“I like to disappear; and I do this for my own pleasure of existence.“
Martin Soto Climent, who lives and works in Mexico City, grew up in the countryside outside the suburbs of that burgeoning metropolis. His parents and uncles were successful as industrial designers, but less so as artists. Thus, art was introduced [...]
If we talk about art creativity in Eastern Europe, which until recently was relatively isolated from the world, as being a separate phenomenon, we risk pushing it even further into the world of otherness. …But we would be risking more if we simply forgot about its otherness and presented ourselves-in the spirit of [...]
By Stephen Knudsen
I was at Lois Dodd’s 60-year retrospective at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art the August day I got the news that critic Robert Hughes had passed away at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, New York. To get this news amidst paintings in a museum was like being in the sanctum [...]
By Paco Barragán
So you should always have a product that‘s not just “you.” An actress should count up her plays and movies and a model should count up her photographs and a writer should count up his words and an artist should count up his pictures so you always know exactly what you‘re [...]
By Michele Robecchi
Milan Kundera’s recent request to insert a clause in his agreements to prevent the digital publication of his novels has predictably generated both enthusiastic and perplexed responses, drawing a deeper furrow between those who advocate the uniqueness of the book as object and those who propagate its electronic version [...]
Although his investigations have taken him into various corners of contemporary society, documentary filmmaker, writer and critic Ben Lewis is most well known within the art world for his scrutiny of the art market and its excesses. In a series of videos and articles posted on his websites benlewis.tv and artsafari.tv, Lewis has [...]
By Andrew Hetherington
Around the world, artists and other creatives are using crowdfunding websites as a new way to engage with their audiences and bypass some of the traditional ways of sourcing funding.
Whether it’s Kickstarter1 in America, Pozible2 in Australia, Fund it3 in Ireland or any of the increasingly successful European websites, crowdfunding is [...]
By Toke Lykkeberg
“The moment the artist thinks of money, he loses his sense of beauty,”1 wrote Enlightenment thinker Denis Diderot in 1781. And young British artist Damien Hirst reiterated in 2006: “Sometimes, if a piece is worth too much money, you can’t see the art on the wall for the dollar signs.”2 The [...]
By Stephen Knudsen
The first museum retrospective for artist Rashid Johnson-an exhibition originating at MCA Chicago this summer and now at the Miami Art Museum-is refreshing the concept of post-black art, a term that has been mulled over by academics for two decades.1
Johnson lectured on his retrospective, “Message to Our Folks,” for a gathering [...]
Last September, an artwork was sent into eternity. The artwork is an ultra-archival disc, micro-etched with 100 photographs and encased in a gold-plated shell; eternity was reached thanks to the communications satellite EchoStar XVI, launched from Kazakhstan into geostationary orbit with the disc mounted to its anti-earth deck. EchoStar XVI will broadcast more [...]
