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Word is a Virus

Night Papers

by Carol Cheh | Jun 18, 2013

Carol Cheh reports on an L.A.-based literary journal that “has the look and feel of a humble neighborhood rag” but is filled with “surprising moments.”

Word is a Virus

Public Fiction: The Play’s the Thing

by Carol Cheh | May 20, 2013

Public Fiction: The Play’s the Thing

by Carol Cheh | May 20, 2013

Public Fiction, an exhibition and event space in Los Angeles, hosts events that “provide constant stimuli” but “the journals really are the gems of the project.”

Word is a Virus

Word is a Virus | Susan Silton Asks, “Who’s in a Name?”

by Carol Cheh | Apr 15, 2013

Word is a Virus | Susan Silton Asks, “Who’s in a Name?”

by Carol Cheh | Apr 15, 2013

Columnist Carol Cheh reflects on Susan Stilton’s interventionist artwork “Who’s in a Name?”, a response to John Baldessari’s marquee installation “Your Name in Lights.”

Word is a Virus

Word is a Virus | Fan Letter: Printed Matter’s First Los Angeles Art Book Fair

by Carol Cheh | Feb 18, 2013

Word is a Virus | Fan Letter: Printed Matter’s First Los Angeles Art Book Fair

by Carol Cheh | Feb 18, 2013

The first ever Los Angeles Art Book Fair gets a rave review from resident book lover Carol Cheh.

Word is a Virus

Word is a Virus | Artists’ Zines: Darin Klein and Friends’ Box of Books

by Carol Cheh | Jan 22, 2013

Word is a Virus | Artists’ Zines: Darin Klein and Friends’ Box of Books

by Carol Cheh | Jan 22, 2013

Columnist Carol Cheh praises Darin Klein and Friends’ Box of Books that “conjure minimalist and conceptual art practices dating back to the 1960s.”

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision | The Best in Food-Art 2012

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 21, 2012

Gastro-Vision | The Best in Food-Art 2012

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 21, 2012

Writers Megan Fizzel and Andrew Russeth join Nicole Caruth for a look at the year’s best food-art projects.

Word is a Virus

Word is a Virus | The Library of Sacred Technologies: Divine Providence 2.0

by Carol Cheh | Dec 17, 2012

Word is a Virus | The Library of Sacred Technologies: Divine Providence 2.0

by Carol Cheh | Dec 17, 2012

Carol Cheh on the Library of Sacred Technologies (LoST), an experimental publishing platform that has produced a series of pamphlets that are part religious tract, part art zine.

Word is a Virus

Word is a Virus | Revisiting Zines

by Carol Cheh | Nov 19, 2012

Word is a Virus | Revisiting Zines

by Carol Cheh | Nov 19, 2012

Are zines making a comeback? Carol Cheh looks at the evolution of self-publishing since the 1990s and the resurgence of the zine scene in Los Angeles.

Word is a Virus

Word is a Virus | New Releases in Artist-Run Journals: MATERIAL and Prism of Reality

by Carol Cheh | Oct 15, 2012

Word is a Virus | New Releases in Artist-Run Journals: MATERIAL and Prism of Reality

by Carol Cheh | Oct 15, 2012

Carol Cheh looks at two artist-run journals, both of which provide compelling textual windows into L.A.’s rich community of artists and artistic practices.

For Those Who Seek It: Peradam Publishing Group

by Taylor Trabulus | Oct 10, 2012

For Those Who Seek It: Peradam Publishing Group

by Taylor Trabulus | Oct 10, 2012

Taylor Trabulus talks to Elizabeth Jaeger and Sam Cate-Gumpert of Peradam Publishing Group, which encourages artists to experiment with new materials and formats.

Word is a Virus

Word is a Virus | Jack Goldstein: The Subject Vanishes

by Carol Cheh | Aug 20, 2012

Word is a Virus | Jack Goldstein: The Subject Vanishes

by Carol Cheh | Aug 20, 2012

Carol Cheh looks at the writings of Jack Goldstein, a seminal member of the Pictures Generation who also made numerous bodies of work using nothing but text.

Word is a Virus

Word is a Virus | A Studio Visit with Danielle Adair

by Carol Cheh | Jul 16, 2012

Word is a Virus | A Studio Visit with Danielle Adair

by Carol Cheh | Jul 16, 2012

Carol Cheh talks with Danielle Adair, an artist whose videos, performances and installations interrogate the political uses to which language is put.

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision | Picture Perfect

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 19, 2011

Gastro-Vision | Picture Perfect

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 19, 2011

Mainstream cookbooks tend to present a particular style of photography: food spreads done up like the models of fashion magazines. Stylized still lifes, cropped, color saturated, and Photoshopped look too perfect …

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice With Gregory Sholette

by Thom Donovan | Aug 26, 2011

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice With Gregory Sholette

by Thom Donovan | Aug 26, 2011

Artist, scholar, organizer, and professor, Gregory Sholette embodies multiple ways that artists can interrogate history, politics, and public discourse. Through his initial work with the group REPOhistory (1989-2000) (as in, “repossessing …

PictureBox Inc.: Rewriting Post-WWII Visual Culture

by Thea Liberty Nichols | Aug 12, 2011

PictureBox Inc.: Rewriting Post-WWII Visual Culture

by Thea Liberty Nichols | Aug 12, 2011

Thea Liberty Nichols: While trying to determine how to define what it is that you do, I hit upon the idea of just describing all of your activities in one …

