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Faith No More
02/28 |
Manish Vora
I was skeptical when philanthropist and photographer Elizabeth Jordan asked me to visit Saint Peter’s, a church at 54th St. and Lexington to see her interactive exhibition, Written Offering. When I arrived at the address, I walked past the Citigroup building several times and could not find the church. Cursing google maps and about to give up hope, I realized it was built into the side of a fifty-nine story corporate building.
Support the Arts: Non-Profits and Museums
11/29
In honor of the holiday season, last week we celebrated artists to be thankful for in 2011. This week, we caught up with directors and curators from a few of our favorite non-profits and museums to ask what they have been thankful for this year, as well as what our readers can do to give back to the cause.
Aspen Extreme
08/10
The 90s cult classic movie Apen Extreme defines the mantra, "Go big or go home," so it should come as no surprise that Aspen, a town with under 6,000 full time residents, has decided to once again go big - really big - by raising $50 million for a brand new Aspen Art Museum in the heart of town.
Culture
Good Morning Lenin!
07/18 |
Laura Gonzalez
The New Museum’s Ostalgia, on view until September 25th, takes up almost all of the museum’s exhibition space, including the lobby. And the elevators. It’s literally floors upon floors of art that ranges from paintings to video installations to a car mounted on a wall. According to curator Massimiliano Gioni, the exhibition falls in line with the New Museum’s mission statement, which is to showcase art that New York doesn’t usually see. It might be hard to think of things that New York doesn’t see, but a massive exhibition of Soviet and post-Soviet art by over 50 artists across 20 countries is probably one of them. It’s gigantic and disorienting, which is exactly what Gioni was going for.
Beyond Jasper Johns
07/01 |
Rebecca Siegel
This Fourth of July, most of us will be celebrating our three-day weekends with much needed down time, while vaguely appreciating that nationalism, if not patriotism, is the reason behind this extra day off from the grind. Amidst the red, white, and blue fireworks, these works offer a more nuanced perspectives on patriotism.
Runs in the Family
06/18 |
Kristin Sancken
The art business is often a family business. Father and child power teams such as Julian and Vito Schnabel, Arne and Marc Glimcher (Pace), Pierre and Max Levai (Marlborough), Nicholas and Alex Logsdail (Lisson), Peter and Kelly Brant (Art in America), Bill and Larissa Goldston (ULAE & Larissa Goldston) and Daniel and Guy Wildenstein show that when it comes to the art world, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Artists too sometimes end up passing the trade on to their children. In honor of father’s day, here are a few of art's fathers, sons, and daughters.
Community
Join ARTLOG's City Ambassadors
01/30 |
Manish Vora
ARTLOG thrives on the contributions of its incredible community of art lovers, gallerists, museum professionals, and artists who make their work accessible. There are now over one thousand galleries and museums worldwide that manage their profiles on ARTLOG and many more thousands of artists and art lovers who submit shows to us. However, we have heard over and over from our readers that there is so much more outside of art fairs, festivals, and New York City.
Buzz: Around Chelsea, Paris, LA, and the Hamptons
07/20 |
Jacqueline Spar
The Buzz is your guide to the artworks and events that are currently trending in the Artlog community. Last week’s inaugural post fed excitement around Juanli Carrion’s solo show at Y Gallery, and Carrion’s artwork – imagining a future city immersed in darkness – continues to occupy the top trending spots. Nathalie Provosty’s work from Green(ish) Hermeticism at Gallery Diet is also attracting attention after appearing in last week’s Buzz column.
Buzz: Curating with KAWS, Partying with Panamanians
06/30
Artforum has “Scene and Herd,” while the Wall Street Journal has its own “Heard and Scene.” At the risk of becoming “Heard and Scene and Herd,” Artlog’s “The Buzz” is a weekly column highlighting noteworthy work from the people and organizations that make up the Artlog community worldwide.
Global Guides
ARTLOG'S Global Ambassadors Share Their Picks
03/21
Our ARTLOG Ambassadors are back to share their picks from around the world. From Art Month in Sydney to a 24-hour screening of The Clock in LA, it’s a great time to see art no matter where you are. We are still looking for ambassadors from Berlin, Paris and a few other major art hubs, so e-mail us if you’d like to get involved.
ARTLOG Global Ambassadors Share Their Picks
02/28
This month at ARTLOG, we’ve asked our new City Ambassadors to choose their favorite gallery and museums shows, from Brooklyn to Sydney and everywhere in between. Don’t see your city on here? E-mail us to learn more about the ambassador program and how you can get involved.
Must See Across the USA
01/09 |
Manish Vora
If gyms and yoga studios overflow after the new year, why shouldn't museums and galleries? Check out this months' must-see shows in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Boston and Chicago. Alternately, those of you with the time and money can just enroll in Gagosian's Damien Hirst Spot Challenge and book your around-the-world ticket to all eleven Gagosian galleries.
Profiles
DUOX Will "Customize Your Strife"
01/25 |
Alexandra Kleiman
Few artists use obscure materials such as Zebra Cakes, fish tanks, and keychains with such lyrical efficacy as the Baltimore-based duo DUOX, a collaboration between Malcolm Lomax and Daniel Wickerham. Their installations often aim to implicate viewers through their movement or interaction and focus on a queer sensibility and a digital context.
Five Artists from Another Planet
11/03 |
Amanda Ryan
In May 2012, Tom Sachs will take over the Park Avenue Armory's 55,000 square foot drill hall to simulate a month-long expedition to Mars. The installation, titled <i>Astronaut's Training Manual: Space Program 2.0: Mars</i>, features a Martian landscape, mission control, spacecraft, exploratory vehicles, and a launch pad, all constructed from a variety of common materials. In anticipation of the unveiling of this massive undertaking, here's a look at current shows that are out of this world, including Tom Sach's <i>Work</i> at Sperone Westwater.
Four Artists to Know: Meet the Johnsons
10/07
You’re going to be seeing a lot more from these four artists named Johnson. They have studied at Yale, trekked through Northern Canada, been collected by Steve Martin, shown at the Hammer Museum and Blum & Poe, and been selected for an upcoming solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
In Images
When the Party's Over
12/16 |
Jarrett Moran
Laura Letinsky’s still life photographs are the antidote to Will Cotton’s sugary Katy Perry confections. In the light of morning, the actors are offstage, the fruit and sweets half-eaten and forgotten (but not yet rotten). This is what it feels like when the party’s over.
