Interview
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.
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A Filmmaker Investigates the Racially Charged Murder His Great-Grandfather Committed
Travis Wilkerson speaks about his film Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?, which traces his great-grandfather's killing of an unarmed African-American man.
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RZA and Mustafa Shaikh on the Asian Art that Inspired Their Clothing Line
Last week, RZA and Mustafa Shaikh celebrated the fall line of their fashion label 36 Chambers at the Asian Art Museum, where they saw an exhibition that influenced their designs.
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“A Year of Vomiting Color”: Sean Price Williams on Cinematography
Williams talks about his relationship to cinematography, including his latest work in Thirst Street, the truest visual smorgasbord of all.
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Cobbling a Movie Together from Surveillance Footage
Artist Xu Bing's first feature film Dragonfly Eyes tells a story of love and obsession through footage culled entirely from videos uploaded to Chinese streaming sites.
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Unmasking a Female Luchador Serial Killer and Studying “Pigmentocracy” in Mexico
Feminist academic Susana Vargas discusses the visualization of machismo, sexism, race, and class in Mexico.
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"Censorship Is Always Arbitrary": An Interview with an Art Critic in Singapore
Weng-Choy Lee, president of the Singapore section of the International Association of Art Critics, discusses the country's complexities, the evils of capitalism, and the relevance of Foucault.
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Beer with a Painter: Suzanne Joelson and Gary Stephan
An artist couple talks about paintings with a punch line and a street full of rats.
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Arto Lindsay Remembers Hélio Oiticica
The guitarist of the No Wave band DNA talks about the 1970s in Downtown New York and his friend Hélio Oiticica, whose retrospective is now at the Whitney Museum.