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The Erotically Charged Technophilia of Cyberpunk Paintings
The late Cuban artist Agustin Fernandez created a gloomy, gritty body of works that imagine a hyper-sexed, electronic corporeality.
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Black-and-White Animation Made out of Tiny Pins
Created completely by hand, the analog process yields a warmth and idiosyncratic quality hard to reproduce with digital technology.
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The Clever Concrete Poetry of a Benedictine Monk
Dom Sylvester Houédard, friends with the beatniks, littered his texts with references to god and prayer, and had a peculiar sense of humor.
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Artists Teach You How To Make Collaborative Drawings, DIY Reliquaries, Read Tarot, and More
The third edition of the omnivorous BombPop!Up series of workshops and performances takes over the National Academy of Design.
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A Project Casts Artists and Their Mentors as Children and Parents
For Parent Project, Seamus Gallagher and two of his cohort at the College for Creative Studies created works by following the instructions of mentors and role models.
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Upending Clichés About Nationhood, Asylum, and Living Through War
An exhibition in Chiang Mai, Thailand contends with the pain and despair of life washed in economic disparity, genocide, war, and the complexities of nationhood.
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The History of Sign Painting in Los Angeles
Two Angeleno artists discuss the rich history of sign painting in this visually cacophonous metropolis.
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Required Reading
This week, Murakami and Kanye, museums confronting colonialism, André Leon Talley talks race, the Enlightenment's racism, winning a house in Detroit, Falz's This Is Nigeria, and more.
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A Sculptor Cuts an Uncanny Figure
Everything in the work of sculptor Sarah Peters is an act of reimagining and melding together disparate sources into something that becomes curiouser and curiouser.
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Terry Winters's Inspired Rejections
Winters’s painting technique argues against gestural abstraction’s sweeping structures and minimalism’s solid-color surfaces.
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Why I Draw Faces
For a while as a child I had a best friend. We did stupid and dangerous things together.
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John Moore's Fabricated Realities
"In paintings that resonate with post-industrial America, Moore rearranges the world."