The Week In Images
11/16 |
Caitlin Ruttle
In this international look at the week's exhibitions, a hallucinatory scene unfolds in a drawing by Roland Reiss at Robert Bernman Gallery. Jordanian artist Hilda Hiary, initially trained in political science and sociology, delves into the politics of the Middle East and Northern Africa. Julian Rosefeldt painstakingly collects stills from soap operas and reality shows, a catalog of the ways television has conditioned our day-to-day interactions.
The Week in Images
11/08 |
Caitlin Ruttle
A look at artwork opening this week in exhibitions around the world. Derek Frech imagines a future in which the natural and technological have become seamlessly entwined, taking the title of his exhibition from Star Trek’s Holodeck. Jeff Gillette’s paintings picture a dismal future of urban slumscapes that also come out looking oddly idyllic, while Jordi Bernado uses photography to help us understand the contemporary cityscape.
Museums
Kehinde Wiley in Israel: Can we all get along?
05/04 |
Manish Vora, Kelly ...
In his Israel series, Wiley brings together the contemporary—the young men who pose for the portraits—and the traditional—the ceremonial papercuts that are the source for the backgrounds—to create a dynamic new form that empowers and enlivens both.
Read Our Guggenheim Twitter Interview
04/17 |
Jarrett Moran
Thanks to everyone who tuned in for yesterday's live Twitter interview with Guggenheim curator Susan Davidson and, of course, to everyone who submitted insightful questions!
The Guggenheim Announces Its New Global Art Initiative
04/17 |
Amanda Ryan
Last Thursday, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum announced the launch of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, an ambitious new project intended to bring about cross-cultural exchange and broaden the scope of the Guggenheim’s collection.
Art and Activism
Artists and Architects Offer a Vision for Long Island City
05/11 |
Amanda Ryan
Once a heavily industrial area, Long Island City has been experiencing rapid change over the past few years. As many formerly commercial neighborhoods are being rezoned as residential, community activists and developers are at odds as to the best way to reinvigorate the area. Among the most contested issues is the development of the waterfront, which is both a vital public space and plum property for high-rise residential construction.
The Best Protest Signs of May Day
05/02 |
Manish Vora
On May 1st an estimated ten thousand people marched past ARTLOG's offices on Broadway in SoHo in New York City. View our selection of creative protest signs.
A Nomadic Exhibition Travels on a Hard Drive
04/27 |
Nicci Yin
Creative Time’s Living as Form exhibition in New York opened up a dialogue that is now being taken to a global scale. Living as Form (The Nomadic Version) is co-organized by Creative Time, Independent Curators International, and art venues around the world. Its first stop is curated by Christina Linden at the San Francisco branch of Kadist, an art foundation that is also based in Paris.
Art and Music
Doug Aitken Teams Up with Pitchfork and Wired at the Hishhorn
05/09 |
Tiffany Jow
The Hirshhorn is raising eyebrows by saddling up with Pitchfork and Wired to present one of Aitken’s Happenings. On May 11, Pitchfork-approved bands including Geologist, Tim McAfee Lewis and Leo Gallo, High Places, No Age, Oneohtrix Point Never, and Nico Jaar will perform outside the museum
Crossing Musical and Geographical Borders at the Unsound Music Festival
04/18 |
Amanda Ryan
Back for its third installment, the Unsound Music Festival descends on New York for a week of experimental music, cross-cultural collaborations, and panel discussions in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York and the Goethe-Institut. The Unsound Festival aims to cut across boundaries in electronic-based music and form unique dialogues that capture the scope of the genre.
More than Metal: The Guggenheim's Soundtrack for John Chamberlain
04/13 |
Tiffany Jow
The one hundred works on display at the Guggenheim by John Chamberlain underline the elegant amalgamation, disorganized tangents and bombs of color that characterized the sculptor’s work. The crushed-car craftsman also had another passion: music.
Los Angeles
Kenny Scharf: A Hodgepodge of Cartoons, Cadillacs, and Cosmic Caverns
04/25 |
Kelly Hill
Kenny Scharf’s newest show, Hodgepodge at Honor Fraser Gallery in Los Angeles, incorporates everything from a fluorescent Cosmic Cavern installation to The New and Improved Ultima Suprema Deluxa, a modified Cadillac covered in paintings.
The Evolution of Betye Saar
11/10 |
Catlin Moore
In 1926, Los Angeles had 2.5 million fewer residents. The 5, 405, 710 and 105 freeways had yet to be conceived – for what they’re worth – and a Kansas City transplant named Walt Disney had just finished construction on his first animation studio on Hyperion Street. Coffee – mercifully – was not sipped through a ubiquitous green straw, and the Los Angeles Angels were blissfully unaware of a sleepy orange-grove-laden town called Anaheim. A city notoriously fond of makeovers, reinventions, and facelifts, Los Angeles has always pooh-poohed the notion of a slow transformation, and Betye Saar has witnessed eighty-five years’ worth of its ephemeral stages.
What It Takes to Be Kenton Parker
10/24 |
Shana Beth Mason
Vacillating between vagrant, guerrilla artist, scruffy flâneur, and academic observer, Los Angeles-based multimedia artist Kenton Parker inhabits multiple identities with a single purpose: to reveal his native surroundings’ inherent ugliness and veneer of superficial beauty. Parker’s prolific body of work as an artist and curator includes graphic design stenciled on city walls, shiny tongue-in-cheek trophies depicting police brutality and civilian violence, and films referencing drug use and car chases while mocking late 1950s informational programs. Parker discusses his practice and his latest show It Takes All This to Be Me at Primary Projects, Miami.
Street Art
New Histories
01/16 |
Alexandra Kleiman
Initially known by his graffiti tag “Dephect,” Ian Tweedy continues to intervene in public space through murals and in social consciousness through the appropriation of cultural symbols. In his sculptural constructs and installations, the artist grafts images ranging from soldiers at war to old cars onto found objects large and small, creating parcels of times past.
Post No Bills: Printing Street Art in LA
10/14 |
Amanda Ryan
In June of this year, former Banksy manager Steve Lazarides and business partner Jordan Bratman opened Post No Bills printshop and gallery along LA’s Abbot Kinney Boulevard, a bustling strip of shops, restaurants, and galleries near Venice Beach.