Inspired Reading

Introducing Inspired Reading and Jens Hoffmann’s Istanbul Biennial Reading List

by Kelly Huang | Jul 25, 2011

Inspired Reading

Introducing Inspired Reading and Jens Hoffmann’s Istanbul Biennial Reading List

by Kelly Huang | Jul 25, 2011

Each month, Inspired Reading features an interview with an artist or cultural producer about their current project(s), focusing on what texts have informed them along the way. Each column includes a …

Flash Points

PUBLIC AMNESIA

by Din Heagney | Jun 2, 2011

Flash Points

PUBLIC AMNESIA

by Din Heagney | Jun 2, 2011

History isn’t was. History is. No matter how much we wipe our feet at the front door, we track history through the house. Leaving its muddy footprints all over the …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Gregory Sholette

by Georgia Kotretsos | May 27, 2011

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Gregory Sholette

by Georgia Kotretsos | May 27, 2011

Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, and founding member of Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PAD/D: 1980-1988), and REPOhistory (1989-2000). A graduate of The Cooper Union (BFA 1979), The University …

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Work after work after work…

by Melinda Guillen | Apr 13, 2011

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Work after work after work…

by Melinda Guillen | Apr 13, 2011

On Friday, April 8th, two members from Temporary Services, Brett Bloom and Salem Collo-Julin, gave a presentation on their practice at Outpost for Contemporary Art here in Los Angeles. The …

Waiting for Fonda

by Alex Freedman | Apr 12, 2011

Waiting for Fonda

by Alex Freedman | Apr 12, 2011

Ronald Regan: Hi Ed. Call me Ron. Edward Said: Hi Ron, you don’t mind do you. Marcel Broodthaers: Hello Edward. Well I’m told we are waiting for Jane Fonda. — …

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice

5 Questions with Colectivo Situaciones

by Thom Donovan | Mar 16, 2011

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice

5 Questions with Colectivo Situaciones

by Thom Donovan | Mar 16, 2011

* This interview has been translated and co-edited by Brian Whitener. I first heard about Colectivo Situaciones about a year ago, when I received a publication in the mail titled …

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

No Preservatives | Looking at LARGE SCALE; A Conversation with Jonathan Lippincott

by Richard McCoy | Mar 15, 2011

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

No Preservatives | Looking at LARGE SCALE; A Conversation with Jonathan Lippincott

by Richard McCoy | Mar 15, 2011

IMA art conservator Richard McCoy talks with Jonathan Lippincott about his new book, “LARGE SCALE: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s.”

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Martha Rosler’s Kitchen Mise-en-Scène

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 21, 2011

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Martha Rosler’s Kitchen Mise-en-Scène

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 21, 2011

In 2003, the Whitechapel Gallery in London invited Martha Rosler to recreate her classic video Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975) as a live performance. She accepted the invitation by holding …

Las Vegas Studio

by Thea Liberty Nichols | Jan 14, 2011

Las Vegas Studio

by Thea Liberty Nichols | Jan 14, 2011

“…We look backward at history and tradition to go forward; we can also look downward to go upward. And withholding judgment may be used as a tool to make later …

At the Center: An Interview With Brandon Alvendia

by Caroline Picard | Jan 11, 2011

At the Center: An Interview With Brandon Alvendia

by Caroline Picard | Jan 11, 2011

While conversations continue (albeit tiredly) to predict the demise of physical book production, new publishers continue to produce books. There is a wealth of new, bright-eyed small presses all over …

Negotiating an Artistic Practice in a Capitalist Ecology: An Interview with Anne Elizabeth Moore

by Caroline Picard | Jan 10, 2011

Negotiating an Artistic Practice in a Capitalist Ecology: An Interview with Anne Elizabeth Moore

by Caroline Picard | Jan 10, 2011

This introduction is short. Anne Elizabeth Moore gave such thorough answers, it seemed more important to let those stand than offer an interpretation of her merit. Safe to say having …

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: The Best in Food-Art 2010

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 17, 2010

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: The Best in Food-Art 2010

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 17, 2010

From cotton candy rooms to painterly cakes, meaty dresses to pork rind sculpture, pickle portraiture to animated toast, this year was chock-full of good “food-art” — food inspired by art …

NY Print Fair 2010

by Sarah Stephenson | Nov 11, 2010

NY Print Fair 2010

by Sarah Stephenson | Nov 11, 2010

An air of refinement hung fairly heavily throughout the old Armory building this weekend with a weighty reminder of the long history of printmaking at the IFPDA Print Fair. Many …

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment: Disciplinary Complex

by Oliver Wunsch | Nov 10, 2010

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment: Disciplinary Complex

by Oliver Wunsch | Nov 10, 2010

Over the past few decades, “interdisciplinary” has emerged as a popular designation in academic culture, particularly in the arts and humanities. Both as an undergraduate in studio art and as …

NY Art Book Fair 2010

by Sarah Stephenson | Nov 9, 2010

NY Art Book Fair 2010

by Sarah Stephenson | Nov 9, 2010

This year’s NY Art Book Fair marks the departure of AA Bronson, one of the fair’s original organizers. Bronson resigned from Printed Matter only a few weeks ago, intending to …

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Interview with Derek Chan

by Martine Syms | Oct 26, 2010

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Interview with Derek Chan

by Martine Syms | Oct 26, 2010

Derek Chan and I have been friends for a little over four years. We both moved from Los Angeles to Chicago in the Fall of 2005. We had several mutual …