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Pupsie Cola and One Hundred Thousand Glowing Beacons

by Erik Benjamins | Oct 27, 2015

Pupsie Cola and One Hundred Thousand Glowing Beacons

by Erik Benjamins | Oct 27, 2015

  The Girard Wing at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe is louder than a New Mexican Rodeo. Two months ago, I was drawn into this place …

The Walker Curates the News 10.26.15

by Walker Art Center | Oct 26, 2015

The Walker Curates the News 10.26.15

by Walker Art Center | Oct 26, 2015

“Everything is awesome!” Or so goes The Lego Movie’s slogan, but Ai Weiwei is finding that’s not quite the case. In September, the Chinese artist was told that the toy …

Art21 Extended Play

Josiah McElheny Sees Potential in Painting

by Ian Forster | Oct 23, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Josiah McElheny Sees Potential in Painting

by Ian Forster | Oct 23, 2015

“Abstraction – in its potential hopefulness for imagining a different world or imagining a world that’s not absolutely apparent – can tie us together.” — Josiah McElheny Today’s ART21 Exclusive features …

Saya Woolfalk’s Happy People

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Oct 20, 2015

Saya Woolfalk’s Happy People

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Oct 20, 2015

In July 2015, when I encountered the installation by the New York–based artist Saya Woolfalk in the Disguise: Masks and Global African Art exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum, I felt like …

The Walker Curates the News: 10.19.15

by Walker Art Center | Oct 19, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 10.19.15

by Walker Art Center | Oct 19, 2015

“Even when artists of color are embraced by the canon,” says artist Rashid Johnson, “there is often a strict focus on a particular moment, rather than their career as a whole.” Such …

Long Live Catharsis

by Alex Huntsberger | Oct 13, 2015

Long Live Catharsis

by Alex Huntsberger | Oct 13, 2015

I haven’t cried since the summer before I went to college and broke up with my high-school girlfriend. And by cried, I mean like when your face starts uncontrollably heaving …

The Walker Curates the News: 10.12.15

by Walker Art Center | Oct 12, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 10.12.15

by Walker Art Center | Oct 12, 2015

The “unselfie,” writes the New York Times’s Sam Anderson on Alec Soth’s Instagram series of self-portraits obscured by snow, leaves, pixels, and the like, “documents and annihilates. What we most …

Elena Ferrante’s Bad Feelings

by Svetlana Kitto | Oct 6, 2015

Elena Ferrante’s Bad Feelings

by Svetlana Kitto | Oct 6, 2015

Recently, I was Tinder messaging with a manarchist type (white, bespectacled, etc.) whose profile read: “Looking for the wisdom of Alice Munro in the body of Joan Didion.” A reference …

The Walker Curates the News: 10.05.15

by Walker Art Center | Oct 5, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 10.05.15

by Walker Art Center | Oct 5, 2015

The title alone—Empty Lot—conjures an urban outdoorsiness, but beyond that, details of Abraham Cruzvillegas’ s installation for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, opening October 13, remain under wraps. A request by Tate to …