Olek: Anything but Camouflage
05/16 |
Cassandra Young
Call it street. Call it craft. Call it flash. Call it a happening. Call it lowbrow. Call it kitsch. Call it guerrilla. Olek cares about how you see the objects of daily life.
Art and Technology
Internet Pranks and Art World Disruptions: 0100101110101101.ORG
04/19 |
Tiffany Jow
Hoax or not, Eva and Franco Mattes put their mastery of deception to good use. Having disrupted the secure conventions of the art gallery, they’ve got viewers spellbound and critics riled up. Now, the Carroll/Fletcher gallery in London presents the team's finest stunts in a retrospective titled Anonymous, untitled, dimensions variable.
The Walker’s Game-Changing New Website
12/04 |
Museum Nerd
The Walker Art Center’s new website, www.walkerart.org, launched December 1, represents the most forward-thinking best practices in the museum field today. If you have even the slightest interest in contemporary art and culture, you’ll want to bookmark the website regardless of whether you live in Minneapolis, Minnetonka, or Mumbai. Before I jump into the specifics of the site, let’s take a look at how a medium-sized museum in the middle of a great, but relatively remote, city has leapt (in my estimation) to the forefront of the entire museum field.
Using the Web to Rebel Against the Web
10/06 |
Jarrett Moran
Social Media at The Pace Gallery assembles a group of artists responding to the internet, whether as a way of bringing people together, as an aesthetic influence, or as a state of affairs to regard skeptically and even satirize. Social Media takes a long view that starts in the 1960s with Robert Heinecken (the show’s one pre-internet artist), who altered magazines like Time and Mademoiselle with his own collages and put them back on supermarket racks for others to stumble on. Since Heinecken, the idea of pulling from, responding to, and feeding back into the media has become more commonplace – Twitter, Tumblr, conceptual art video games, supercuts, and super supercuts attest to the prevalence of Heinecken’s media interventionism.
Performance
It's NOT All About the Benjamins at Art Fairs
05/07 |
Manish Vora
In the past week, I went to seven art fairs, seven open bar parties, seventeen galleries, and read seven hundred articles on the money flowing through NYC during the fairs. For a lucky few, the “seven minutes in creative heaven” spent drawing, sculpting, meditating, and creating with INNER COURSE will be the only lasting memory from just another week in the world of art.
Contemporary Performance in Florence
05/02 |
Jason-Louise Graham
A sixteen-member cast of actors, dancers, and musicians sourced from all over Europe will recount Jan Decortes’s dark interpretation of Sophocles’ myth, accompanied by guitarist Elko Elko Blijweert and blues legend Roland Van Campenhout.
The Aquila Theatre Sets the Stage with Macbeth
05/01 |
Natalie Fasano
Lights swivel, shadows flit in the darkness, and dark figures flood the stage. Sound and sight are closely guarded, and neither is spared in the creation of a truly haunting effect. Blood drips loudly from the hands of Macbeth (played by Guy Oliver Watts) to the floor, creating the iconic spot that remains for the duration of the performance.
New York
This Week in NYC: James Murphy at the Kitchen and JR on the High Line
05/23 |
Amanda Ryan
Jump-start your summer with food and music on Governors Island, outdoor art installations in Times Square and near the High Line, and cocktails at a beautiful new rooftop bar. For our full listings of the week’s events, check here.
POP: This Week's Performances, Openings, and Parties
05/16 |
Amanda Ryan
This week in NYC, enjoy the warm weather on the Met roof, explore the Martian landscape at the Park avenue Armory, and party for your favorite non-profits at their annual benefits.
POP: Ten Performances, Openings, and Parties This Week
05/09 |
Amanda Ryan
This week in NYC, we've got some events to ease your art-hangover from Frieze week. Catch Clybourne Park at the Walter Kerr Theater, drink some award-winning cocktails at the Manhattan Cocktail Classic, and dance to Afrika Bambaataa at MoMA PS1.
Public Art
Anish Kapoor Towers Over London
05/25 |
Betsy Mead
It’s been a busy year for Indo-British artist Anish Kapoor. This year alone, the sculptor, recognized for his unique use of form, structure, and pigmentation, exhibited at Frieze New York, held a solo show at both locations of Gladstone Gallery in Chelsea, and recently completed the official Olympic Tower for the London 2012 Games, designed with architect Cecil Balmond.
Bright Spots in Public Spaces: Baji Lives!
05/14 |
Lindsey Grothkopp
One year ago, a curious intervention popped up overnight on the Williamsburg Bridge: egg-shaped swatches of green, yellow, blue, maroon, purple, red, and blood-orange lined the beams above the bike lane, a subtle yet peppy addition to commutes and weekend rides. Such is the work of Brooklyn-based artist Peter Brock, who founded the ongoing project known as Baji Lives! with the M.O. of brightening public spaces (and eliciting the occasional smile).
Tom Sachs Is on a Mission to Mars
05/11 |
Betsy Mead
In 2007, American artist Tom Sachs used everyday materials to painstakingly build a 1:1 model of the Apollo lunar probe and stage a moon landing within the confines of the Los Angeles branch of Gagosian Gallery, complete with mission control monitors relaying footage of the astronauts in space suits. Sachs’ latest project takes his fascination with the challenges, ingenuity, and wonder of space travel even further.
Art and Authorship
Interview: Fragments of a Worldview
02/21 |
Jarrett Moran
Bo Joseph’s work confronts you with the process that produced it. The paper is frayed, patched together, the drawings a dense accumulation of marks that seem to have been deposited by successive generations of human habitation. Scrutinize them long enough and outlines of artifacts, ceremonial objects, and sculptures emerge. It might be a Roman helmet, a bull, a seated figure, but usually it’s just the intimation of a form that doesn’t quite come into focus. Joseph’s upcoming exhibition, Fragments of a Worldview, shores together its materials and source images into a contingent sense of reality.
Animal Activism as Ready-Made
01/23 |
Alexandra Kleiman
Adding live animals to the directory of Duchampian “ready-mades,” artist Darren Bader pulls together disparate objects (and creatures) in a gesture ultimately questioning where the producer, consumer, and intermediary lie.
