Mind His Beeswax: Wolfgang Laib Is Everywhere
Artist brings smell, warmth and light to museums, galleries in New York and D.C. Read More
View ArticleJust Desserts: Let Them Eat Cake, as Long as It’s Thiebaud
A book of sweet recipes inspired by Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, and more Read More
View ArticleLight at the End of the Turrell
In a three-part retrospective that spans the country, James Turrell will transform museum spaces with works composed of spatially disorienting ambient light Read More
View ArticleFeher Play
Tony Feher’s messages in bottles—along with a spectrum of works from the last 25 years—launch a traveling retrospective Read More
View ArticleMeet the Bruces: High Quality Comes to Brooklyn Museum
The collaborative tricksters Bruce High Quality Foundation offer love, chicanery, & more Read More
View ArticleBringing the Bauhaus Legacy to Utah
Documentary profiles artist and architect Anna Campbell Bliss Read More
View ArticleYou Can ‘Do It’
New book and projects expand Hans Ulrich Obrist's participatory-art movement Read More
View ArticleKara Walker’s Porgy & Bess Libretto
The artist's first lithographs depict the ill-fated lovers in the famous (and controversial) opera Read More
View ArticleThe Stitched, Collaged and Chillingly Violent Female Warriors of Artist...
Born in Odessa, raised in Colombia, and living in Brooklyn, Elektra KB is updating the concept of guerrilla girls for a new generation Read More
View ArticleArt-Making vs. Motherhood, and Other Creative Conundrums
Is your child eating croutons for breakfast while you finish a piece? Are you selling belongings on eBay to pay for art materials? Working artists talk about how they make a living Read More
View ArticleWhere the Moving Image Meets the Still Life
Inspired by America’s leftovers—old lamps, broken speakers, hot-sauce packets, and Al Gore’s monologues—Trisha Baga sets the physical and digital worlds in motion Read More
View ArticleJust 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...
View ArticleLight 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...
View ArticleFeher 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...
View ArticleMeet 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...
View ArticleBringing 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...
View ArticleYou 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.”...
View ArticleKara 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleArt-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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