Remembering Frederick Weston
Art Forum - BEFORE I CAN PEN ANY TRIBUTE, or remembrance, for and to my friend and artistic colleague, the visual artist, fashion designer, and poet Frederick Weston, I have to say I did not expect him to die. ...
SEDUCTIVE PARTICIPATION AND THE OPPRESSION OF METRICS
Art in America - Can an artist engage with surveillance technologies without being complicit in their use for control and oppression? Audiences tend to treat interactive works as a fun spectacle, a chance to ta...
Art That Stirs Creativity
artnews - It was Virgil Abloh’s idea to use David with the Head of Goliath for my album Pray for Paris. When he was doing his Pyrex Vision clothes back in the day, he was using those kinds of images already. W...
Spotlight: John Drooyan
“Making art is a learning experience.”
Paul Zimmerman in conversation with John Drooyan
Paul Zimmerman: There is a sense of shifting space and time in your work. Where does this complexity come from?
John ...
How Frank Bowling’s Lush Abstractions Made Him One of Today’s Top British Artists
Art news - In the catalogue for Bowling’s 2019 Tate Britain survey, artist Sonia Boyce writes that, in his later work, Bowling is dealing with the point at which “the weight of materiality meets the weight of h...
Spotlight: Estela Robles Galliano
“I paint my personal life.”
Paul Zimmerman in conversation with Estela Robles Galliano
Paul Zimmerman: When did you become interested in art?
Estela Robles Galliano: As a child, I really liked to...
Spotlight: Winnie Hui
“A message of inner strength.”
Paul Zimmerman in conversation with Winnie Hui
Paul Zimmerman: Tell us about your background. How did you meme interested art?
Winnie Hui: In my childhood memory, there was a...
What Drives Market Speculation After an Artist’s Untimely Death
artsy - During the 1970s, a long-running legal case concerning Mark Rothko’s estate dominated news in the art world. After Rothko’s death by suicide in 1970, a fierce battle waged between his heirs, executors,...
Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet
NY Times - In a landmark antitrust complaint, the Justice Department is targeting a secretive partnership that is worth billions of dollars to both companies. - read more ...
The PLA’s New Push for Military Technology Innovation
The Diplomat - When it comes to competition with China, General Charles Q. Brown Jr. is a visionary. Shortly after becoming the chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force (USAF) this summer, he issued a directive to...