Finding the Mayhem in Sherrie Levine's Retrospective
11/14 |
Amanda Ryan
When Sherrie Levine debuted her famous series of photographs After Walker Evans at Metro Pictures in 1981, the pieces provoked outrage, confusion, and most importantly, conversation. In the series, Levine rephotographed Walker Evans’ iconic depression-era photographs, raising questions about authorship and context. How are Levine’s artworks distinct from the originals by Evans? Does the new context change their meaning?
Chicago
Artlog's Fall Art Guide: Chicago Edition
09/26
Three young, recent graduates of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago open their first solo shows this fall: Timothy Bergstrom builds dense topographies in his paintings, Andrew Holmquist hovers between representation and abstraction, and Dan Gunn employs wall-based, free-standing, and hanging constructions. MCA Chicago’s The Language of Less (Then and Now) places five contemporary artists in dialogue with 1960s and ’70s work by Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Richard Serra, Sol LeWitt, and others. For those looking for art in unexpected places, galleries and artists take over unused downtown storefronts for the monthly Chicago Loop Alliance Pop-Up Art Loop on October 6. You can also discover independent art initiatives, spaces, galleries and artist groups at the second installment of the MDW Fair at Geolofts.
Nathan Vernau: Reaching Out and Freaking Out
09/20 |
A-J Aronstein
I met with Nathan Vernau at Small Bar, an apt name for the neighborhood hangout roughly equidistant from our respective apartments on Chicago’s Northwest Side. It was a few days before the opening of his first solo show in the city, and he had just finished the exhibition’s centerpiece. Titled Everything Will Be Okay, it took thirty consecutive nights of focused labor to complete, and was the largest and most complex work he’d ever undertaken.
The Exceptional and the Ordinary
07/15 |
A-J Aronstein
Robert Bills Contemporary’s subterranean location offers much needed relief from humid July afternoons in Chicago. Located ten steps below street level in the city’s West Loop district, the gallery has had a busy spring, winning attention at NEXT 2011 and scoring hometown praise from art critic Lauren Viera at the Tribune. In her review of Exploding Faces [Confining Spaces] – an exhibition of work from Second City-based artists Nathan Vernau, Tiphanie Spencer, and Steven Frost – Viera said that RBC had “redefined” the concept of the group show. Vernau will open the fall season with a solo show in September. But as the gallery looks to build on its recent successes and put a punctuation mark on the summer, it has turned to two native Chicagoans with sharply different perspectives on what constitutes the “ordinary.”
Miami
Politics at Play
05/25 |
Shana Beth Mason
There's been a recent surge in defiant, conceptually-driven work coursing through the contemporary art community in Miami: the fancies of dictators, Suprematist echoes, environmental outcry, deadened didactics, and disused technologies have all come forward. As the season draws to a thunderous close, artists and gallerists alike are making sure they're taking an audible, pre-Basel deep breath.
Miami's Spring Standouts
04/23 |
Jenifer Mangione V...
Miami’s fushcia-smudged sky provides the perfect backdrop for the Wynwood Art Walk, which pops up on the second Saturday of every month and draws swarms of viewers and arty events.
Action or Sculpture?
12/20 |
Amanda Ryan
Since the 1980s, Erwin Wurm has created “one-minute sculptures,” for which a participant strikes an unlikely pose with an object while being filmed or photographed. Demonstrating that the performance is more important than the end product, in some videos Wurm attempts impossible balancing acts, failing again and again for the duration of the minute. He explains that, “I want to deal with with the idea of ‘is this an action or is this a sculpture?’ When does one turn into the other?”
Art and Urbanism
A Utopian Cloud City on the Roof of the Met
05/17 |
Lindsey Grothkopp
When the weather turns warm this summer, be sure to spend a sunny afternoon on the roof of the Met. Argentinean artist Tomás Saraceno has transformed the museum’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden into a dream-like habitat of transparent and reflective modules called Cloud City.
This Side of Paradise: A Bronx Art and Culture Hub
04/19 |
Christine Licata
Through June 1, the once insular and exclusive Andrew Freedman Home in the Bronx has been transformed by site-specific exhibition facilitators No Longer Empty into This Side of Paradise, a progressive arts and culture tour de force of thirty-two emerging and established artists, local cultural institutions, and community collaborations.
The Crooked Plumbing of Humanity
04/06 |
Jarrett Moran
David Opdyke observed firsthand a moment cracks appeared in the edifice of progress. Growing up in Schenectady, New York in the ’70s, he saw the city once home to Thomas Edison’s Machine Works, G.E., and ALCO decline into a state of abandonment, returning in bits and pieces to nature.
Art and Gender
Wu Tsang in the Biennial and the Triennial
03/13 |
Nicci Yin
Featured prominently in both the Whitney Biennial and the New Museum Triennial, Wu Tsang is currently one of the most visible artists in New York City. Although Tsang can be easily pigeonholed as a mixed-race/trans artist of color, these identities provide a hotbed of common misconceptions for his performance work to challenge and problematize.
Waging the Women Art Revolution
08/25 |
Caitlin Burke
Woven intermittently amongst interviews and archival film footage, Lynn Hershman Leeson’s documentary !Women Art Revolution offers viewers slides of artwork by female artists rarely, if ever, seen in the classroom. The images create a type of impromptu art history class on the feminist art movement, and by connecting it with the trajectory of American history from the 1960s onward, she astutely places the movement in historical context. Simply as something to watch, WAR is enjoyable: interviews with important figures such as Judy Chicago, Marcia Tucker, and Lowery Stokes Sims are witty, insightful, and replete with anecdotes. Yet as an analysis of feminist art, Hershman Leeson posits an unsettling conclusion: while the efforts of feminist artists were not all for naught, much of their work’s significance has been glossed over throughout the decades, largely due to the same hegemonic structures they fought against.
Deconstructing Clara
06/30 |
Mayukh Sen
Dara Birnbaum has made a career of deconstructing our pop art imagination. It’s no wonder, then, that Ms. Birnbaum, a pioneer of the feminist art movement, would turn to YouTube to form her newest feminist critique, Arabesque (2011), the iconic video artist’s first exhibition in a decade.
San Francisco
SF's Asian Art Museum Makes Its First Foray into Contemporary Art
05/18 |
Tiffany Jow
While Asia is quickly becoming a hub for contemporary artists, you’d never know it walking into San Francisco’s stoic Asian Art Museum. Known for showcasing priceless objects from its massive collection, the forty-six-year-old institution was wavering on the brink of bankruptcy in 2010. Taking smart steps to broaden its appeal, the museum restructured its debt, got a fancy new look, and is now mounting its first large-scale exhibition devoted to contemporary Asian art.
