Popular Articles This Week
Armory Arts Week Wrap-Up
03/07 |
Kyle DeWoody
Kyle DeWoody tracks down highlights from The Armory Show and the surrounding fairs, parties, and openings. A ballet performance in a fair booth, a small taxidermy sparrow in the corner, and why food is the savior of all fair-goers.
Meet the Class of 2011
04/26 |
Pauline Eiferman
It’s that time of the year again. Another generation of artists are emerging from MFA programs, with fresh talent and ideas on display across the country in the final thesis exhibitions. Here are the highlights from some of the best art schools in the country.
Either/And
04/22 |
Matt Fisher
Fabienne Lasserre's elliptical sculptures, which mix high-minded concepts with a scruffy process, attain a fairly uncommon balance: they are serious but not stuffy, intuitive while being systematic, and referential without being appropriative. Overall they suggest a pretty nice way of being in the world - relaxed, curious, earnest, and good-natured.
Non-Profit: The Rema Hort Mann Foundation
03/21 |
Cassandra Young
Both Susan and Michael have developed their personal tastes for over twenty-five years, collecting installation, video, painting, and sculpture by some of the world’s most intriguing contemporary artists.
Language, Culture, and Politics
04/18 |
Nat Trotman
Curator Nat Trotman talks about his Guggenheim exhibition Found in Translation. The artists are young, the material sometimes topical and charged: Palestinian artist Sharif Waked responds to videos made by Islamic suicide bombers, and Sharon Hayes stages enigmatic, one-woman protests in cities around the world.
The 54th Venice Biennale: And the Winner Is...
06/06 |
Laura Gonzalez
The results are in for the 54th Venice Biennale’s award recipients: a controversial German pavilion, Christian Marclay's runaway hit, a promising young British artist, and more.
Global Exhibition Highlights
06/10 |
Fahmida Alam
In this week’s global exhibition highlights, we turn our attention to India’s expanding art market by celebrating the Seventh Annual Colours of Life exhibition, which includes over 130 Indian artists. A show of Pakistani contemporary miniatures in Tokyo includes Imran Qureshi, who recently impressed us with his installation at the Sharjah Biennial.
On Our Walls
02/27 |
John Monteith
Artlog's inaugural exhibition showcases Brooklyn-based artist John Monteith, who uses photographic negatives of architecture as the basis for his paintings on layered drafting film.
Monday and Tuesday in Armory Arts Week
03/02 |
Kyle DeWoody
Kyle DeWoody recounts how she began Armory Arts Week, including a show at the top of Times Square, a mass of dripping cookie dough, and the great-grandson of Henri Matisse.
Support the Arts: Non-Profits and Museums
11/29
In honor of the holiday season, last week we celebrated artists to be thankful for in 2011. This week, we caught up with directors and curators from a few of our favorite non-profits and museums to ask what they have been thankful for this year, as well as what our readers can do to give back to the cause.
After Twenty-Five Years, a Glorious Return to the Art World
04/11 |
Julie Novakoff
Albert Contreras was a highly regarded minimalist painter in the ‘60s and early ’70s before he shut down his studio in Sweden and took up blue-collar work for the city of Santa Monica, California, driving garbage trucks and operating heavy equipment. Now he’s back in the studio and working in fast forward to make up for lost time.
Latest from the Middle East
02/21 |
Pia Copper
New Middle East exhibitions, including Niyaz Azadkhah's videos of women clothed in chadors and fiddling with prayer beads, pole dancing, or buying fancy lingerie in underground markets.
