By Jeff Edwards
It seems like Ed Clark is finally getting a bit of the recognition he deserves. In early 2014, his bold poured-and-push-broomed paintings were the subject of “Ed Clark: Big Bang,” a retrospective at New York’s Tilton Gallery that also included a handful of artworks by Clark’s friends Donald Judd, Yayoi Kusama, [...]
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 [...]
Cuban-born artist Alexandre Arrechea makes beautifully crafted, deceptively whimsical works about the power that our social settings and communal practices have in shaping personal identity and collective experience. Over the last few years, his career has taken him around the world, where he has exhibited works for which context is often as important [...]
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 [...]
For over a decade, The Yes Men (Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno) have been engaged in an extended campaign
Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience. Edited by Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2008. 536 pages. ISBN 9780262042499
By Jeff Edwards
We live in the Biological Century, an era in which a staggering proliferation of new developments in bioscience and biotechnology has created the pressing need for clear critical thinking [...]
