Having spent almost forty years in advertising and marketing related positions, I’ve always enjoyed looking at art, and about twenty-five years ago, began obsessively collecting contemporary art. Never did I contemplate opening an art gallery until four years ago, finding myself without a job and approaching sixty, I moved to downtown LA from Beverly Hills. […]

I opened PSPS in Chelsea in July 2011 on the northern edge of the gallery hub—a changing block rapidly rezoning from a scrap metal and nightclub wasteland into a city developer’s dream. Art has paved the way as it always does, but for the next year or two it will remain somewhat of a ‘free […]

My art school years were formative. I dropped out of high school when I was 18. For the next five years I tried to teach myself how to paint, and I read a lot of art history, as well as the art magazines. By the time I got to art school I was older than […]

Founded by Sanford Smith in 1993, the Outsider Art Fair has become a critical and commercial success and the leading, annual event in the field of Outsider, Self-Taught and Folk Art. Recognized for its maverick spirit, the fair played a vital role in building a passionate collecting community as crowds flocked annually to New York’s […]

Is there something inherently Feminist about the juried exhibition? As a juror/curator you start with a vast number of different kinds of work submitted through an open call that is further democratized by having no names or other signifying clues as to an artist’s identity, origin, or affiliation. Destabilizing and potentially productive, this process allows […]

African Cosmos: Stellar Arts will be on view at the Newark Museum from February 27 through August 11,  2013. It is the first major exhibition exploring the historical legacy of African cultural astronomy and its intersection with both traditional and contemporary African arts. Presenting more than 70 outstanding works of art from throughout the continent, […]

Goethe describes duende as “a mysterious power that all may feel and no philosophy can explain,” and Lorca calls it “in sum, the spirit of the earth.” It’s that ineffable force between human and art—whether on the canvas, in the rhythm of a guitar, in the motion of a dance, or in the words of […]

By Meakin Armstrong The show trial of 2012: three women are locked in a glass booth like Adolf Eichmann. Prosecution witnesses accuse them of “devilish” dancing. Bearded priests bemoan their “sin against God.” Reporters say “pussy” on national TV. Condemnations ring out around the world. There is a torrent of speeches. And support from Madonna […]

“That’s great!” she said. “What’s a chapbook?” This reaction did not surprise me. Although they’ve been around in various forms since the 16thcentury, chapbooks have always been slightly removed from mainstream literary culture. Originally referring to any small booklet— from political pamphlets to collections of song lyrics— chapbooks were tremendously popular, especially in England, until […]

I don’t accept The Muse, regardless of how hard she tries to convince me of her existence. And I can tell you it ain’t Perseus that dispatches so swiftly of Medusa, as the Greeks would have you believe. It is me, on a midnight weekday usually, not long before the end of the year, when […]