MUNGO THOMSON
In the 1970s, the artist Richard Prince was working in the tear-sheet department of Time/Life publications, where he began the portentous act of keeping personal copies of the advertisements he had been tasked to register. Photographing the pages with slide
GALA PORRAS-KIM
“I am interested in objects suspended from their original function and purpose by being stored and displayed in institutions solely as historical objects,” the artist Gala Porras-Kim writes in a letter to Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology. The
Telluride Art Walk: A Gallery Guide
Courtesy of Telluride Arts District Tonight, low-hanging clouds ring the mountains that frame the historic town of Telluride. Once home to a frenzy of mining activity in the late 19th century, Telluride is now a mountain adventurer’s paradise and a cultural
A conversation with Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya
Amongst the sprawling one-story warehouses of downtown LA, Murmurs Gallery stands out with its polished glass-and-concrete exterior and beckoning matcha and café-latte sign. The recently reopened, community-oriented events space and gallery boasts an artist-curated shop, café, plant-filled courtyard, and monthly
Puppetry: Exploring Representation through Abstraction
The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center — The Clemente for short — is a quiet cultural trove. The architecture juxtaposes its clamoring Lower East Side neighborhood, standing proud on the corner of Rivington Street under a sedate,
Plum Cloutman: Emergency
Tucked into a stripped-down space in the upper reaches of a building beside the High Line, Hesse Flatow gallery displays Plum Cloutman’s work almost in secret. Not actually, of course—the U.K.-based painter and printmaker’s solo show has been quite popular
The Cruel Art
Ballet is a cruel art, not much less crueler now than what it was in Belle Époque Paris, but art nonetheless, and terribly inspiring as such. At the beginning of June, I went to see the Degas exhibition at the
3 Intervews: The Shed Open Call with Bessie Rubinstein
The Shed arts center opened in the spring of 2019 in Hudson Yards, a megadevelopment that ate up $25 billion dollars. This kind of rapid development and pushback is endemic to New York. Yet despite the unremarkability of the architecture
The Architect’s artist: Costantino Nivola at Magazzino Italian Art
If Alvar Aalto can be dubbed the ‘architect’s architect,’ I call Costantino Nivola the ‘architect’s artist.’ A Sardinian native, he fled Fascist Italy with his Jewish wife, finding himself happily ingrained in the explosive mid-century AbEx New York City ecosystem.
Spooky Action: Liz Nielson
I have been told by local Newburgh, NY friends that Liz Nielson and her wife, Lina, run the best gallery in the city. Elijah Wheat Showroom is a gem, tucked down the lush, and now quiet — save for the