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This Week in Art

Martin Puryear to Represent the U.S. in Venice, Cuban Artists Speak Out & Doris Salcedo’s “Counter-Monument”

by Anna Burckhardt | Aug 27, 2018

This Week in Art

Martin Puryear to Represent the U.S. in Venice, Cuban Artists Speak Out & Doris Salcedo’s “Counter-Monument”

by Anna Burckhardt | Aug 27, 2018

A look at this week’s art news, including the recent announcement of Martin Puryear as the artist selected to represent the United States in the upcoming 2019 Venice Biennale.

This Week in Art

Havana’s #00Bienal, Contemporary Artists on Climate Change, & Tania Bruguera’s Artivism

by Rachel Heidenry | May 21, 2018

This Week in Art

Havana’s #00Bienal, Contemporary Artists on Climate Change, & Tania Bruguera’s Artivism

by Rachel Heidenry | May 21, 2018

A look at this week’s art news, including the successful closing of Cuba’s first independent art biennial, and a new exhibition at Storm King Art Center on climate change.

The Walker Curates the News: 01.25.16

by Walker Art Center | Jan 25, 2016

The Walker Curates the News: 01.25.16

by Walker Art Center | Jan 25, 2016

Examining nudity “in the real world,” performance artist Deborah de Robertis recreated the nude in Edouard Manet’s Olympia in front of the work itself. In a telling parallel with the painting whose nude …

The Walker Curates the News: 01.18.16

by Walker Art Center | Jan 18, 2016

The Walker Curates the News: 01.18.16

by Walker Art Center | Jan 18, 2016

A recent study has determined that most well-known British artists come from a middle-class background. Critic Ben Davis suggests the same might be the case in the rest of the art …

The Walker Curates the News: 11.16.2015

by Walker Art Center | Nov 16, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 11.16.2015

by Walker Art Center | Nov 16, 2015

For her contribution to Wonder, the inaugural exhibition of the Smithsonian’s newly renovated Renwick Gallery, Maya Lin has created a likeness of the Chesapeake Bay based on NASA satellite imagery …

The Walker Curates the News: 03.09.15

by Walker Art Center | Mar 9, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 03.09.15

by Walker Art Center | Mar 9, 2015

For her contribution to New York City’s first major AIDS memorial, Jenny Holzer will share 8,992 words of Walt Whitman’s epic poem “Song of Myself” on spiralling paving stones in …

The Walker Curates the News: 01.05.15

by Walker Art Center | Jan 5, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 01.05.15

by Walker Art Center | Jan 5, 2015

Artist Tania Bruguera was repeatedly detained by authorities in Havana last week. The Cuban national was planning a work, promoted as #YoTambienExijo (I Also Demand), in Revolution Square in which anyone could speak into an …

The Walker Curates the News: 12.22.14

by Walker Art Center | Dec 22, 2014

The Walker Curates the News: 12.22.14

by Walker Art Center | Dec 22, 2014

Like Klaus Kinski in Fitzcarraldo, artist Renzo Martens wants to build an “extravagant and beautiful” arts center in the jungle, and next month he’ll begin to realize his five-year plan: …

Booked

Uncaged: Coco Fusco and Planet of the Apes

by Elia Alba | Aug 5, 2014

Booked

Uncaged: Coco Fusco and Planet of the Apes

by Elia Alba | Aug 5, 2014

Artist Elia Alba talks to artist Coco Fusco about taking on the role of Dr. Zira from Planet of the Apes.

Guillermo Gómez-Peña: Linguistic Resistance

by Bean Gilsdorf | Feb 12, 2014

Guillermo Gómez-Peña: Linguistic Resistance

by Bean Gilsdorf | Feb 12, 2014

“I think that misinterpretation and mistranslation are essential contemporary experiences…I feel that the artist doesn’t really give answers.”

Alchemy of Inspiration

Alchemy of Inspiration I Looking Ahead to 1993…

by Jessica Lott | Jan 15, 2013

Alchemy of Inspiration

Alchemy of Inspiration I Looking Ahead to 1993…

by Jessica Lott | Jan 15, 2013

We’re a couple of weeks into the new year, and so in the interest of getting organized, here’s a preview of what to see in New York in the upcoming …