Spotlight: Iliyan Ivanov
"A sense of rawness translating in the meaning of openness.”
Paul Zimmerman in conversation with Iliyan Ivanov
Paul Zimmerman: You were born in Bulgaria and have been living in the US for many...
Critics, scholars—and even museum’s own curator—condemn decision to postpone Philip Guston show over Ku Klux Klan imagery
The Art Newspaper - Move is deemed “cowardly” and “patronising” after joint statement from host museums including National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and London’s Tate Modern. - read more ...
With His Dizzying New Videos, Artist Bruce Nauman Is Less a Jester of Contemporary Life Than a Prophet of What’s to Come
artnet news - Bruce Nauman has made a career out of unsettling audiences—or at least, shaking up the dailiness of life—with a various-and-sundry practice that has stretched from the absurdist, at-times whimsica...
How MoMA and the CIA Conspired to Use Unwitting Artists to Promote American Propaganda During the Cold War
artnet news - When the US government established the CIA in 1947, it included a division known as the Propaganda Assets Inventory, a branch of psychological warfare intended to boost pro-American messaging duri...
A New App Takes Users Inside the Conceptual World and Studio of Artist Sol LeWitt
artnet news - Understanding the work of a conceptual artist like the late Sol LeWitt can take some study. Fortunately, Microsoft is now giving users an inside look into LeWitt’s life and career with a new app t...
A Pocket Guide to Women Artists Overlooked by History
Hyperallergic - Women artists have long been systematically excluded, ignored, or erased in the history of art. Unfair? Yes. Biased? Yes. Historically inaccurate? Indisputably. - read more ...
Spotlight: Sonja Kalb
"During this pandemic, people have rediscovered their longing for beauty and nature."
Paul Zimmerman in conversation with Sonja Kalb
Paul Zimmerman: Let’s start from the beginning. What’s yo...
Deborah Roberts’s Gripping Collages Reconfigure Black Girlhood
artsy - Deborah Roberts wasn’t born a triplet, but she often felt like it growing up. Two of her sisters and herself were all born within two years of each other. - read more ...
Yowshien Kuo’s Cowboy Paintings Challenge Whitewashed Portrayals of the American West
artsy - Yowshien Kuo’s paintings are filled with rattlesnakes, gallon hats, and other yeehaw imagery, but there are no white cowboys here. Instead, we see Asian men: shooting guns with their tongues out; wrangl...
Major Artists Demand LACMA Remove Board Member Who Owns Prison Telecom Company
Hyperallergic - Tom Gores owns a telecom company that “rakes in more than $700 million per year charging egregious rates for phone calls from prisons, jails, and immigrant detention centers.” - read more ...