“Because no work of art exists outside the linked sequences that connect every man-made object since the remotest antiquity, every thing has a unique position in that system. This position is marked by coordinates of place, age and sequence. The age of an object has not only the customary absolute value in years [...]
The island6 Art Center is a non-profit studio and gallery space located in Shanghai’s M50 art district, an abandoned industrial space on the Suzhou Creek that now includes more than 100 studios and galleries. Referring to themselves as Liu Dao (a Pinyin phrase meaning “island number 6″), the artists of the island6 collective [...]
By Paco Barragán
First capitalism took over pop culture, and now it has taken hold after years of high art. Defining culture can be very complex and contradictory (William Raymond’s definition is still valid), so I depart from an expanded notion that includes both high and low artistic expressions.
If we accept that pre-modern times [...]
By Stephen Knudsen
Anyone following the long career of New Yorker Nicole Eisenman is familiar with the artist’s sociological paintings cast with farmers, fools, fantasizers, clowns, coaches, zoomorphs, oglers, artists, bohemians, beer drinkers, sloggers, swimmers, gropers, tea-partiers, sailors, girls, superheroes, birds, friends, mothers, monkeys, asses, nudes, fantasizers, cats, friends, paranormals, fanatics and stripped-bare maidens. [...]
By David Pagel
Overripe is one step away from rotten. When mature fruits and fresh vegetables pass their primes, they begin to stink, their once firm flesh going mushy, their skins withering, and their sweet juices pooling in puddles that become breeding grounds for insects, both filthy and annoying, before drying up and [...]
For artist Gregory Coates, the definition of painting is never given, and always up for review. Over the last couple of decades, Coates has adopted an ever-growing array of studio practices, embracing a wide range of materials and techniques more traditionally claimed by sculpture, assemblage, and installation. In the following interview, we spoke [...]
George Smith has long been a leader and innovator in North American education. Dr. Smith is the founder and president of the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA). Founded in 2007, IDSVA is the first and only school in the world to offer a PhD in philosophy for visual artists, [...]
By Michele Robecchi
With the sole exception of Spike Jonze’s Her and Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity, seven out of nine films in the running for Best Picture at the 86th Academy Awards in March 2013 were “based on a true story.” Whilst this event reinforced the perception of a film industry unable to create original [...]
David Humphrey is a New York-based painter who also writes art criticism. He received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, studied at the New York Studio School, and finished up with an MA from New York University. He’s received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize, NEA Fellowships and other awards [...]
By Heike Dempster
“According to What?” the Jasper Johns-inspired title of Ai Weiwei’s exhibition currently on view at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, is a question that runs threadlike through the artist’s work. The thought processes set in motion by this question provide a point of departure for the analysis and understanding of not [...]
