...similar convulsions, with movements like pop art, land art, performance art, Fluxus, feminist art, and institutional criticism, not to mention the myriad of art collectives in Latin American and Eastern...
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Alternative Economies of Art and Politics: An Interview with Gabriel Rockhill and Nato Thompson
Writing about art and politics often falls into one of two camps. On the one hand, there are those who espouse “art for art’s sake,” arguing that art is a...
The Art of Intelligence
...but also to the “artistic” and “artificial” alike. In the art of computer science, are computer programs and algorithms then artistic objects that mimic nature? And if those objects are...
“The Political Body”: Radical Women and Latin American Art
...The two biggest mediums in this show are photography and video art. There is a reason for that. There isn’t a huge art historical tradition assigned to video art. Photography...
Art, Protest, Riot
...delightful Occupy-inspired Tidal magazine—in his instructive if sometimes arcane Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition. This new era of “strike art,” or art as a means to political...
Gordon Syron and the Art of the Invasion
...was featured in Sydney’s 1984 Koori Art exhibition, the first major display of what has come to be called the Urban Aboriginal arts movement. Syron had been out of prison...
The Art of Subways
...approached the integration of art into mass transit in radically different ways. In London, for example, elevating the standard of public art was an integral part of the development of...
Public Thinker: Frances Negrón-Muntaner on Puerto Rico, Art, and Decolonial Joy
Frances Negrón-Muntaner is an innovative and multimodal thinker and artist, and a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, with interests in Latinx, Caribbean, and decolonial art and...
Roberto Calasso and the Irresistible Art of the Publisher
...Brahma, Artemis, Indra, Agni, and all their kind. As with Emerson, Calasso is full of sharp advice and insights. Publishing “has always involved prestige.” It is “a dangerous art since...
The Price of Great Art
In her memoir, Sally Mann cites a saying: when an asshole makes good art, he is remembered as an asshole who made good art, but when an asshole makes bad...
The Art of (Not Forgetting) War
Many of the images in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibit World War I and the Visual Arts depict the war in such violent detail that their authors were...
Durham and the Art of Cool
...Bimbe this past year was held in the gravel parking lot of an outskirts park on the same weekend as Moogfest. Art of Cool features mostly black artists and audiences,...
Carolee Schneemann’s Unforgivable Art
...base material recombined in Meat System I, have become touchstones for generations of artists, particularly younger feminist artists. Karen Finley, Cindy Sherman, Tracey Emin, and Marina Abramović, not to mention...
“The Breath of Life”: Sheila Heti on Art, Loss, and Immortality
...(SO): Early on in Pure Colour, an old art professor muses: “What is art but the act of infusing matter with the breath of God?” I wonder, is this what...
Diane Arbus and the Power of Cruel Art
...ignore, disdain, or recoil from? Someone, Arthur Lubow’s new biography of Arbus tells us, who hardly had any defenses around herself. Many artists lead boring lives, and many artist biographies...
Art and Culture in Schorske’s Century
...offerings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, the Museum of Modern Art, and the city’s flourishing galleries, including those that represented the early...
In the Age of Artpocalypse: Beauty and Damage on TV
...copies of largely modernist or contemporary art (is that Jeff Koons’s balloon puppy?) made out of glass. The vulnerability of these objects has evidently been part of the point of...
“There Are Black People in the Future”: An Interview with Artist Alisha B. Wormsley
Keisha N. Blain (KNB): What made you decide to become an artist? What would you say is your role as an artist in today’s society? Alisha B. Wormsley (ABW):...
In Fez: The Art-Dealer’s Dar
...salesman at Ali’s Art Gallery, also known as Dar (house) Benhayoune. Located in Fez’s medina—one of the best preserved medieval cities in the Islamic world—and reachable only by foot, this...
The Art of Care: Susannah Cahalan on Madness, Diagnosis, and COVID-19
...that you aren’t reimbursed for by insurance companies and you can’t really quantify or study, and so it’s not respected. But it’s the art of clinical care. That art of...