Eric Holubow "Downstaging Uptown"; 2009; Uptown Theater; Chicago, IL; 33 in. x 60 in. Courtesy of Chicago Cultural Center. Walking through Chicago Cultural Center – past the Doric columns o...
L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A weekly column by Catherine Wagley Because NEA funding cuts recently prompted Art21.org to stage a telethon, because this is fundraising season (a number of ...
Leaving the crowds behind after the frenzied week of Frieze, I headed down to the New Museum after waiting for a month in anticipation to see some of my favorite artists show under one roof. Though t...
Spread from Paul Thek notebook #63, 1974; Courtesy Watermill Center Collection and Alexander and Bonin, New York; Photograph © Estate of George Paul Thek; Photograph Jörg Lohse As part of the Glasgow...
Last year, #Hashtags featured an essay by the Mexican-American artist and writer Robert Gomez on the relationship between online images of drug cartel violence and Aztec rituals, which we rerun today...
Welcome to HELP DESK, where I answer your queries about making, exhibiting, finding, marketing, buying, selling–or any other activity related to–contemporary art. Together, we’ll sort through some of...
Today from the DS Archives we venture not too far into the past to Sharon Lockhart’s exhibition of her film Lunch Break at the SF MoMA in 2011 and alert of of her new exhibition Double Tide, cu...
L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A weekly column by Catherine Wagley Hunter S Thompson and George McGovern during the 1972 Presidential Campaign. Photo: CSU Archive. Writer David Shields tell...
Today’s feature is brought to you by our friends at Beautiful/Decay. Read below to find a recently released artist interview with Los Angeles-based painter Justin John Greene. Los Angeles has a...
I used to have a secret garden. Even though it was technically communal (which slightly undermines the essence of secrecy) it was rarely visited by anyone and wildly overgrown. Especially in summer y...
40,000 bottle rockets make for a lot of noise and a lot of glare. Especially when they come hurtling toward your face. On April 7, 2012, artist Cai Guo-Qiang — known for his gunpowder drawings ...
There may not be two more recognizable names in the Art world (and hopefully beyond) than Duchamp and Warhol. At different points in art history, the work of these individuals radically changed the w...
Louise Bourgeois’ life is not just any open book – it more resembles a multi-volume anthology with pages torn out, chapters re-written, and notes cryptically hidden in the margins. While Bourge...
L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A weekly column by Catherine Wagley Michel Auder, Cat Stranglers, 2009. Courtesy Kayne Griffin Corcoran. I had a lazy Monday afternoon two weeks ago. A friend...
Installation view of Back to the Things Themselves (Lesley Punton & Judy Spark). Image courtesy of Lesley Punton. Back to the Things Themselves, on show at The Briggait, presents artworks by Lesl...
In the Shadow of the Hand and Back to the Things Themselves are two exhibitions presented as part of the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art that runs till 7 May 2012. The process of collabo...
Human animals have at least as many seasonal habits as our less verbal counterparts (ahem, other mammals). We stuff our faces to prepare for winter, sleepwalk all the way through “the dark season,” a...
In 2010 Martin Creed, along with Richard Wright and the artist team of Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth, were comissioned to make pieces to be exhibited in the Edinburgh Art Festival. Creed’s work...
Tatsuyo Miyajima, Death Clock (detail) 500 black and white framed photographs, 3 LCD screens, 3 programmed Mac minis Image courtesy the artist and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia © the artis...
L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A weekly column by Catherine Wagley Dasha Shishkin, "S INT N HO," installation view, 2012. Courtesy Suanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. Rain in ...
David Shrigley, How are you feeling today? (2012), billboard, 25 x 75 feet, courtesy of Anton Kern Gallery Running alongside Tenth Avenue for approximately twenty blocks in Chelsea, The High Line has...
As part of our ongoing partnership with Art Practical, Daily Serving is sharing Patricia Maloney’s recent interview with photographer Rineke Dijkstra. Rineke Dijkstra. Montemor, Portugal, May 1, 1994...
Reception 7, 2011. Digital c-print. Edition of 3 + 2 AP. 8 x 12 inches. Image courtesy of the artist and Mark Moore Gallery. What makes a tale “twice told”? For Nathaniel Hawthorne, who published a c...
Even if you don’t think that Cindy Sherman is one of the most important contemporary artists, there is no denying that she is certainly one of the most referenced both in criticism and and in a...
Zachary Buchner, Untitled (JYS 08), 2012. Plaster, acrylic, and tempera on canvas. Courtesy of Andrew Rafacz Looking at Zachary Buchner’s one-man show of mixed media plaster paintings at Andrew Rafac...
L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A weekly column by Catherine Wagley James Lee Byars, "La figura de la pregunta," 1986. Unless you really take Lent seriously, and I don’t kno...
Cities are filled with innumerable details and a foreign land can be barrage of data. In Barcelona, on a walk, I drift from details of leafy building ornamentation to blank walls of flaking stucco, s...
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