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Photographing the State of the Environment in the 1970s
Back in the 1970s, the Environmental Protection Agency sent over 70 photographers to all 50 states in order to document the environmental concerns of the regions.
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Invaluable Grossmalerman Tips on Art Openings
You know, speaking of the Fall Openings Season, students often ask me whether there is any particular etiquette regarding how an artist should behave at openings.
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Zhang Huan's Painterly Buddhism
Zhang Huan’s new exhibition at Pace Gallery, his first since 2010, revels in the artist's newfound love of lush dollops of creamy oil paint.
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Films in 60 Seconds: Just Another Modern Monday
On Monday, September 30, the Museum of Modern Art opened another season of its Modern Monday series with a selection of screenings from the recently defunct One Minute Film Fest.
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Yarn Bombing ArtPrize
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — At this year's ArtPrize, Grand Rapids-based Collective Wings organized the Division Fibers Yarn Bomb project on Division Street, one of the most trafficked areas of the city.
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Debating the Manifesta 10 Boycott in Russia
Manifesta 10, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art scheduled to open in the summer of 2014 at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, has received its fair share of publicity these last several weeks.
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'The Big Chill,' Thirty Years After the Fact
Sure, there are some things about the movie I don’t like. For instance, there’s that scene where Richard, Karen’s square of a husband, is apparently eating a mayonnaise sandwich.
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SITE:Lab Raises the Bar for ArtPrize
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — In a smaller city like Grand Rapids, where the cost of living is far lower than American art centers like New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, there can be more curatorial opportunities — if one plays their cards right.
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At ArtPrize, What the F is "Art"?
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — Grand Rapids is a two hour drive due west of the state’s bankruptcy carnival that is Detroit, the hometown of President Gerald R. Ford, and the first city in the U.S. to add fluoride to its drinking water. It is an easy-to-visit city located on the banks of the Grand River w
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Taking Account of Hard-edge Abstraction
The Graham gallery on the Upper East Side of Manhattan has an edifying show titled Against Nature: Hard Edge Abstraction. The exhibition, on view until October 12, features more than 30 artworks by 20 different artists.
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Matthew Day Jackson: Too Big, Too Failed
Matthew Day Jackson’s Something Ancient, Something New, Something Stolen, Something Blue presents, as its very title suggests, a confused medley of disconnected work. If in time the exhibition isn’t simply forgotten, it will surely serve to demonstrate the ills of over-production, and the hubris of
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Art Rx
This week, Chris Burden lands at the New Museum, Dutch artist Mark Manders speaks about public art, one museum tries to rekindle the radical nature of Manhattan's Union Square, a major revitalized arts center opens in downtown Brooklyn … and much more …