Many of Mellencamp’s paintings are portraits of anonymous subjects known only to the artist.  However the varied facial expressions trigger a curiosity that becomes a desire which takes one into the medium and surface of the painting itself, showing how visually arresting subject matter does not have to be drawn from a commonly-known sign system.  […]

  Presented by director Jim Hubbard and producer Sarah Schulman, UNITED IN ANGER: A HISTORY OF ACT UP documents the birth and life of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) from the perspective of those in the trenches, who fought the epidemic, social indifference, government neglect, and corporate greed. Using remarkably insightful interviews from […]

In regards to art history, I think it’s both linear and simultaneous. I mean, at this moment all information and art is always already present, and it’s all interrelated to what we make now, like some non-prioritized google search, like buoys on the ocean. Of course, I have a team of artists I want to […]

  Scavenging bricks and wood for kiln-building, camping overnight at outdoor firing sites, throwing hundreds of pots a day, and making your own pottery tools. It’s difficult to imagine students embarking on a ceramics course like this today. Yet for the last half-century, teaching ‘hands-on’ skills to ensure self-sufficiency as a working potter was the […]

This story begins unlike the other ones – with a noise in the night. Not the usual racket of nighttime sirens, traffic passing monotonously in the rain – No: doors slamming, electric saws, the spiky hiss of a welding torch. Is someone breaking in to the Archives? A bureaucrat from the Museum staging a midnight […]

Edited by Nato Thompson, Living as Form consists of more than 100 projects selected by a thirty-person curatorial advisory team. Concerned with the political implications of socially engaged art, artists explore how their work addresses issues that affect our world. Some artists featured in the book are the Danish collective Superflex, Jeremy Deller, Women of […]

Joshua Abelow: One of the things I like about your work is that it is both abstract and figurative.  Can you elaborate on how you began working this way? Ted Gahl: I’ve always responded to both kinds of work. Like a lot of people who paint and draw, I grew up trying to represent the […]

“Manifesta 9: The Deep of the Modern” opened recently in the coal mining complex André Dumont in Waterschei, Genk, Belgium. The unusual combination of art and heritage, as well as the first attempt in history to provide visitors with an overview of how coal mining influenced modern art, are intensely felt at this exhibit. The […]

This year artMRKT Hamptons will feature 40 leading galleries from across the U.S. who will present painting, sculpture, drawings, photography, video and installation. Showcasing a tightly focused selection of work by important artists in a boutique setting, artMRKT Hamptons will create an ideal context for the discovery, exploration, and acquisition of art. Their Evening Preview […]

Rinas’s work triggers memories of traditions and rituals that are instilled in Greek citizens since childhood. These paintings depict abandoned industrial edifices co-existing with the fragments of ancient architecture. Within these tableaux loom imaginative symbolic structures in which a musical, stringed instrument becomes a chariot with rusty smokestacks. The strips of paint that intersect and […]