One of the things that surprises me to no end, and this is an operation of power, is that people feel unable to just go …
In early February 2015, I met with UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive adjunct curator Constance Lewallen and assistant curator Stephanie Cannizzo in …
Following World War II, the Red Menace mentality held a death grip over U.S. foreign policy. In the 1950s it fomented U.S.-backed clandestine coups, by …
White Ladies of the Canyon In February, Joni Mitchell told New York Magazine that she has an affinity for black men. In fact, she went …
In February, the artist Sarah Meyohas invented her own currency called “BitchCoin,” which she presented in collaboration with Where Gallery in Brooklyn, as part of …
Alex Bacon met with Elaine Cameron-Weir in her Brooklyn studio to discuss some of the issues at play in and around her work. Structured less …
It is not pleasant to contemplate the thoughts that must be passing through the mind of the Owl of Minerva as the dusk falls and …
At first sight, the city is nowhere as inebriating as the neighboring Dubai, with its maximalist now-iconic skyline, particularly sugarcoated for the Art Week and …
Much of Internet culture uncritically frolics in an ecology greatly affected by the unique opportunities and affordances of the Internet and the web while ignoring …
When did you become or realize you were a conceptual artist? I think it was probably in the late ‘60s when I wanted to push …
When NSA documents released by Edward Snowden first went public, one extremely pointed and particular angle of outrage came not from privacy activists but from …
By the time any of you are reading this, I will have already given my eulogy for Richard Berger, and only time will tell if …
One of the last times I saw Tania we drank a bottle of Blanton’s Kentucky Bourbon and laid on the floor in my living room …
To encounter ambitious contemporary art, you must also encounter the world of the international curator, the most prominent member of the global art world. He’s …