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Read MoreIn this Q&A, Elizabeth Johnson sits down with Rebecca Segall, owner and Director of Gross McCleaf Gallery.
Read MoreDear readers, as we publish the cash prize and honorable mention winners in the 2018 New Art Writers Contest, we’d like to thank everyone who took the time to share their writing with us and congratulate all the winners! This year’s turnout was truly encouraging and we can’t wait to share the “Best of the New Art Writing Contest Anthology” book with you in 2019. Thanks also to Mari Shaw, whose generosity and support of local art writing allowed us to offer our biggest prizes to date.
Read MoreResponding to Aldouri’s mandate to make art mean something again, not just produced for First Friday consumption, might we be able to create the requisite “distance from the imperative to make and exhibit” by rediscovering the energies that animated Plato, Aquinas, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Marx, and subsequent moral philosophers, sociologists, theologians, and secular humanists to engage in the agony of confronting art with morality, thereby suspending this malignant “superabundance of production”?
Read MoreWith this constant flux of activity, the capacity to view, look, and reflect about art is rendered significantly more difficult. The upshot to the universalization of endless artistic productivity is a certain prohibition against thinking about the art made and displayed. What matters is not what the art means or does—a judgement that often takes time to work out—but participation as a free-falling spectator in the mad flux of artistic creation.
Read MoreThe 28 Mexican artists in Strange Currencies mainly developed time-specific, action-based, and socially engaged practices. In documentary photographs, videos, sculptural and auditory installations, and intermedia assemblages, their works visualize a DIY mentality.
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