Interview

Interview

"The World You’re Crafting Isn’t in a Vacuum": A Zimbabwean Comics Artist on Social Justice and Storytelling

Bill Masuku is fast becoming one of the most well-known comic artists in Zimbabwe.

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Beer with a Painter: Jennifer Coates

Coates’s recent work depicts food: spaghetti and meatballs, sprinkle cookies, and s’mores. Her work is about matter and viscosity, but it is also rooted in grid-like structures, repetitive mark-making, and very sophisticated paint handling.

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Goodbye to All That: Why Do Artists Reject the Art World?

Martin Herbert’s latest book is a collection of essays about 10 artists who play with the system, struggle against it, or walk away altogether.

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The Artist Who Put Kellyanne Conway in an Andrew Wyeth Painting

Some images just work, and you can definitely say that about Tim O'Brien's update of Andrew Wyeth's famous painting.

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“Everything I Do Has the Smell of Digital”: Lorna Mills on Her Art

The Canadian artist Lorna Mills talks about image circulation, digital ownership, and how she obsessively mines the internet for her art.

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The Queer Art that Helped Define Post-Blackness

In his collection of essays, Derek Conrad Murray explores questions of post-blackness by drawing on the artworks of Glenn Ligon, Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas, and Kalup Linzy.

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Collector Valeria Napoleone on the Need to Support Women Artists

On the occasion of publicly showing her private collection of work by women artists, Valeria Napoleone talks about why such a display is necessary.

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Beer with a Painter: Craig Stockwell

Painters who lived and exhibited in New England, like Jake Berthot and Porforio DiDonna, are highly represented. They, like Stockwell, have straddled the line between tough material abstraction, nature, and the figure.

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Envisioning an Art Museum on the Moon

The Museum of Contemporary Art on the Moon has drawn together a group of artists to create work for a speculative museum that might one day exist on the moon.

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Why an Apache Artist’s Photos Are Inextricable from His Activism

Standing Fox, a leader of the Apache Stronghold movement, talks about how activism plays an important part in his life as an Apache artist.

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Beer with a Painter: Tal R

Tal R talks about “watching” paintings — not just looking at them. It might be a language tic, but it also feels specific.

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Using Famous Paintings to Detect Early Signs of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s

A research team found that a mathematical technique, when applied to artworks, could detect signs of neurodegeneration in the artist.