Interview
On Curating, and Translating, Latin American Art
"In fact, it’s funny, Latin American art exhibits tend to bother the shit out of me. Partly because it’s my field."
Interview
Interview
Painting with Data: A Conversation with Lev Manovich
As big data has infiltrated our everyday lives, Lev Manovich and his collaborators have explored the data of everyday life as a window on social transformation.
Interview
Freestyling Animals and Signifying Rappers
LOS ANGELES — Behind every face there is a mask. In Ray Anthony Barrett’s solo exhibition Word is Bond at Diane Rosenstein Fine Arts in Hollywood, the artist investigates American cultural identities through the use of anthropomorphized masks.
Interview
MacArthur Grantee Rick Lowe on Art as Community
DALLAS — Vickery Meadow is the kind of place that makes the news for all the wrong reasons. An impoverished enclave for immigrants and refugees in Dallas, it has long been one of the city’s most violent neighborhoods.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: David Humphrey
What I hoped to get from talking to David Humphrey were answers. The images in his paintings are zany, raunchy, and wild: a girl in a lawn chair holding monkeys by their scalps; a woman absent-mindedly marking another woman’s buttocks with daubs of paint; cats sitting beside slices of white bread pa
Interview
Then and Now: A Conversation with Prospect.3's Franklin Sirmans
Franklin Sirmans, curator of contemporary art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), has replaced Cameron as artistic director for Prospect.3: Notes for Now, the biennial's latest installment. So there is a lot riding on Prospect.3, which opens on October 25 — especially for Sirmans, whose rol
Interview
An Art of Totems and Exorcisms
"Simply put — the church became a dangerous place — I had to leave."
Interview
ArtPrize Winner Anila Quayyum Agha Talks Sacred Spaces and Religion
Last Friday, Pakistani-American artist Anila Quayyum Agha won both the popular and juried vote at ArtPrize for her installation "Intersections." It was the first time in the history of the Grand Rapids-based competition that an artist reaped top honors in both categories.
Interview
How Much Will Artists Be Paid Under the New W.A.G.E. Certification Program?
Last Friday, Working Artists and the Greater Economy (aka W.A.G.E.) announced that they will be rolling out their new W.A.G.E. Certification program, which promises to be a "paradigm-shifting model for the remuneration of artistic labor." We had some questions for the organization.
Interview
The Radical Power of Classified Pop Music
Ever since Edward Snowden revealed the extent to which the NSA and others have encroached on our privacy, everyone from technologists, reporters, politicians, and voters have been engaging in an international debate around surveillance.
Interview
Upstate and Down with Pioneering Media Art
That vast, often vague, less metropolitan expanse that New Yorkers usually call “Upstate” has been a major force in the evolution of contemporary media art.
Interview
AA Bronson on Queer Collaborations, Shamanism, and Korean History
GWANGJU, South Korea — For the past several years, AA Bronson's work has drawn on the acute awareness of radical pedagogies and alternative economies that he developed as a member of the Canadian artists collective General Idea.