Lauren O’Neill-Butler
Rhonda Lieberman
Rhonda Lieberman talks about “The Cat Show”
June 2013
CATS AND ART TOGETHER AT LAST AT WHITE COLUMNS proclaims the press release for “The Cat Show,” an exhibition curated by writer and artist Rhonda Lieberman and developed in partnership with New York’s Social Tees Animal Rescue. Here … READ ON
500 WORDS
Birgit Jürgenssen
June 2013
Austrian-born feminist artist Birgit Jürgenssen produced a wide variety of work—paintings, photographs, performances, sculptures, collages, drawings, and clothing, among other forms and media—before her untimely death in 2003 at age … READ ON
IN PRINT Summer 2013 [TOC]
Dana Hoey
May 2013
The title and content of Dana Hoey’s latest series of photographs riffs on classic works of French feminist theory—Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949) and Luce Irigaray’s This Sex Which Is Not One (1977)—while ushering in a… READ ON
IN PRINT May 2013 [TOC]
Richard Foreman
Richard Foreman discusses life and work
April 2013
Theater pathfinder and MacArthur “genius” Richard Foreman has played many roles over the past five decades, diligently writing, directing, and designing his numerous plays, operas, films, and videos. This year his Ontological-Hysteric … READ ON
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Lucy McKenzie
Lucy McKenzie discusses her current exhibition and projects
April 2013
Lucy McKenzie is a Brussels-based Scottish artist. In 2008, with designers Beca Lipscombe and Bernie Reid, she launched Atelier E.B., a company that works on fashion and design projects with a particular emphasis on applied arts and artisan… READ ON
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The Rijkstuff
The opening of the Rijksmuseum
April 2013 AMSTERDAM
NACHTEN WACHTEN. Until the Rijksmuseum’s official public opening/celebration this coming weekend, Amsterdammers settle for its mostly untouched neo-gothic exterior and a massive Maarten Baas–designed digital clock on it, counting down … READ ON
DIARY
Shannon Ebner
April 2013
To some extent, Shannon Ebner’s work has always played with thresholds of legibility. A case in point, the large-scale print Instrumentals (all works cited, 2013) was hung in the back room of her recent exhibition at Wallspace, where it … READ ON
IN PRINT April 2013 [TOC]
Primary Information
Primary Information on their latest and upcoming projects
March 2013
Primary Information was formed by James Hoff and Miriam Katzeff in 2006 and has since published a range of artists’ books and writings by artists, in addition to reissuing seminal magazines such as Avalanche and REAL LIFE. Hoff and Katzeff… READ ON
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Jay DeFeo
Whitney Museum of American Art
March 2013
Four years ago, the Whitney presented an exhibition by a renowned artist whose work, for some, wavered on the brink of kitsch. Georgia O’Keeffe, so celebrated for her petunias and lilies, seemed like another person: The bold and graphic … READ ON
PICKS
Nick Relph
March 2013
In Nick Relph’s recent exhibition, two rhyming rooms recalled a garage, while a pair of framed portraits—showing dealer Gavin Brown by parked cars—hinted at one of the building’s past functions. In the first gallery, twelve upright car… READ ON