Artlog's Fall Art Guide: San Francisco Edition
10/07
Artlog, in partnership with Société Perrier, has the guide to the best of the fall gallery season in neighborhoods across San Francisco. You’ll find background information on the shows and recommendations for the city’s top museum exhibitions, fall events, and places to eat and drink along the way. This is part of an ongoing series of fall guides – you can find the rest of our guides here.
Biennials & Surveys
The Longest-Running Group Show in America
04/20 |
Grace-Yvette Gemmell
The Academy’s Annual was always intended to be a reflection of contemporary American visual culture. I would say that because the show is both self-selected and selected by artists/architects (i.e. not a curator or curatorial team) it is in many ways more democratic than an exhibition chosen with a particular curatorial agenda in mind. It is not bound by a specific ideology.
Queens International: Journeys to Inner and Outer Worlds
04/19 |
Grace-Yvette Gemmell
The arrangement of the show had a lot to do with the demands and opportunities presented by the building – which is a crazy combination of intimate spaces, impossibly high ceilings, curved walls, etc. We made an effort not just to group the similar together, but to expand ideas through juxtaposition.
The People's Biennial: Resisting the Monoculture of Consumption
04/18 |
Grace-Yvette Gemmell
I was interested in the old avant-garde idea of the creativity of the masses and how to present work that was not done by professional artists. Amateurism and regionalism became terms we spoke a lot about. Both signal in my understanding a form of resistance to the monoculture of consumption in the art world at this point in time.
Art Fairs
Inside PULSE New York
05/07 |
Alana Chloe Esposito
This year Pulse Art Fair switched from its usual early March slot during the Armory Fair to try out New York’s new art week during the Frieze Art Fair. View highlights from the fair below and get an inside perspective from director Cornell DeWitt.
Highlights from Frieze New York
05/07 |
Lindsey Grothkopp
This weekend thousands of New Yorkers made the trek to Randall’s Island for the first New York art fair from London’s Frieze, held in a striking $1.5 million tent designed by local architecture firm SO-IL. In addition to over 180 international galleries, the fair also included artist commissions (sponsored by Mulberry) and a full schedule of talks and panels.
SEVEN Heats Up the Boiler
05/03 |
Amanda Ryan
Some works are site-specific, such as Emil Lukas’ Skin, which modifies the industrial space, or Ben Gocker’s chaotic arrangement of objects, which is best described as a “visual poem.” There is a common thread of collage and combinations of disparate imagery through all of the works. Hew Locke, a Briton of Guyanese descent, created his own coat of arms from exotic imagery, mimicking the cultural adaptation of colonized peoples and the fungibility of culture and identity.
Middle East
A Renaissance for Arab Art
10/12 |
Pia Copper
The new museums of the Gulf have been the talk of the art world for some time now. The oil-rich countries of the Persian Gulf spent the past decade investing in architects, curators and artworks, quietly building monuments for posterity filled with art and artifacts.
Art and Revolution in Sharjah
04/11 |
Pia Copper
The tenth edition of the Sharjah Biennial, curated by Suzanne Cotter, Rasha Salti, and Haig Aivazian, is haphazard but at times deeply touching. Meanwhile, the swift and largely-unexplained dismissal of Sharjah director Jack Persekian, due to the content of an artwork by Mustafa Benfodil, has been big news.
Interview: Art Middle East
03/14 |
Nazy Nazhand
Lebanese-American photographer Walid Raad recently won the 2011 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography, after making the shortlist for last year's Hugo Boss prize. As Nazy Nazhad tells it, Raad is one part of a larger story about the growing prominence of the Middle East in contemporary art.
Design
Major Architects on a Small Scale
05/04 |
Betsy Mead
Renowned architect Frank Gehry recently unveiled his latest project – a deconstructivist chess set produced in collaboration with luxury jeweler Tiffany & Co. Gehry is no stranger to working on a small scale, and the tradition of architects working in the field of industrial and product design has a long tradition. Modernist masters like Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright designed everything in their buildings down to the chairs and tableware.
The Art of Former Punk Rock Frontman Peter Dayton
05/01 |
Mallory Passuite
The artist Peter Dayton has found success in both punk rock and painting. His canvases filled with bright flowers and bold surfboard stripes are inextricably linked to his days opening for the Ramones as the front man of La Peste.
Art-Meets-Architecture Collective Snarkitecture
04/10 |
Mallory Passuite
Artist Daniel Arsham and architect Alex Mustonen combine their talents as Snarkitecture, a collective that has realized interdisciplinary projects spanning monumental public sculptures in honor of Miami’s demolished Orange Bowl and a collaboration with choreographer Jonah Bokaer.
Fashion
Designer Henrik Vibskov's Beautiful Chaos
05/10 |
Tiffany Jow
A new monograph marks the tenth anniversary of Henrik Vibskov's eponymous label and examines his twisted yet compelling creative vision.
Fashioning Conversation at the Met: Schiaparelli and Prada
05/10 |
Tiffany Jow, Brittn...
Following the success of its Alexander McQueen retrospective, The Metropolitan Museum of Art unveils its latest fashion-focused exhibition, Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations.
Fashion Double-Header at Paris’ Les Docks
04/17 |
Tiffany Jow
Last week, Paris’ Les Docks mounted two exhibitions in step with the fashion-as-art bandwagon, celebrating the genius of cult label Comme des Garçons and legendary designer Cristóbal Balenciaga.
Readings
Influential Curators Choose Pivotal Artworks from the Past Twenty-Five Years
05/16 |
Serena Qiu
Defining Contemporary Art: 25 Years in 200 Pivotal Artworks takes an innovative approach to surveying the art of the last quarter century, which is notoriously difficult to periodize or define. Eschewing grand narratives, Phaidon asked for individual artwork selections from eight of today’s most influential curators.
Understanding the World in Images
05/15 |
Betsy Mead
An art historian and an art editor have teamed up to produce Information Graphics, a new Taschen publication (slated for release on May 27) that encyclopedically chronicles the images that make sense of the torrent of data rushing past us. The book itself provokes information overload with four hundred infographics about subjects from sleep to politics and four essays about the history of graphic design. Preview a few highlights from the collection below.
