Creative Time: The Book exposes how Creative Time, the New York City–based arts organization, has changed the notion of art in the public realm over the past 33 years. Creative Time has made it possible for more than 1,300 artists to create over 300 public works that have enlivened and transformed the city. With contributions […]

Over the past nine years, Matmos (M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel) have become the darlings of sound sampling pop intelligentsia by playing live with Bjork on her Vespertine tour, composing for the Kronos Quartet, and an upcoming synthesizer album with special guests like Terry Riley and Carston Nicolai. Mixing electronic dance music, noise fetish, and […]

Before Dr. Frank-N-Furter sang, “Don’t dream it, be it,” and a British punk zine instructed, “This is a chord, this is another, this is a third. Now form a band,” there was the Queen of Technicolor. In Jack Smith’s 1962 essay “The Perfect Film Appositeness of Maria Montez,” he declared that what made her the […]

Frank Cohen, one of the world’s top art collectors, following in the footsteps of Francois Pinault, has opened Initial Access, a 10,000–square foot exhibition space, to showcase his private collection to the public. However unlike Pinault in Venice, Cohen has chosen to display his extensive collection of modern and contemporary art hours from the art […]

The ugly duckling is also a recurring motif in the work of contemporary Danish artist Peter Callesen. Here, elements are lifted from a seemingly banal fairytale world into the realm of adulthood for scrutiny. But where Brandes’ argument was political, exposing the ideological fabric that hides behind children’s stories, Callesen’s practice is concerned with an […]

Jim Shaw: Can you tell me your interest in the caverns of Los Angeles? Dani Tull: A few years ago I began a series of paintings and drawings that documented my explorations into the network of secret caverns that are under Los Angles. As a matter of fact, there are a few entrances that are […]

Jacques Louis Vidal:  I’d like to start our little Q&A by thanking you Justin, for raising my child, as if it were your own. Justin Lieberman:  Don’t play like you don’t know how we roll Jacques. I always suspected something. After all, how could I possibly have fathered a child made entirely out of wood […]

For artists, the natural world is an endless resource library of designs, patterns, textures, color schemes, and subjects. George Boorujy is a modern naturalist: he creates large-scale color ink drawings of arid landscapes, lonely ecosystems, and open terrains populated with vulnerable animals. His drawings explore the raw intersection of humanity and the natural world, under […]

Spiritual…I can see that as a problem. To be made to think that something is spiritual when it’s not, I mean. Not that the translation is. A problem. Obviously translations are not ever free of problems. Chances are we simply won’t “get it” as the more dense the material gets, such troubles double. The symbolism […]

This past April, the design fair Ilk in Milano displayed some of the most innovative and contemporary Turkish design works in Milan. Among the 30+ design-forward individuals was artist Yilmaz Zenger. Defining himself first and foremost as a teacher and creator, Zenger does not consider painting and sculpting his professional fields, but instead describes his […]