So here’s my thing. I’m a lady who was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, with the exception of two years when I lived in Nevada as a child. I’m 37 and I live in South Philadelphia. I started to make photos when I was 30 because I was compelled to produce this long-term, gigantic-scale, […]

Victoria Mayer: How would you describe the main themes of your recent artworks?Tom Schmelzer: My art is about topics that are somewhat important to all of us: life and death, love and violence, truth, politics, religion, the environment. You’ve heard all of that before? It bores you? Well, this is why, in my work, you […]

SunTek Chung’s elaborately staged photographs are brilliant send-ups of cultural clichés, but with an edge. Populated by a variety of classic Asian and American stereotypes, his scenarios break open such contrived depictions by synthesizing numerous Eastern and Western social signifiers in order to demonstrate that stereotypes, whatever form they come in, can just as easily […]

“It is thus that we are warned at each step of our nothingness, man goes to meditate on the ruins of emptiness, he forgets that he himself is a ruin still more unsteady, and that he will fall before these remains do.” —Chateaubriand Looking at ruins has a long cultural history, particularly in poetry and […]

My work is about seeing through the first layer. To explain this, I will first talk about the process of how I create my artwork. I have a library of over two thousand 35-millimeter slides. I layer two or more slides, or I cut them apart with an Exacto blade and create a collage. I […]

I am 25 and I own the biggest art gallery in the world. I exhibit freely in the streets of the world, catching the attention of people who are not museum visitors. My work mixes art and acting, talks about commitment, beauty, freedom, identity and limits. After I found, by chance, a camera in the […]

The pivotal exhibition, “Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art” at the Brooklyn Museum, is a major show that powerfully extends the notion of transnational feminisms today, showcasing more than 80 international women artists. In its catalogue, preeminent art historian Linda Nochlin provides a masterfully direct, state-of-the-art statement, in which she looks at the past […]

I have been shooting since I was a teenager. I got my first 35 mm camera when I was 13 years old and still use the same format to this day. I like to shoot in black and white, with 35 mm film and usually with low lighting. This gives me the kind of picture […]

Dan Graham has said before that most great art is about humor. In curating “Deep Comedy” with independent curator Sylvia Chivaratanond, Graham has brought to Ballroom Marfa works by more than ten artists variously motivated by the comedic impulses of non sequitur, slapstick, satire and sitcom. Their punch lines aren’t as hard-hitting as the obvious […]

Back in the 70s, the heyday of the feminist movement in New York, one might choose to accept that dictum articulated by critic Lucy Lippard—that all art is political, whether intentionally so or not. Today, when you walk into the Brooklyn Museum’s new Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, what you see on the […]