Tag: artists

From way back in ’80s Philadelphia, Elizabeth Isadora Gold remembers her first writing teacher, the mail art artist/lyricist Stu Horn.

It seems like everyone in the world loves “Fetch the Bolt Cutters.” So why don’t I? On the isolation of disconnection.

When asked if there was “anything people don’t understand” about him, Gorey responded: “Yes. No. Yes. No.” A new biography by Mark Dery attempts to sort myth from reality.

Eloghosa Osunde contemplates the role of marginalized artists in online activism.

Carolita Johnson looks back on the many ways she’s tried to juggle work with her *work.*

Henry Taylor’s portraits are sacred objects that lovingly center black subjects and black interiority.

At 64, Nell Painter left a secure teaching position and went back to school to study art.

Arcis is a new art storage facility in Harlem that offers its clients a Foreign Trade Zone. But are they selling the art world a luxury tax haven, or just banking on confusion?

Did Dana Schutz’s painting engage with her subject, Emmett Till, ethically and responsibly?

Curator Michael Auping on the forty years he spent interviewing artists in their studios.

Why a rare Pepe meme is now easier to authenticate than a Leonardo.

Abigail Rasminsky dreamed of becoming a professional dancer. Then she got hurt.

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in arts and culture writing.

The artists who use Craigslist to find subjects and ideas have found a willing group of participants unfazed by unusual encounters.

Journalist Erika Hayasaki uses science to show how motherhood can improve creativity.

The work of artist Jimmie Durham relies heavily on Native American themes. Durham is not Native American.

The staff at Laney Tower take a close look at the past, present, and future of Oakland’s artistic community.

Factory workers and artists struggle to keep their work spaces in this Seoul neighborhood.

At Harper’s, Smith doesn’t really feel like she is engaging in her subject matter with much care or heart.

Taiye Selasi, Yaa Gyasi, and Toyin Ojin Odutola expand notions of blackness with layered, nuanced artwork.

On the project that almost drove Jerry Saltz into despair.

I would describe [my career] as a slow incline with various dips rather than a steep trajectory, but I was relatively young when I did a show at DIA, then the Guggenheim, and represented the United States at the Venice Biennale. During that time, I also had a baby. Those three shows all took place within a few years, […]

During the 90s there was something of an arms race to see who could write the biggest deal. That is, the deal with the most money being spent on the band’s behalf. In a singularly painless contest the money would either be paid to the band as a royalty, which would take that money out […]

Memory is your greatest ally and your primary source material, because memory is your body as it was in the world and the world as it was and will be; memory is the people you have loved or wanted to love in the world, and what are we if not bodies filled with reminiscences about […]

A professional musician calls for a rethinking of how we value (and pay) artists in the digital era: Rather, fairness for musicians is a problem that requires each of us to individually look at our own actions, values and choices and try to anticipate the consequences of our choices. I would suggest to you that, […]