Construct Something Out of a Cereal Box, Leave It in a Museum
05/15 |
Serena Qiu
Unfortunately (or fortunately), we can’t all afford to go to art school. But now there’s a much cheaper way to learn from the likes of John Baldessari or Liam Gillick. The Brooklyn-based contemporary art journal Paper Monument, a sister publication of literary magazine n + 1, has released Draw It with Your Eyes Closed: The Art of the Art Assignment, which proves that the studio classroom isn’t the only place to learn about making art.
Tokyo
Report from Tokyo
03/30 |
Robert Tobin
If there is one group that you can count on in times of crisis, it’s people in the art world. Just minutes after Tokyo experienced one of the strongest earthquake in recorded history, my mailbox started filling up with notes from artists, friends and clients inquiring not only about me but about the gallery. Thankfully we are fine and the gallery suffered very little damage: a few paintings fell from their places but were not harmed. Miraculously, the ceramics by Ryota Aoki fell to the floor but did not break.
Istanbul
Contemporary Art in Istanbul
03/30 |
Güher Gürmen, Mehme...
Istanbul, the meeting point of cultures for centuries, now has a flourishing contemporary art scene. The European Union declared Istanbul 2010’s European Capital of Culture, which raised the visibility of contemporary art, gave artists opportunities to participate in international events, and led to the establishment of new galleries.
Collecting
A Family at the Center of the Parisian Avant-Garde
05/14 |
Kelly Hill
The Steins Collect at the Metropolitan Museum of Art demonstrates how Gertrude, Leo, Michael, and Sarah Stein promoted and supported some of the greatest artists of their time, including Matisse and Picasso.
Eleven Facts About the Notorious Spot Paintings
01/11 |
Jarrett Moran
Let’s get this straight and move on: eleven facts about Damien Hirst’s spot paintings. On view at all eleven Gagosian galleries worldwide.
Inside Blake Lively's Art Collection
11/29 |
Ann Rose
Actress Blake Lively may be better known as a style icon than as an art collector, but she has assembled quite an inspiring personal collection. I recently had the privilege of interviewing Lively about her favorite pieces and what drives her passion for art. With a mix of contemporary art, vintage black and white photographs, and even a few prints from Urban Outfitters, her collection shows that art can be accessible at any age or budget.
Latin America
Latin American Art Scenes in Miami
05/03 |
Ruba Katrib
When Ruba Katrib discovered a crop of new artist-run spaces across Latin America, she realized they were unknown in the United States while well-connected to European art scenes. Now she is changing that with MOCA’s New Methods (May 4-6), a Miami meet up for organizations from Argentina, Guatemala, Columbia, Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia, and Puerto Rico.
Year in Review
Artlog Year in Review
01/06 |
Jarrett Moran
As Artlog moves into 2012, it’s hard to imagine that at this time last year we were building our new website and starting to shoot our first video interviews. Before long, we were expanding internationally and releasing a global set of exhibition guides to major cities. Our network of contributors now includes the likes of Museum Nerd, Anne Pasternak, and Amy Phelan. Here’s a quick glance back at the year on Artlog.
The Best Art of 2011
01/03
We asked a panel of collectors, patrons, and experts: what was the best art of 2011? They share their highlights from the year's gallery and museum exhibitions, performances, street art, and books.
Collectives
Who Is Will Brown? Meet the Team Behind an Experimental Gallery, Illegitimate Business, and Comedy Drawing School
05/25 |
Grace-Yvette Gemmell
Will Brown is something of an anomaly in the art world. The brainchild of artists Lindsey White, Jordan Stein, and David Kazprzak, Will Brown is difficult to define, which is one of the things that makes the collaborative project so appealing.
A Laboratory for Art, Food, and Tech
01/11 |
Alexandra Kleiman
You hear of new media art collectives, you hear of art and technology collectives, and you hear of food and art collectives, but only now have we heard of a collective tackling all of these territories at once. The House of Natural Fiber (HONF) collective, founded in 1999 and based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, positions itself as a “new media art laboratory” driven by collaborative creation.
An Artist Collective in the Heart of Mexico City
12/26 |
Anne Huntington
When most people fly back north after Art Basel Miami, I fly further south to Mexico City. For the past week I’ve been immersed in the culturally fueled and loaded city – lots of studio visits, meetings, friends and little sleep.
Art and Race
Between Dashikis and BET
01/13 |
Jarrett Moran
Already a finalist for the 2012 Hugo Boss Prize, Rashid Johnson is embarking on the biggest year of his career thus far, with solo shows opening at Hauser & Wirth in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, David Kordansky in LA, and South London Gallery during the Frieze Art Fair.
Interview: Black Power Mixtape 1967-75
09/13 |
Mayukh Sen
The recent release of Tate Taylor’s The Help (2011) has allowed a heated, ongoing debate plaguing American cinema to resurface. From Mississippi Burning (1988) to The Blind Side (2009), mainstream cinema has shown a tendency to make historical narratives rather soigné and palatable. Revisionist impulses are cloaked under the veneer of inspirational vehicles that skirt more nuanced views of our country’s racial politics. Among other misdemeanors, these movies often cast a self-congratulatory light on the enlightened, rich white liberal, who is assumed to be instrumental in the “liberation” of the minority.
Revolution Is His Drug
06/23 |
Mayukh Sen
From Tokyo Rose to Hanoi Jane, the wartime spy has intrigued, surprised, and repulsed us. This mythical, abstract quality is precisely what Kenseth Armstead seeks to deconstruct with Spook: Invocation, the multimedia artist’s first solo exhibition.
Art and Literature
Transcribing the Body Electric
01/18 |
Jarrett Moran
I’ve seen a lot of calligraphy lately, between the Metropolitan Museum’s reopened Islamic Art galleries and the Morgan’s Islamic manuscript painting show. In both exhibitions, the artists interpret stories, poetry, and religious texts not just through illustrations but through the lettering itself. Natasha Bowdoin’s sculptural collages are also transcriptions of literature, though the words are illegible and her authors of choice include Lewis Carroll, Jorge Luis Borges, and Herman Melville.
