Interview
William Pope.L on "Acting a Fool" and Alternative Futures
Chicago-based artist William Pope.L works in a variety of mediums, including painting, spoken word, installation, and performance, to challenge ideas of race and social stereotypes.
Pope.L
Art
Deconstructing an Artist's Dubious Claim
PHILADELPHIA — When I first saw William Pope.L’s “Claim” (2009), I was intrigued by its emphatic presence and endless detail. Created for the exhibition Ruffneck Constructivists at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, “Claim” is an enormous wall, about a foot thick, 3
Art
The Radical Boundaries of African-American Performance
“Be African-American. Be very African American.” Thus reads a typed instruction on an otherwise blank piece of paper sent by veteran performance artist William Pope.L to Clifford Owens as part of Anthology, the latter’s crowd-sourced performance project staged last year at MoMA PS1.
Art
All the Art That's Fit to Print
It’s not clear who scooped whom, but there are two gallery shows now on view in New York that examine the relationship between art and the newspaper.
Test Older Posts
Do You Know What It Means To Dream About New Orleans?
By the ordinary way of reckoning such things, there are considerably fewer artists participating in this year's Prospect.2 biennial in New Orleans than in the event's first iteration three years ago. But if artist and provocateur William Pope.L's piece for the exhibition turns out according to sched
Interview
Honoring US Freedoms Through Dissent: Interview with Dread Scott
The artist discusses his desire to engage, America’s relationship to freedom of expression today, nationalism, and the lack of critical discourse around his work.