“I think of each layer of paint as concealing– but only partially– an entire world behind it.” Jason Stopa: These are clearly mixed media pieces. But I’m curious; does the term ‘mixed media’ even mean anything anymore? How do you see them? Keltie Ferris: Actually, I don’ t ever use the term mixed media, because […]

Cory Arcangel (born 1978) is a digital artist, musician and performer based in Brooklyn. His work spans mediums such as video, photography, and sculpture, and concerns itself with the relationship between technology and culture, making use of media in many cases. Arcangel is best known for his video game hacks. His work has been featured […]

The Norton Museum of Art has announced a $1.5 million grant from The Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund/MLDauray Arts Initiative for a six-year project called RAW (Recognition of Art by Women). RAW’s mission is to discover, highlight, showcase, and promote living women artists, a group the grantors believe has been substantially underrepresented, and that the […]

Claustrophilia is an exhibition now on view through June 25th at the HERE Gallery located at 145 Sixth Ave. Curated by Suzanne Stroebe, the show brings together eleven works from six artists–Cortney Andrews, Angela Basile, Jana Flynn, Lily Koto Olive, and Brittany Prater in five videos, two photographs, and four paintings.   Brittany Prater, A […]

“Our contemporary environment is quite turbulent, often over-stimulating us to the point of being dulled to the underlying reality of each moment and every place. The “visual pauses” I create are a response to our routine lack of mindfulness, providing the viewer with opportunities to regain focus and to intuit the unfathomable in the worldly.” […]

Dia Art Foundation is pleased to announce Constellation Congress, a three-part exhibition of work by Koo Jeong A, that provides the first opportunity for American audiences to experience the in-depth work of this important artist. For over twenty years, Koo Jeong A has been steadily and rigorously constructing a visual language of evocative riddles and […]

Michael Brennan: When I first saw your work I thought, “Here’s a painter who’s a wildcard.” And I wanted to know on a personal level: Were you always a rule breaker? Were you a problem child? Trudy Benson: As a kid, no; as I got older, I guess I was. I had dreadlocks when I […]

ASSOULINE is pleased to announce the publication of a groundbreaking new title. Guy Laliberté, founder of Cirque du Soleil, documents his experience in space in the first-ever book of photography published by a private space explorer. Featuring his photographs of Earth—as seen from the International Space Station—this evocative piece showcases Laliberté’s captivation with Earth’s surface, […]

 Pioneering video and multimedia artist Wang Jianwei is known for his conceptually complex, multi-faceted explorations of the contemporary Chinese reality. Using elements of theatre, philosophical inquiry, artistic methodology and “scripted accident,” he seeks to illuminate the in-between, that poorly defined grey zone where most of us live—and where most of the really interesting things happen. […]

Kurt Schwitters, a “grandfather figure” of the avant-garde in his native Germany and a master of European Dada and Surrealism, is finally conquering the hearts and minds of Americans thanks to this “extreme collage” experience, curated by Isabel Schultz (of Kurt Schwitters Archive at the Sprengel Museum, Hannover) in collaboration with Menil director Josef Helfenstein. […]