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Artists Reinterpret the Brooklyn Museum
01/23 |
Jarrett Moran
With Brooklyn a byword for artist studios and emerging artists, the Brooklyn Museum is uniquely positioned to introduce visitors to the latest work coming out of the borough, alongside a collection spanning Egyptian antiquities to American and contemporary art. In a return to the spirit of past initiatives like the Working in Brooklyn exhibitions and 2004’s two-hundred-artist Open House, the Brooklyn Museum’s Raw/Cooked is a year-long series of five solo shows by emerging artists.
Events
Art and Champagne in Chelsea - Saturday, May 19
05/09 |
Lindsey Grothkopp
On Saturday, May 19 join ARTLOG and the Yale Club for an afternoon of art and champagne on 21st Street in Chelsea. The tour will visit Gagosian, Pace, Haunch Of Venison, Tanya Bonakdar, and Larissa Goldston.
Chelsea Art Crawl - April 21st
04/13 |
Danielle Schmidt
Spice up your Saturday with a wine-filled tour through New York’s top galleries. ARTLOG’s latest art crawl takes you through eighteen incredible galleries in the world’s largest gallery district, Chelsea, as well as public art installations on the High Line.
SoHo Art Crawl - Saturday, March 31
03/29
Experience ARTLOG’s popular art crawl series with a private tour or a self-guided adventure. Mingle with artists at Grey Area, the innovative new art and object shop, while enjoying a fabulous Appleton Estate Rum tasting. With VIP access, enjoy a special talk at Dia’s Broken Kilometer, an exclusive studio visit with artist Les Rogers, and a tour of several more galleries. You can then join up with the rest of the art crawlers to visit over a dozen galleries and installations while enjoying new friends, wine, and beer before heading to the open bar after-party!
Photography
Ryan McGinley's Lust for Life
05/23 |
Nathaniel Lee
Both halves of Ryan McGinley's bi-pronged photographic practice can currently be seen in two different exhibitions on view this month at Team Gallery. It’s the first time Team has given over both its locations to a single artist since opening its second location on Wooster Street last year.
Marco Breuer: Photography Without a Camera
05/08 |
Tiffany Jow
Over the course of his twenty-year career, Marco Breuer has made a name for himself as a camera-less photographer. Less concerned with how photography captures a subject and more with the uncharted territory in the very materiality of photography, the conceptually driven German artist uses coal, sandpaper, heat guns, burning swaths of cotton, electric frying pans, and other unexpected objects to lacerate photographic paper in various ways.
Photoville Pops Up in Brooklyn Bridge Park
05/04 |
Tiffany Jow
A new photography fair called Photoville comes to Brooklyn Bridge Park this summer, complete with exhibitions, lectures, workshops, demos, and late-night screenings.
Paris
Meandering in Paris: Ai Weiwei, David Lynch, and Matisse
03/21 |
Pia Copper
It may seem strange to compare two exhibitions and a new art bar in Paris, but here goes. The three artists are Ai Weiwei (b. 1957), Henri Matisse (1869-1954), and David Lynch (b. 1946), an unlikely combination but the most inspiring of what’s on in Paris in the coming spring months.
Sculpture
Helmut Lang's First New York Solo Show
05/15 |
Tiffany Jow
Former fashion designer Helmut Lang is focusing on art full-time and has quietly opened his New York exhibition at a Village townhouse.
Anish Kapoor: Color and Curvature
05/08 |
Betsy Mead
Among the many and varied pieces on show at this year’s New York Frieze Art Fair were several works by Indian-born British sculptor Anish Kapoor. Kapoor, who has lived and worked in the United Kingdom since beginning his career, had three pieces on show, under the representation of the Lisson Gallery.
John Chamberlain at the Guggenheim
02/27 |
Grace-Yvette Gemmell
The retrospective likens the artist’s process of “articulate wadding” to Renaissance drapery studies, though Chamberlain himself described his method as resembling “the handling of toilet paper" and the result to “twisted bed sheets after a night of raucous sex.”
Ask the Curator
Ask the Curator: John Chamberlain at the Guggenheim
03/22 |
Jarrett Moran
Artlog and the Guggenheim are teaming up for a live Twitter interview with Senior Curator Susan Davidson, who worked closely with John Chamberlain on his current retrospective. Submit your questions via e-mail, Twitter, or Facebook by Friday, March 30, 5:00 p.m. EDT, and join us for the Q&A on Chamberlain’s birthday—Monday, April 16 at 2:00 p.m.
Interview: Finding Stillness through Art and Urban Studies
09/15 |
David van der Leer
Last week we asked you to submit questions for Guggenheim architecture and urban studies curator David van der Leer in conjunction with the opening of the Lower Manhattan edition of stillspotting nyc, which runs September 15–18 and 22-25. The two-year project calls on architects, artists, and composers to create “stillspots” throughout the five boroughs, and this time around, legendary Estonian composer Arvo Pärt has collaborated with architecture firm Snøhetta, the designers of the museum pavilion at the World Trade Center site.
Language, Culture, and Politics
04/18 |
Nat Trotman
Curator Nat Trotman talks about his Guggenheim exhibition Found in Translation. The artists are young, the material sometimes topical and charged: Palestinian artist Sharif Waked responds to videos made by Islamic suicide bombers, and Sharon Hayes stages enigmatic, one-woman protests in cities around the world.
China
You Too Can Spy on Ai Weiwei
04/03 |
Jarrett Moran
Marking the anniversary of his eighty-one-day detention by the Chinese government one year ago, dissident artist Ai Weiwei is letting us all in on the government’s twenty-four-hour surveillance of his every move. Ai has installed cameras throughout his home and studio—over his bed, at his desk, outside his door, in his courtyard—sending a twenty-four-hour livestream to weiweicam.com.
The New Generation of Chinese Artists
04/15 |
Meg Maggio
Pace, Gagosian, and other powerhouses may be rushing into China, but Meg Maggio beat them to it by twenty years. Her Ai-Weiwei-designed Beijing gallery, Pekin Fine Arts, represents major artists like Wang Qingsong, who currently has a show at the International Center of Photography in New York. “Never underestimate the vast cultural and linguistic divide,” Maggio tells us.
An Inside Perspective on Ai Weiwei
04/08 |
Austin Ramzy, Melis...
Three experts discuss the reaction within China, the relationship between art and activism, and the international response.
Video and Film
Tacita Dean and the Process of Creation
05/11 |
Betsy Mead
British artist Tacita Dean is widely recognized for her work in a quickly disappearing medium: 16mm film.
