Artforum – Citing an analysis of data released by the Education Department, the New York Times found that Yale University’s master’s programs in visual arts and music, Harvard University’s master’s degree in…
by Paul Zimmerman The first aspect that draws us to Gustaf Elias’s photographs, exhibited recently at Artifact Projects, is the sense of conflicting tensions that runs throughout his work. His…
NY Times – After the State Department overhauled the process for choosing an artist for the Venice Biennale, it gave control to a woman who previously owned a pet food…
NY Times – At Site Santa Fe, 71 artists were inspired by Southwestern figures, from healers and novelists to Navajo code talkers. Here’s a guide to the highlights. – read…
“A space to question, dream, and seek new possibilities…” Paul Zimmerman in conversation with Pablo Diaz Carballo Paul Zimmerman: How did you get interested in art? Pablo Diaz Carballo: My interest in art…
Science – After being expelled from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid just before graduation in 1926 for insulting the examination panel, 22-yearold Salvador Dalí headed for Paris.…
BBC – They helped to make Vincent van Gogh among the most famous and influential painters in the history of art. Why did sunflowers obsess him and so many other…
Smithsonian Magazine – British artist and writer Ithell Colquhoun was a pioneer of Surrealist “automatism,” creating images from charcoal shavings or letting her unconscious take charge of a pen. Such methods had…