By Michele Robecchi
Paul McCarthy is contemporary art marmite. Love him or hate him, it’s impossible to deny his influence and relevance. Yet, even according to many of his supporters, “The King, The Island, The Train, The House, The Ship,” his recent solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth and possibly one of the largest [...]
The Brooklyn-based artist Mickalene Thomas creates visually arresting works in which she often gives African-American women a starring role. Her large-scale paintings, collages, installations, photography and video work take on the popular portrayals and stereotypes of black femininity and boldly answer back to them using her keen eye to break limitations. Not surprisingly, [...]
By Michele Robecchi
Undisputable geniality and stunning longevity were two of the main ingredients that made Frank Lloyd Wright reach his legendary status, yet there was a time, in the mid-1920s, when the life of the man whose work would revolutionize architecture as we know it, seriously hit the skids. Self-exiled in Wisconsin, and [...]
By Barry Schwabsky
“Each writer creates his precursor,” wrote Jorge Luis Borges. “His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future”(365). Likewise with painters. And one reason why Melvin Martínez counts as a painter is that he is showing us, in a new way, why Jackson Pollock still matters. [...]
For over a decade, The Yes Men (Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno) have been engaged in an extended campaign
Nowadays political art is a fashionable label, and many practices want to present themselves as such. Art becomes a space for protest, but at the same time any critical power that it may have is co-opted in a kind of protective environment where everything can be said, but where everything is tightly controlled.
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Behind the Paris-based collective Société Réaliste, founded in 2004
By Paco Barragán
I remember reading Culture of Complaint by Robert Hughes sometime toward the end of the 90s.1 It’s still a very valid working title with an interesting perspective on American society by a still well-known Australian arts writer-his interviews on YouTube with Ronald Lauder and the Mugravi are a must see.
Witty, ironic, [...]
* All images are courtesy of the artist and Galerie Lausberg, Düsseldorf-Toronto-Miami.
Regine Schumann’s installations are much more than concrete art. Conceptualized as emotive spaces, Schumann’s color-filled light rooms provoke intense feelings of something otherworldly. A minimalist style affects everything from her choice of materials to the way she plays with form [...]
