MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ: House With Ocean View was for me an experiment. When I came to New York, it was just after September 11, and I found New York so much changed. I found New York and people living here ...
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An homage in three acts: Louise Lawler shares a postcard, Christopher Williams remembers Baldessari’s studio, and Stephen Prina sings one of the great Conceptualist’s paintings. Christopher Williams, ...
“It’s like a fellow I once knew in El Paso. One day, he just took all his clothes off and jumped in a mess of cactus. I asked him that same question, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘It seemed to be a good idea at ...
The Learning Tree. 1969. Gordon Parks I saw this film when I was 18 years old, and Gordon Parks was at that time one of my heroes. So to see a film about his childhood in Kansas was so riveting and ...
In France, the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded in 1648 under the aegis of Louis XIV, began organizing an annual exhibition in 1667. Because the recurring location for this event was ...
Elizabeth Catlett ’s terra cotta sculpture Mother and Child stands less than a foot off of its pedestal, but it feels much larger. It conveys an expansiveness that comes, to my mind, from the uncanny ...
We hope these will help create even the smallest shift to make things a bit more bearable. It’s okay to feel grief, anger, confusion, and to feel exhausted, unfocused, and unmotivated. Just like this ...
“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take ...
On the occasion of MoMA’s recent acquisition of more than 200 works by Ken Jacobs, and the presentation of three of his films in Gallery 411: Ken Jacobs: Deep Cuts, we sat down with one of cinema’s ...
Our photogrammetry projects have mainly focused on sculptures and other obviously 3D objects. But every painting also has dimension and shape, which is most noticeable in works like The Starry Night ...
The artist talks about Claude Monet, the muscle memory of painting, and why he’s packing a tube of orange paint for his summer in Maine.