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Miami Art Week Artillery Report: Day 3 New Art Dealers Alliance Fair, MOCA North Miami, and Pérez Art Museum

Miami Art Week Artillery Report: Day 3
New Art Dealers Alliance Fair, MOCA North Miami, and Pérez Art Museum

For my final full day here in Miami, I headed across Biscayne Bay to Downtown Miami, an area home to several arts institutions, including the Pérez Art Museum Miami. After experiencing the traffic of last year’s Art Week, I was determined to minimize bridge crossings...

Miami Art Week Artillery Report: Day 2 Untitled Art and The Bass Museum

Miami Art Week Artillery Report: Day 2
Untitled Art and The Bass Museum

After spending most of the day yesterday inside the convention center to visit Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB), for day two I enjoyed the second most important part of Miami Art Week: the beach. Along with the crowds of New Yorkers who fly down to South Florida,...

Miami Art Week Artillery Report: Day 1 Art Basel Miami Beach

Miami Art Week Artillery Report: Day 1
Art Basel Miami Beach

Artillery is back in Florida for another round of Miami Art Week. As always, the days will be packed with fairs, exhibitions, parties, and events that showcase the biggest names in modern and contemporary art alongside emerging artists and rising stars of the...

Publication in the Age of Negation, Part VIII Laying a False Trail Across the Visceral Ether

Publication in the Age of Negation, Part VIII
Laying a False Trail Across the Visceral Ether

Nobody is reading this. No sooner have I started to write a sentence than I’m plunged into bitterness and despair. Sitting down to write has become too great a test of my moral and spiritual strength: I am immediately mystified as to why it is so difficult to get my...

Our Bodies, Our Business More Fodder for Michele Pred in a Post-Roe Era

Our Bodies, Our Business
More Fodder for Michele Pred in a Post-Roe Era

Oakland-based Swedish-American artist Michele Pred achieved notoriety in the early 2000s for her conceptual sculptural installations of items like Swiss Army knives and manicure scissors confiscated by airport security. Pred’s witty and dramatic work, with a strong...

Moon Raker Michelle Stuart's Conversation With Time

Moon Raker
Michelle Stuart's Conversation With Time

Monumentality is not the point of Michelle Stuart’s work. “Connection” doesn’t exactly sum it up either, although it’s always there. Transit or transition would be closer to it—although it would have to be understood within a post-Einsteinian view of the universe and...

Fire and Water The Beautiful Tragedies of Calida Rawles

Fire and Water
The Beautiful Tragedies of Calida Rawles

In 2004 Calida Rawles moved from New York to Los Angeles, and she found an art scene brimming with life. Trained as an artist, she longed to become part of that world, and asked herself whether she would become a collector or a painter. She decided to give herself the...

Decorum and Decay Watching Astra Huimeng Wang Watching You

Decorum and Decay
Watching Astra Huimeng Wang Watching You

On a sweltering September afternoon, I visited artist Astra Huimeng Wang as she was in the final stages prepping for her first solo show of paintings at Make Room LA. Her studio is nestled above a discount clothing store in LA’s Fashion District, where crowded shop...

Keeping the Animal Alive Chasing the Ephemeral with Samuelle Richardson

Keeping the Animal Alive
Chasing the Ephemeral with Samuelle Richardson

Samuelle Richardson is a sculptural textile artist who began her career as a painter. Her painting itself evolved from studies in anatomy, for which she made 3D skeletal models. But by chance—or fate, when her painting studio became unavailable 10 years ago—she...

More Women Six Profiles

More Women
Six Profiles

We can never cover all the deserving women artists in one issue, so in a modest gesture, we asked our writers to pitch a woman artist they’d like to champion in 200 words, to squeeze in just a few more. Gala Porras-Kim The sprawling, splintered and paradoxical...

Publication in the Age of Negation, Part VII Sex, Drugs and Bad Writing

Publication in the Age of Negation, Part VII
Sex, Drugs and Bad Writing

I hadn’t sent the novel out in a while. In fact, I hadn’t sent it out in months. What was the point? Even if they loved it, they didn’t want it. At this point I was too dispirited to send the work out or describe the ensuing demoralization. But I needed to send it out...

OUTSIDE LA: Nicole Eisenman Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles

OUTSIDE LA: Nicole Eisenman
Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles

It’s one thing to engage in a discourse about the influence of art historical movements on contemporary painters, and another still to analyze a particular artist’s specific set of influences, such as Nicole Eisenman’s robust relationship with the European...

Publication in the Age of Negation, Part V A Tiresome Outpouring of Fribbling Expatiations

Publication in the Age of Negation, Part V
A Tiresome Outpouring of Fribbling Expatiations

I don’t know how to create the impression of time passing. But it passed, weeks passed by, during which nothing much happened. The sense of futility engendered by these dealings with the literary establishment hung over other potential undertakings. There didn’t seem...

Art Writer/Author Frances Colpitt Dies (1952–2022)

Art Writer/Author Frances Colpitt Dies
(1952–2022)

Frances Colpitt, renowned art historian, author, curator, feature writer and contributing editor for Art in America for over 20 years; teacher and mentor, died in her Fort Worth, TX, home September 12, 2022. Colpitt, who recently retired from her position as the...

Publication in the Age of Negation, Part IV Wasted Words

Publication in the Age of Negation, Part IV
Wasted Words

One sends out this precious, all too precious, closely guarded work to complete strangers: they might initially take an interest, but after being presented with the entire manuscript, they can’t be bothered to get back to you at all, not even with a brief cordial...

Beautyful Migrations The Diaspora According to Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Beautyful Migrations
The Diaspora According to Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Njideka Akunyili Crosby is having quite the year. Her figurative paintings are on the walls of esteemed museums and institutions across the country, often featuring portraits of herself, friends and family. Akunyili Crosby’s unique style consists of painted, drawn and...

Racial Reckoning Mark Steven Greenfield Illuminates the Black Experience

Racial Reckoning
Mark Steven Greenfield Illuminates the Black Experience

In 2020, Mark Steven Greenfield unveiled a new body of work, “Black Madonna,” followed by “HALO” in 2022, both at the William Turner Gallery in Santa Monica. Gallery owner William Turner told me in an email that the “Black Madonna” show was a natural progression of...

Let There Be Light Daniel Hawkins’ Desert Lighthouse Turns Five

Let There Be Light
Daniel Hawkins’ Desert Lighthouse Turns Five

“It looks like the unlicensed pot farms have ceased operations.” Daniel Hawkins is surveying the Mojave Desert landscape surrounding the hill on which he built a fully functioning 50-foot solar-powered lighthouse in 2017. Below us, an elaborate compound of white tents...

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