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Sources of Harm: Notes on the Alternative Artworld
Within and beyond the American artworld, the politics of race have assumed a central position this year with a degree of ugliness that feels particularly virulent.
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Finding More than Fashion in the Legacy of Nigerian Photographer J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere
When photographer J. D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere passed away this February, he left behind an archive of over 10,000 photographs of his home country Nigeria.
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Nick Cave on the Artist's Responsibility
“I began thinking more about myself as an artist with a civic responsibility,” said artist Nick Cave to Mass MoCA curator Denise Markonish during a conversation last Friday evening at Jack Shainman Gallery.
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Learning Omaha: The Impossibility of Place (Part 4)
I’m home in Brooklyn now — I’ve been back for about three weeks. As the Department of Local Affairs starts up in Bed-Stuy, where I’m the artist in residence for the Laundromat Project, I’ve been thinking about different ways to frame and understand my summer.
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Soldiers' Bedrooms Become Makeshift Memorials
Tomorrow, New Yorkers will flock to the newly opened National September 11 Memorial & Museum in lower Manhattan to remember the nearly 3,000 lives that were lost on that day.
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Pawel Althamer's Family Secrets
BERLIN — Here in northern Europe the leaves are turning colors at an alarming rate. In the US, Labor Day came and went. But in Greece it’s still summer-summer — meaning there’s still time to visit the island of Hydra and see Polish artist Pawel Althamer’s rather anti-spectacular exhibition at the De
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Making Aging Livable: New York's Senior Center Artists-in-Residence Program
"There is a huge boom in the elderly population, not just in New York City but everywhere — we're all living longer," Kristin Sakoda said by way of introducing the importance of programs that address the "cultural, social, and economic life" of the aged.
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Exposing the Blood and Guts of Hollywood’s Teen Girl Fantasy
LOS ANGELES — Laura Parnes’s four-disk video series Blood and Guts in Hollywood exposes the idealized teenage dream for what it is: A boring, vapid fantasy of "love" that is marketed and sold to an audience of young dreamers searching for their soulmate in the illusions of silver screens and false i
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Governors Island Art Fair Lodges in New York Harbor's Military Ruins for the Month
Among peeling paint and creaking floors, the Governors Island Art Fair returned this past weekend to the former military homes of Colonels Row out in the New York Harbor.
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A Documentary for the Witch of Kings Cross, Australia's Persecuted Occult Artist
Filmmaker Sonia Bible considers Rosaleen Norton "the most persecuted artist in Australian history." With a new documentary, she's hoping to set a more accurate record of the life of woman who in the 1940s and 50s scandalized the country with her occult art, and bold sexuality.
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ArtRx LA
This week, we have a seldom seen documentary starring LA itself, early digital art from the 1960s, the last chance to see proto-PoMo painter John Altoon's LACMA retrospective, and lots more.
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Making Sense of the Legal Battle Over Vivian Maier’s Artworks
A legal battle has ensued over who has legal rights to an artist’s photographic negatives.