Interview

Interview

For Gerald Williams, a Co-Founder of AfriCOBRA, Transnational Black Aesthetics Are as Relevant as Ever

Gerald Williams has lived in seven countries and five different states within the US, but his artistic roots are here on Chicago’s south side, the birthplace of AfriCOBRA, of which he was a member.

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Anti-Gentrification Activists Protest Laura Owens Exhibition at the Whitney Museum

An alliance of activists from Los Angeles and New York highlighted the role of the artist and her dealer, Gavin Brown, in artwashing the gentrification of working-class neighborhoods.

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From Friendship to Marriage, a 30-Year Dialogue Between Two Photographers

Slant Rhymes, a new collaborative book by the photographers Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, amounts to a “long, elliptical, unfinished love poem.”

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After the Northern California Wildfires, an Artist Pieces Together a Life

A photographer lost her home and studio in the Atlas fire; now she is taking stock of the future and making work with remnants she salvaged from the ashes.

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Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait, a Conversation with Curator Deborah Wye

Wye provides an expert overview not only of Bourgeois's prints and artist’s books, but her work as a whole.

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Curator Nato Thompson on Politics and the State of Social Practice Art

The moderator of an upcoming conversation on art and dissent at the Hirshhorn Museum, Thompson talks about the changing art world.

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A Cinematographer’s Documentary About Making Documentaries

In Cameraperson, documentary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson turns the lens back on her own experiences working on films.

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Carolee Schneemann on Five Decades of Meat, Harnesses, and Innovation

In which Schneemann discusses rejecting academic language, reveling in flesh, how any respectable gallery needs a "token cunt," and, naturally, cats.

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Beer with a Painter: Tom Uttech

Uttech tells stories through the metaphoric possibilities of paint.

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Julie Mehretu Talks Music, Manifest Destiny, and Her Massive Mural for SFMOMA

Reflecting on “HOWL, eon (I, II),” her new commission for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Julie Mehretu talks about working at a huge scale, how live music affects her process, and how the 2016 election impacted her work.

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Why Patti Smith Writes

In her latest book, the iconic writer and musician examines belief, friendship, mentorship, and what drives her to make art.

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Reflecting on a Family Tragedy, an Artist Looks at Aleppo

An interview with artist Christine Gedeon about her current exhibition explores her personal history in Aleppo and a particularly painful family story.