From 1973 to 1985, Chris Killip lived among and photographed working-class and underclass communities in the north of England whose livelihoods depended on traditional heavy industry. His subjects include the declining coal mining and shipbuilding cities of Tyneside,...
Sant Khalsa isn’t reticent about her artistic influences. In artist statements, she points to the photographs of Walker Evans, Ed Ruscha, and the Bechers as impactful on her own practice of photographing landscapes of the Southwest, particularly those of Southern...
Every surface, each object of Aaron Fowler’s thirteen assemblage paintings in “Blessings On Blessings,” has been contemplated, touched and worked to build layers of meaning and matter that cohere and disrupt. Dimensionality—of ideas, materials, possible readings—is...
Christopher Richmond’s “Double Fantasy,” a pairing of his videos Panthalassa (2015) and Rendezvous (2016) in his solo debut at Moskowitz Bayse, like much video work, challenges the audience, understandably not wanting to be easy or mere “entertainment.” Brimming with...
Linda Arreola’s debut as an artist was as a sculptor and installation artist. She’s also an architect; and her show, “Architect of the Abstract,” a survey of work curated by William Moreno from 2005 to 2016, is very much the work of an architect who has crossed over...
Like many Cuban artists, Aimée García has learned how to avoid censorship while still communicating her message and ideas. In García’s current body of work titled “Suprematist Speech,” she combines self portraiture with appropriated fragments from the government...
The panel of guest selectors comprising Anya Gallaccio, Alan Kane and Haroon Mirza has chosen 46 artists for the annual open submission exhibition, New Contemporaries. has announce This year's selected artists for the 2016 exhibition will open the show as part of the...
Los Angeles–based Ace Gallery was taken over by a bankruptcy trustee after founder Douglas Chrismas defaulted on a $17.5 million court-ordered payment in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. Ace consists of two gallery spaces located in LA and Beverly Hills and an estimated...
This video follows Clarissa Esguerra, Assistant Curator, and Melinda Kerstein, Mount Maker in the Department of Costume & Textiles, while they get a mannequin dressed and ready for the exhibition "Reigning Men". The ensemble shown here features a a silk...
And the winners are . . . Center for the Study of Political Graphics To Protect and Serve? 50 Years of Posters Protesting Police ViolenceClockshop Courtesy the Artists and Lauren Halsey @ Radio ImaginationCoaxial Arts Foundation Experimental Half-Hour...
Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood’s son, Joe Corré, has issued a press release stating his plans to burn his £5 million punk memorabilia collection in Camden on 26 November, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of punk. The designer said; “When the Queen gives a...
Scott Hove's installations are at once decadent and repulsive, seductive and vile, playful and grave, immersing the viewer in multilayered and tantalizing worlds. His acrylic frosted works draw our attention to the dualistic nature of every vice – we enjoy them, even...
Iggy Pop served as the nude model in a life drawing class at the New York Academy of Art. The session was organized by the Brooklyn Museum and conceived by British artist Jeremy Deller. The resulting drawings, created by 21 artists ranging in age from 19 to 80, will...
DIEM: Talks Design symposium on November 13, 2015, curated by Mallery Roberts Morgan with KCRW's Frances Anderton.New York, Paris, London, LA, Berlin, Hong Kong... in major capitals the big story is art. Why? Is it pure commerce, a new form of spirituality or a branch...
Our favourite art moment scene from season 4 of Louie featuring Louis C.K. and Pamela Adlon.
In The Space Between Us Parducci investigates images of disaster sites. This imagery signifies a continued investigation of prior concerns as Parducci has long been interested in the desperation that is born of catastrophe and violence. Her 2007-2011 “Survival...
Aaron Curry, Creator Creator, 2015, painted aluminum and stainless steel, 131 7/8 x 127 1/2 x 85 7/16", courtesy David Kordansky Gallery.
Billionaire hedge funder Ken Griffin has bought two paintings, a de Kooning and a Jackson Pollock, for a total of $500 million, setting a new record for contemporary art. CNBC reported that music mogul David Geffen was the seller, and that the 1955 de Kooning,...
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