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Jonathan Horowitz
Jonathan Horowitz discusses his Free Store at Art Basel
June 2013
Jonathan Horowitz is a New York–based artist known for his often-sardonic examination of value systems in media, culture, and politics. Here, he discusses his Free Store, which he first presented in 2009 at Sadie Coles and has since recreated… READ ON
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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
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Monica Ross
Monica Ross on Anniversary—an act of memory
June 2013
The works of British artist Monica Ross employ drawing, performance, video, and text to address questions of memory and history. Ross’s project Anniversary—an act of memory celebrates its culminating fifth year this year, with the concluding… READ ON
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Tony Feher
Tony Feher discusses his retrospective
June 2013
Artist Tony Feher is the subject of a twenty-five-year retrospective that originated at the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston and is on view at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, until September 15. Feher, known … READ ON
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Tavares Strachan
Tavares Strachan talks about his work in the inaugural Bahamas pavilion
May 2013
The artist representing the inaugural Bahamas pavilion at the Fifty-Fifth Venice Biennale is Bahamian Tavares Strachan, who has had solo shows at the MIT List Visual Arts Center as well as at the Brooklyn Museum, where in 2009 he exhibited … READ ON
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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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Tobias Berger
Tobias Berger talks about “Inflation!”
May 2013
“Inflation!” surges as a continuation of the M+ Mobile project, an initiative started last year by M+, a museum for visual culture that is set to open in Hong Kong in 2017. The exhibition, featuring seven colossal inflatable sculptures … READ ON
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Brigid Berlin
Brigid Berlin discusses life and art
May 2013
Brigid Berlin is an artist, actress, and one of the most memorable personalities to emerge from Andy Warhol’s coterie. In 2000, she was the subject of a documentary, Pie in the Sky: the Brigid Berlin Story, which was directed by Vincent … READ ON
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Holly Woodlawn
Holly Woodlawn talks about art and life
May 2013
Holly Woodlawn gained initial fame as one of the Warhol Superstars in the 1960s, and by the ’70s she had also earned a reputation as a gifted actress, singer, and cabaret performer. Now the subject of an in-process documentary, Woodlawn … READ ON
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Nancy Rubins
Nancy Rubins on her latest large-scale public sculpture
May 2013
Just steps from the Seine, a tangled mass of aluminum rowboats, kayaks, and canoes arches across a typically busy courtyard on l’Université Paris Diderot’s campus. Echoing the steely gray Parisian skies under which it was unveiled this… READ ON