A Multimedia Pioneer at the Whitney
05/08 |
Betsy Mead
Those wondering what’s next after the Whitney Biennial can wonder no more—the museum’s recently released schedule of upcoming exhibitions reveals that many film and video projects will be on offer. A standout among them is German-American artist Oskar Fischinger’s multi-screen projection Raumlichtkunst (Space Light Art), first shown in Germany in 1926.
Ten Picks from the Tribeca Film Festival
04/20 |
Suzanna Lee
The eleventh annual Tribeca Film Festival got off to a running start this week, and there’s still time for you to get in on the action.
Painting
The Origins of The Scream
05/02 |
David Schroeter
The Scream goes up for auction at Sotheby’s today with the official estimate at $80,000,000, but many expect bidding to go much higher. Here’s our introduction to the long history of the four versions of the painting: a controversial (and unpopular) origin, threat of destruction under the Nazis, storage in a barn in Norway, and two art heists.
The Scream Goes Up for Auction
05/01 |
Lindsey Grothkopp
On May 2, Edvard Munch’s The Scream will lead Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York. The work is poised to join the ranks of the most expensive paintings of all time, among works by Cézanne, Picasso, Van Gogh and Andy Warhol with an estimated price of $80,000,000.
After Twenty-Five Years, a Glorious Return to the Art World
04/11 |
Julie Novakoff
Albert Contreras was a highly regarded minimalist painter in the ‘60s and early ’70s before he shut down his studio in Sweden and took up blue-collar work for the city of Santa Monica, California, driving garbage trucks and operating heavy equipment. Now he’s back in the studio and working in fast forward to make up for lost time.
London
From a Bedroom Art Show to Iraq
05/02 |
Betsy Mead
British conceptual artist Jeremy Deller’s first large-scale piece, Open Bedroom, was truly an at-home job. One day in 1993 he found himself home alone. His parents had gone on holiday. With the house his own for a blissful, but short, time, Deller turned his room—mess, posters, and all—into an exhibition.
Waste Not: Five Decades of Everyday Objects
04/23 |
Tiffany Jow
Born in 1966 on the eve of the cultural revolution, Song Dong's childhood was permeated with mu jin qi yong, the Chinese adage meaning “waste not” that was a necessity for survival in times of social and political turmoil. In a heartfelt homage to his mother, the artist created Waste Not, an intricately detailed display of objects his mother amassed over five decades, including toothpaste tubes, bottle caps, plastic bowls, metal pots, blankets, toys, and even part of the family home.
Yayoi Kusama Challenges Hirst's Spots at the Tate Modern
04/17 |
Nathaniel Lee
Damien Hirst may have begun 2012 by becoming the art-world’s favorite spot painter with his globe-spanning series of exhibitions at Gagosian, but the British superstar must now contend for the title on his home turf. In February, the Tate Modern opened its retrospective exhibition of 150 works by renowned Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, which now stands alongside the museum’s recently unveiled Hirst survey.
Moscow
Russian Art Award-Winners
04/26 |
Manish Vora, Kelly ...
The All-Russian Contemporary Visual Art Prize, INNOVATION, held in Moscow, is awarded annually to support contemporary artists, curators and writers from across Russia.
Installation
Japanese Artist Yasuaki Onishi Casts the Invisible
05/22 |
Tiffany Jow
At first glance, it seems certain that either a cast of a glacier, a mountain, or a cumulus cloud has invaded Houston’s Rice University Art Gallery. Yet upon closer inspection (which is encouraged), the installation actually consists of mere sheets of plastic suspended from the ceiling with nylon thread and wisps of black hot glue.
Step Inside Ernesto Neto's Playful Sculptures
04/30 |
Nicci Yin
Ernesto Neto’s sculpture is reminiscent of a childhood ball pit, requiring you to cling, for balance, to crocheted nets suggestive of jungle gyms.
Architecture
The Architects Behind the Controversial New Barnes
05/17 |
Tiffany Jow
The opening of the new Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia this Friday is the culmination of one of the most controversial projects in recent art world history. The architects, husband-and-wife team Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, tell us about working on the project amidst the art world's protest.
Before Abramović: Four Ill-Fated OMA Museum Proposals
05/16 |
Amanda Ryan
Last week, Marina Abramović announced that she has commissioned OMA, Rem Koolhaas’s architecture firm, to develop her massive performing arts center in Hudson, New York. Over the years, Koolhaas has produced many ambitious plans for museums, quite a few of which haven’t seen the light of day.
Olympic Architecture: Beijing vs. London
05/10 |
Betsy Mead
The London 2012 Olympics will dominate screens and clog British roads in a matter of months, and while the the attention will be on the medals, it would be misleading to pin the games as merely a sporting event. The competition is an opportunity for the host nation to flaunt its power and industry through the architecture of its Olympic park.
Printmaking
Richard Diebenkorn's Sublime Prints
05/03 |
Meredith Rosenberg
It’s safe to say that you will not find a more satisfying and beautiful example of softground etching than the Richard Diebenkorn prints published by Crown Point Press.
Drawing
Clinical Photorealism and Psychedelic Sketches
05/14 |
Tiffany Jow
Marissa Textor and Ryan Travis Christian are not only long-time friends, but also share a serious love for graphite. Textor’s painstakingly photorealistic graphite drawings depict forces of nature at their most ruthless and unsympathetic. Christian makes work that mix ’30s cartoons with ’80s design, evoking reactions ranging from humor to disgust.
The Frenzied Unconscious
07/07 |
Mayukh Sen
Things don’t make sense in Laura Ball’s world. A giraffe melts onto an elephant’s body. Parrots burst from a horse’s mane. Human irrationalities take monstrous form. Her universe presents the unknowable and unwanted, all that we wish to avoid. Laura Ball’s energetic, frenzied watercolors, part of her newest exhibition, Animus, are an attempt to express the collective feminine unconscious, brutal and chaotic, through animal form.
Stranger Territories: Reinterpreting Mary's Lamb
06/22 |
Nozlee Samadzadeh
They are insanely bright and look across the room at each other. I love putting handmade things into magazines and books and the internet – drawings for everyone to hold in their laps (or laptops). But there’s nothing quite like having the drawing itself, and all its quirks of color and line, out there in the world at eye level having conversations with strangers. I think they probably have great conversations with New Yorkers.
