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Copy That!

Beauty Is in the Streets

by Joy Garnett | Apr 29, 2015

Copy That!

Beauty Is in the Streets

by Joy Garnett | Apr 29, 2015

Walking the city streets offers the unexpected. I find interesting things, mostly garbage, some of it recently thrown away. My discoveries come in two parts: first, the reaction of surprise, …

The Walker Curates the News: 04.27.15

by Walker Art Center | Apr 27, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 04.27.15

by Walker Art Center | Apr 27, 2015

Is arts writing seeing a generational shift akin to the Post-Internet generation in art? Or do we need a new generation of writers to face new topics and aesthetics? Andreas …

The Zone

by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme | Apr 22, 2015

The Zone

by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme | Apr 22, 2015

The Zone is an ongoing research project that has different extensions; previously it has been shown as a multiscreen video and sound installation at the New Art Exchange and the …

The Walker Curates the News: 04.20.15

by Walker Art Center | Apr 20, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 04.20.15

by Walker Art Center | Apr 20, 2015

Holographic activists marched through the streets of Madrid recently in protest of a new law aimed at preventing Spanish citizens from demonstrating against Congress. “Our protest with holograms is ironic,” …

Art21 Extended Play

Anarchic Color in Katharina Grosse’s Paintings

by Ian Forster | Apr 17, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Anarchic Color in Katharina Grosse’s Paintings

by Ian Forster | Apr 17, 2015

“Painting is one of the ways to actually make [my thoughts] visible and understandable for myself” —Katharina Grosse Today’s ART21 Exclusive shows Katharina Grosse in her studio and at Johann König Gallery (both …

New Kids on the Block

The Archives of Kameelah Rasheed

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Apr 15, 2015

New Kids on the Block

The Archives of Kameelah Rasheed

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Apr 15, 2015

The artist Kameelah Rasheed was twelve years old in 1998, when her family—mother, father, and four brothers—had lost their home. The value of land in northern California near East Palo …

The Walker Curates the News: 04.13.15

by Walker Art Center | Apr 13, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 04.13.15

by Walker Art Center | Apr 13, 2015

In a recent interview, Chinese multimedia artist Cao Fei reflects on life in Beijing, motherhood, censorship, and the trends that she has observed in the art created by new Chinese …

Audible Afterimages

by John McKissick | Apr 8, 2015

Audible Afterimages

by John McKissick | Apr 8, 2015

Collapse: Abandoned to the indifference of physical nature, any neglected artifact disintegrates. Places too are social artifacts, architectural masses sustained in space by forms of life. When customs falter or …

The Walker Curates the News: 04.06.15

by Walker Art Center | Apr 6, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 04.06.15

by Walker Art Center | Apr 6, 2015

A “messy, wild, irreverent joy,” Trenton Doyle Hancock’s traveling retrospective at the Studio Museum Harlem, Skin and Bones, pulls viewers into the artist’s surreal imagination and traces the evolution of his …

Art21 New York Close Up

Rashid Johnson Keeps His Cool

by Nick Ravich | Apr 3, 2015

Art21 New York Close Up

Rashid Johnson Keeps His Cool

by Nick Ravich | Apr 3, 2015

In a new ART21 “New York Close Up” film, artist Rashid Johnson charts a decade-long aesthetic and professional development from his early portrait photographs to his later conceptually-based sculptures.

Being Protected

by Abigail Levine | Apr 1, 2015

Being Protected

by Abigail Levine | Apr 1, 2015

During the spring of 2010, I spent several hours each day, usually unclothed, either standing, sitting, lying, or perching on a bicycle seat in the sixth-floor galleries of the Museum …