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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, a show on LA's 100-year-old aqueduct opens, it's the last chance to see Helen Johnson's schizophrenic hanging canvases, there's a zine release party for photographer Tod Seelie, and more!
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Tijuana, LA, and Border Crossings with Contemporary Art
LOS ANGELES — “In the 1990s, after NAFTA, the border, and border art specifically, was viewed as a utopian thing, a hybrid of both cultures, the best of both worlds. A lot of the emblematic border art that we know now came from this school of thought, but anyone from Tijuana would know that these id
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Robert Irwin's Modern Ruin, Years in the Making, Set to Rise in West Texas
A couple of weeks ago, I went to 101 Spring Street, the former home and studio of Donald Judd, to hear about a new Robert Irwin project to be built at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas.
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ArtRx NYC
It's here again, and the art volk will be descending on New York for Armory Week.
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Tracing the Origins of San Francisco's Gentrification
You might call the South of Market area in San Francisco the cradle of gentrification.
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Teachable Moments from a Conference on Art and Education
Last month, ART21 hosted an intricately interdisciplinary affair: Creative Chemistries: Radical Practices for Art + Education, a conference designed to probe the intersections of art and education.
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Portraits of Prisoners in Gold Leaf and Tar
When artist Titus Kaphar began searching for his father's prison records in 2011, he found the mugshots of 99 other black, incarcerated men who shared his dad's first and last name.
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Bedlam's New Museum Looks Beyond Madness
The name Bedlam is so evocative of chaos and madness, the real history of one of the world's oldest institutions for the treatment of mental illness often gets detached from its public presence.
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"BitchCoin" Currency Challenges the Way We Buy Art
A new project from Sarah Meyohas and the Brooklyn-based Where gallery explores the future of art in a world where both art and the market are increasingly immaterial.
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Explosive Watercolors and Collages, Subtly Contained
Looking at Marcia Kure’s watercolors and collages, the word that comes to mind is “torque.”
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Quickly Aging Here: The 2015 Triennial
After six years and three installments, is the New Museum’s Triennial entering middle age? An odd question for an exhibition devoted to “early-career artists,” as the museum’s press release describes them.
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Dining with Contemporary Artists and Designers
What does your favorite artist like to eat for dinner?