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Finding Connections in the Montreal/Brooklyn Exchange
Part One in a series of posts on the Montreal leg of the continuing Montreal/Brooklyn, or Brooklyn/Montreal, exchange.
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Small Town Gay Community
CHICAGO — Johannesburg-based South African artist Sabelo Mlangeni's photographs depict a celebratory, positive, and campy-funny queer life in the countryside.
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Queer Art’s not Just About Gender — A Chicago Survey
CHICAGO — Just because you say art’s queer doesn’t mean it’s about depictions of dicks and vajayjays, man. Over the past few months, two large-scale exhibitions dealing with changing notions of what “queer art” even is have overflowed into Chicago’s art world.
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Being Odie in a Garfield World
LOS ANGELES — Audaciously exuberant, Odie, the lovable dog from Jim Davis’s Garfield comics, was a yellow-furred dream come true for any child of the 1980s. It was also, interestingly, artist Jim Drain’s emotional North Star when it came to his latest solo exhibition, Drain Expressions, at Los Angel
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A West Coast Press Turns 50
SAN FRANCISCO — The main focus of the de Young Museum, located in Golden Gate Park and given a big redesign by architects Herzog and De Meuron in 2005, is American art past and present, encompassing ancient art of all the Americas as well as art of the United States from the colonial era up to today
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Something Shared, Artissima Giornale #5
TURIN — Things are shared, and time exists only in the present tense. I wanted to journal about the movements surrounding Artissima, Torino’s international art fair, because I’m curious to think about how art can live or die depending on the conditions in which it is placed. Recently I've found glob
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An Art Space, a Kickstarter, and a Community
At the risk of generalizing, one might say that community spaces get short shrift in the art world. It's not entirely clear why, but most likely it has something to do with their lack of marketability, their focus on engaging people rather than money — and perhaps more specifically, people without m
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Ferris Bueller, Vodkamelons, and Other Youthful Follies
BERKELEY, California — Adam Parker Smith's new show Forever 21 at Ever Gold Gallery is an investigation of youthful aesthetics taken seriously.
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Can Lin Tianmiao Break Free of Gender?
The first survey of Chinese installation artist Lin Tianmiao at Asia Society, called Bound Unbound, could not have a more fitting title. The artist’s sartorial sculptures, grotesque bodies, and fibrous compositions illustrate an artist bound by cultural convention creating art unbound in technique a
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The Best of Chicago’s MDW Art Fair: Cat Taxidermy, Tarot, and Interactive Icebergs
CHICAGO — MDW is not an art fair focused on sales and bringing in big-name collectors. In fact, it’s quite the opposite.
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Art Rx
Our weekly Art Rx: Hurricane Sandy benefit edition. Spend your money and time buying and seeing art, and feel good about it.
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Gabriel Orozco Brings Beach Collecting to the Guggenheim, I-Spy Style
In a side gallery off the Guggenheim’s main spiral, it looks like a tide of water came and went, leaving behind piles of bricks, wood, and detritus ripped from their original contexts and tossed into disarray. It’s not unlike certain parts of the New York City area, post-Sandy. The difference is tha