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Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu on her new work and exhibitions
May 2013
For her first exhibition in a New York gallery in over a decade, Julie Mehretu has strategically installed her new paintings to mimic the curatorial approach taken in her current show at White Cube in London, which terminates in the expansive… READ ON
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David J. Merritt
KANSAS Gallery
May 2013
For his latest exhibition, David J. Merritt brought in a utility locator employed by the city to spray-paint neon-orange lines demarcating the water pipes and electrical lines that run under and above the gallery. The markings evoke a … READ ON
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Gene Beery
Gene Beery discusses his life and work
April 2013
Throughout his fifty-year career, California-based painter Gene Beery has been described as an expressionist, Pop artist, Minimalist, and Conceptualist. His text-based and earlier figurative canvases tend to show all of these strains of art,… READ ON
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Lundahl & Seitl
Lundahl & Seitl on their latest synesthetic collaboration
March 2013
Swedish duo Lundahl & Seitl’s most recent installation, The Memory of W. T. Stead, in a collaboration with experimental pianist Cassie Yukawa, places the visitor inside the structure of classical music by enhancing the experience of listening… READ ON
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Mark Dion
Mark Dion speaks about his latest installation
March 2013
New York–based artist Mark Dion has moonlighted as an amateur geologist, ichthyologist, and archaeologist, while working with a wide range of research material. His recent work, Curator’s Office, 2013, is currently set among the many … READ ON
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Deborah Kass
Paul Kasmin Gallery
February 2013
Deborah Kass’s “My Elvis +” consists of a collection of works made by the artist in the 1990s, works that are on view together for the first time in this gallery’s new space (in a building that recently housed Bungalow 8—a celebrity… READ ON
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Karole Armitage
Karole Armitage discusses her life and work
February 2013
Self-professed rebel Karole Armitage leaped into fame when she worked with Madonna on the pop star’s music video for “Vogue” in 1990. Born in 1954 in Wisconsin, Armitage was exposed to ballet at an early age and went on to dance for … READ ON
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Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin on the fictions of being an art celebrity
January 2013
In the second segment of this two-part interview conducted during Art Basel Miami Beach, Tracey Emin addresses the fictions of being an art celebrity. Her first interview delved into her new self-portraits, which are drawn from photographs,… READ ON
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Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin talks about her new drawings
December 2012
In simultaneous shows at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, White Cube São Paulo, and at Galleria Lorcan O’Neill in Rome, London-based artist Tracey Emin is exploring new territory, and she hasn’t been back home in over… READ ON
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“Deep Space (insides)”
Joe Sheftel Gallery
December 2012
Upon loading Harm van den Dorpel’s website, etherealself.com, visitors are greeted by a notice that it might record them, appropriating the user’s embedded webcam like a ventriloquist would the watchful eye of his dummy. Launched in 2009,… READ ON