands in Oregon
EUGENE, Oregon — The Black Portlanders, a project initiated by Intisar Abioto that focuses on the black people of Portland documenting one another, recently posted an open letter asking for help raising $15,000 to keep alive their project.
Art
US Museums Acquire Nine Works by Robert Rauschenberg
Nine major works by Pop Art legend Robert Rauschenberg entered the collections of six major museums in the United States this month.
News
Cariou v. Prince Settled Out of Court
A settlement announced yesterday marks the end of the five-year legal saga between photographer Patrick Cariou and appropriation artist Richard Prince, the New York Times reported.
Opinion
Man Breaks Statue in Quest for Selfie
It's one thing for people to take selfies with works of art; it's another to climb on the art in order to get a photo and break it in the process.
Community
A View from the Easel
Studios in Boston, Brooklyn, Kansas City, Los Angeles, and Manhattan.
Art
Thinking About Art Practice and the Role of Compromise
What happens when an artist’s inclinations towards her/his work conflict with her/his ability to sell and keep making it?
Art
Sculptural Sorcery: Ian Pedigo's Assemblages of the Natural and Manufactured
Assembling pieces of the natural and manufactured worlds, Ian Pedigo constructs sculptural balances of disparate materials. Some of his newest creations are on view in his solo show Cosmopolitan Sleep Positions at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery on the Lower East Side.
Opinion
What's So Fundamental About Rem Koolhaas's Architecture Biennale
When the 14th la Biennale di Venezia International Architecture Exhibition announced that it had (finally) roped in world-renowned architect Rem Koolhaas as the director of the Architecture Sector to lead its ranks, the speculative — often skeptical — architecture crowd wore its mixed emotions on it
Art
Studio of Composer Charles Ives Preserved in Manhattan
Object by object, some 3,000 artifacts from the studio of composer Charles Ives have been reconstructed at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in Washington Heights. The replica of the studio he used in the final 40 years of his life even has a light box mimicking the Redding, Connecticut, view
Interview
Printing the Performative Object
Outside of his own performance art practice, which fluidly intersects with his life, Brian Getnick and artist/designer Tanya Rubbak collaboratively publish the LA-based performance art journal Native Strategies.