An American post-conceptual artist, writer and theorist, who splits his time between Los Angeles and Berlin, Warren Neidich has been exploring scientific and philosophical ideas in his art for the past 30 years. Widely published and exhibited Neidich works in a variety of media-from photography, video and painting to Internet downloads, noise installations [...]
Museum of Sex - New York
By Taliesin Thomas
I have long admired the lusty photographer Arākī (Nobuyoshi Araki, b. 1940) for his blatant erotica, yet in the wake of recent controversies lighting up the media and exposing deplorable male behaviors toward women, I had to reconsider my Araki affinity during a recent visit to [...]
Red Bull Arts New York - New York
Curated by Max Wolf and Carlo McCormick
By Taliesin Thomas
The artist known as Rammellzee-stylized RAMM:ΣLL:ZΣΣ; written RAMM:ELL:ZEE; pronounced “Ram: Ell: Zee”-left a fantastical legacy of art, one that has been attracting greater notice in recent years. “RAMMΣLLZΣΣ: Racing for Thunder” at Red Bull Arts New York brought together [...]
Shirley Fiterman Art Center - New York
Curated by Kim Power and Melanie Vote
By Peter Drake
“Natural Proclivities” represents creative responses to nature, “from growth to decay.” That’s a tall order, but this show delivers, and then some. Most artists who address nature in their work fall on one side of this spectrum [...]
Various venues - Dakar, Senegal
By Nevdon Jamgochian
Dak’Art, in Dakar Senegal, is the biggest, arguably the first, and the longest-running biennale in Africa. The 2018 exhibition that ran from May 3rd to June 2nd was a glorious mess. It featured a jumble of art worth seeing with some wonderful surprises but still, it was [...]
Laney Contemporary Fine Art - Savannah, Ga.
By Lisa Jaye Young
Todd Schroeder’s most recent exhibition of paintings at LANEY Contemporary Fine Art in Savannah is aptly named “TRANCE.” Paintings on canvas, newsprint and steel arrest the viewer in a visual and intellectual abeyance or conscious limbo of meaning construction. Figure and ground are [...]
Various locations, Ipswich, England
By Jonathan Field
The inaugural Annual Ipswich Biennial is an assembly of artworks, exhibitions, workshops, films and talks that took place throughout July and August 2018 in Ipswich, England. Set up by artists, the project was intended to appeal to both a specialty audience and a broader, curious public. The strong [...]
Denver Art Museum
Curated by John P. Lukavic
By Jeff Siemers
Jeffrey Gibson’s exhibition “Like a Hammer” brings the topics of identity, time, race, heritage, popular culture and philosophical inquiry into play. The exhibition of approximately 57 works, curated by John P. Lukavic, the curator of Native Arts at the Denver Art Museum, integrates Gibson’s Choctaw [...]
I come to the garden alone
While the dew is still on the roses
And the voice I hear falling on my ear
The Son of God discloses.
And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own;
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.
He [...]
“Critique, etc.”
“…I had a teacher one whole summer who never told me/
anything and it was wonderful.”
Frank O’Hara
Hotel Particulier
From Lunch Poems, 1964.
By Craig Drennen
Let’s be clear. The art school critique is not just talk. It is a conversation that’s supposed to cause improvement. Mentors and peers talk about a student artist’s work to [...]
