We Love You, Yoko
April 9, 2024
Kathleen Hanna— Yoko Ono was the first punk rock singer I ever heard, an early proponent of female rebellion in song. My parents didn’t go to college, and we didn’t… READ MORE
Tag: contemporary art
The Pull of Design: Notes on the Exhibition Ed Ruscha/Now Then
November 28, 2023
Jennifer Quick— Ed Ruscha’s major career retrospective opened to much fanfare this past September at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The large-scale survey of the artist’s career, curated… READ MORE
Ep. 125 — Vid Simoniti on the Relationship Between Politics and Contemporary Art
November 14, 2023
In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk to Vid Simoniti about his new book, Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Pandora | Spotify | Soundcloud
Artists and the Rothko Chapel: 50 Years of Inspiration
September 15, 2021
Frauke V. Josenhans— The Rothko Chapel is a place of pilgrimage: artists and art lovers are drawn by the cycle of 14 paintings that Mark Rothko created specifically for the… READ MORE
Metro Pictures, Gallery of the Pictures Generation, Calls it Quits
May 17, 2021
Andy Grundberg– The announcement that Metro Pictures will close its gallery in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York at the end of the year emphatically signals – if any emphasis… READ MORE
Ep. 82 – How Photography Became Contemporary Art
April 16, 2021
As Michael S. Roth wrote in his review in The Washington Post, “The maturation of Grundberg as a renowned critic coincides with the maturation of photography as an art form… READ MORE
Changeability for Survival: Sanford Biggers’s Codeswitch
February 18, 2021
Interview with the artist by David Ebony Sanford Biggers is a multifaceted, multi-talented artist with a singular, global vision. A major touring museum solo of works by the Los Angeles-born (1970),… READ MORE
… in which Nick Mauss answers some questions about Transmissions
February 16, 2021
Transmissions is an installation, a collage of several art forms, a revisionist investigation of New York modernism and sexual expression, and an essay in queer theory…. The juxtapositions show that… READ MORE
Kerry James Marshall’s “SOB, SOB” and David Dabydeen’s Philosophical Aesthetics
November 9, 2020
Abigail Zitin— I remember it being at eye level; else how would it have caught my eye? I had gone to see Mastry, an exhibition of works by the African-American painter Kerry… READ MORE
Torosaurus, Sea Form: What’s in a Name?
June 18, 2020
James Prosek— For an exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery and an accompanying book, both titled James Prosek: Art, Artifact, Artifice, I juxtaposed objects from the collections of the… READ MORE
Recent Posts
-
Ep. 134—The Therapeutic Benefits of Reading Greek Tragedy
- Selected Poems From The Earth in the Attic
- Empires, Wars, Collapse: 1914-2024
- The Universal Whole: A Conversation With Can Xue and Annelise Finegan Wasmoen
- We Love You, Yoko
- Prius Politics: How Toyota Won the Hybrid Car Market
- The High-Tech Revolution is Transforming the Very Foundations of Human Existence