John Arthur Peetz
“Jane Freilicher: Painter Among the Poets”
Tibor De Nagy Gallery
May 2013
The poet John Ashbery wrote, “[traditional art] can offer no very real assurances to its acolytes and since traditions are always going out of fashion it is more dangerous and therefore more worthwhile than experimental art.” It may be … READ ON
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Paul Laffoley
Kent Fine Art
January 2013
“The Boston Visionary Cell,” an exhibition named after the artist guild that Paul Laffoley founded in 1971 in Boston with several poets, filmmakers, and engineers, unfolds through two indistinct interpretive lenses: Laffoley as theorist… READ ON
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Nayland Blake
Nayland Blake talks about “FREE!LOVE!TOOL!BOX!”
January 2013
Nayland Blake is an artist, teacher, activist, writer, and kink enthusiast who explores the ways in which artmaking and community construction can mutually inform each other. His latest show, “FREE!LOVE!TOOL!BOX!,” is on view at the Yerba… READ ON
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Michael Duncan
Michael Duncan talks about Jess: O! Tricky Cad & Other Jessoterica
November 2012
Michael Duncan is a critic and curator as well as a corresponding editor for Art in America. He is co-curator of the forthcoming traveling exhibition “An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and their Circle,” which opens in June … READ ON
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Meredith Monk
Judson at 50: Meredith Monk
October 2012
Meredith Monk is one of the most prolific artists of her generation. Her body of work extends across numerous media, and she has performed many roles throughout her career––including composer, singer, director, choreographer, and visual… READ ON
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Mary Weatherford
Brennan & Griffin
September 2012
Los Angeles–based artist Mary Weatherford is quite the mistress of illusion—or allusion, as it were. Through her adept utilization of a variety of techniques and material manipulations, she conjures a phantasmagoria of postwar artistic … READ ON
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Bernadette Corporation
Bernadette Corporation talks about “the final days of contemporary art”
September 2012
Bernadette Corporation is a New York–based collaborative with three principal members: Bernadette Van-Huy, John Kelsey, and Antek Walczak. Since the early 1990s, the collaborative has explored processes of production from event planning to… READ ON
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Julia Rommel
Bureau
May 2012
According to legend, Thomas Jefferson gave Delaware the nickname “the diamond state” (presumably for its strategic location on the eastern seaboard). Today, however, it seems as if the state exists in absentia––noticeably devoid of … READ ON
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Matt Wolf
Matt Wolf talks about I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard
May 2012
Matt Wolf is a Brooklyn–based documentary filmmaker. His first feature, Wild Combination (2008), focuses on the avant-garde cellist and disco producer Arthur Russell. Wolf is currently at work on his second feature film, Teenage, and his … READ ON
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Richard Hawkins
Richard Hawkins talks about his work in the Whitney Biennial
February 2012
The Texas-born and Los Angeles–based artist Richard Hawkins makes work that probes the connections, juxtapositions, and slippages among classical sculpture, French literature, the abject, and the teenage dreamboat. His 2010 midcareer survey… READ ON