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Just Desserts: Let Them Eat Cake, as Long as It’s Thiebaud
Caitin Freeman’s real-life interpretation of Wayne Thiebaud’s lithograph Chocolate Cake, 1971. CLAY MCLACHLAN In 2000, as a photography student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Caitlin...
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Light at the End of the Turrell
When architect Frank Lloyd Wright wrote to arts patron Hilla Rebay in 1944, he described his vision for the design of New York’s Guggenheim Museum as a terraced pyramid of successively expanding...
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Feher Play
Blossom, 2008, extruded polystyrene.JASON MANDELLA Although sculptor Tony Feher was always creative, tinkering with objects in his bedroom as a kid and contriving zany flower arrangements under his...
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Meet the Bruces: High Quality Comes to Brooklyn Museum
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Raft of the Medusa, 2004. COURTESY THE ARTISTS/PRIVATE COLLECTION. Democratic and even bohemian in their practice, the five anonymous members of the Brooklyn-based...
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Bringing the Bauhaus Legacy to Utah
“I think of myself as an explorer of the visual world, seeking to make connections between poetry and mathematics, nature and the constructed environment,” says Anna Campbell Bliss. Though her name is...
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You Can ‘Do It’
“Tear out this page while listening attentively . . . crumple the page into a small ball,” read Christian Marclay’s directions for a do-it-yourself artwork. “Save the ball(s)/ discard the book.”...
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Kara Walker’s Porgy & Bess Libretto
Sometime in 2011, while the opera Porgy and Bess was in rehearsals for a Broadway revival, Kara Walker gave herself an assignment. Her friend Alicia Hall Moran had been cast as Bess, and Walker decided...
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The Stitched, Collaged and Chillingly Violent Female Warriors of Artist...
In Elektra KB’s Theocratic Republic of Gaia, a brainwashed army of genderless humanoids struggles to quash a guerrilla uprising led by a troupe of seditious dancing warriors. Bare breasted and tutu...
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Art-Making vs. Motherhood, and Other Creative Conundrums
After Sharon Louden graduated with an M.F.A. from Yale in 1991, she moved to Brooklyn, took a job as an administrative assistant, and found herself buried under debt and struggling to make rent, with...
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Where the Moving Image Meets the Still Life
Trisha Baga shot for in her studio. CAROLINE PETTERS FOR ARTNEWSTo prepare for a solo exhibition last summer at Société Berlin, 28-year-old Trisha Baga showed up with her laptop, a few hard drives...
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