Americana
A perverse take on the American West.
In honor of Vo’s 2012 Hugo Boss Prize, the Guggenheim is opening an exhibition that shows a more personal and intimate side of Vo’s work.
Waiting anxiously for the returns to come in is better with company, so here are a few ideas.
Photographer Joe Klamar caught some flack for his less-than-flattering portraits of the US Olympic Team.
Hunt Slonem draws us into a world of ghosts, mystics, plantations, and exotic birds.
It’s the 4th of July, so we’re looking back at 236 years of American history in iconic images and artworks.
In celebration of the Fourth of July, here are a few artists who have used fireworks and explosions in their work, from drawing on walls to collaborating with research laboratories to creatively disposing of others’ artworks.
An artist’s exhibition focusing on renditions of the American flag ignites a frenzy in a normally quiet New York suburb.
Aaron Young almost got himself kicked out of art school for his motorcycle shenanigans. Now they’ve turned him into an art world rock star.
Cynthia is an ungainly sight. She wears hemorrhoid pillow dresses. There’s a constant look of displeasure on her face. Her voice is pained and slightly monotonous. To numb her boredom, she surrounds herself with the stuff of infomercials – new age kitsch and painted sand. She is the alter ego of video and performance artist Shana Moulton, one of ten New York-based artists being profiled in Art21’s “New York Close-Up” Series. The protagonist of Moulton’s long-running Whispering Pines (2002 – ) series, Cynthia is the digital age’s American dreamer.
