Author Archive

Our current model of arts patronage is failing, but there are no easy solutions.

A photographer of twentieth-century cultural luminaries, octogenarian Duane Michals, subject of a retrospective at the Morgan Library in New York, has recently pivoted to film.

In his self-deprecating paintings and videos, Trevor Shimizu pokes fun at artistic pretension while exploring the often painful complexity of
selfhood.

Protests against sexual violence have rocked Mexico City and galvanized a community of feminist artists.

The Brooklyn-based artists discusses the arc of her career, from her performance work with femninist collective LTTR in the 1990s to the materially varied geometric abstractions she produces today.

This month’s most notable museum exhibition openings, art fairs, biennials, awards, and museum acquisitions.

A London-based artist and filmmaker confronts the challenges of immigration in a global society.

Cameron Shaw, the new deputy director and chief curator of the California African American Museum in Los Angeles, tells us what’s on her mind.

A literary scholar and an artist discuss why clouds have become ubiquitous metaphors in a networked society.

The consulting team of Howie Chen and Andrew Lampert, artist-curators, offer tongue-in-cheek takes on art world dilemmas.