Art
Laura Owens Teams Up with Cleveland Teens for a Playful Show on Time Travel
Though unequivocally a monographic show, Rerun is clearly the product of many (fresh and youthful) voices, much to its benefit.
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Test 2018 posts
Whitney Museum Launches Emoji Designed by Laura Owens
The new pack of 50 stickers is based on a series of ceramic sculptures Owens made based on the beloved facial icons.
Art
Painting as Total Environment
Laura Owens, Keltie Ferris, Rachel Rossin, and Trudy Benson are exploring hybrid paintings that rival sculpture in their tactility, illusion, and physical depth.
Art
Laura Owens and the Death of the Auteur
Owens’s mid-career works feel completely sterile, mainstream, and middlebrow — with just enough insider info to flatter the viewer who knows something about Roland Barthes.
In Brief
Laura Owens Responds to Anti-Gentrification Protests of Her Boyle Heights Gallery
In an extensive response to last week's protest at the Whitney Museum, the artist offered her take on the current situation in Boyle Heights.
Interview
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.
Art
Reviewing the Responses to MoMA's Divisive Painting Survey
As news of art fairs and Bjork took the spotlight earlier this month, I lingered on the Museum of Modern Art’s The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, up through early April.
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The Death of Painting: All-New, 2014 Edition
The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, the new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, prompted thoughts of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross’s five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance, though I’m not sure how much acceptance there is in the end.