Ever ready to explore new paths, however, in January 1965 Asawa had enthusiastically accepted an invitation from June Wayne, founder of Tamarind Lithography Workshop (now Tamarind Institute), to be an ...

Robert Frank’s films include The Sin of Jesus, his 1961 adaptation of an Isaac Babel short story; OK End Here (1963), an intimate chamber piece featuring an original score by the great free jazz ...

Lola and Aldo were founding members of Art+Positive—alongside several other NYC-based artists, including Hunter, Ray, and David Wojnarowicz. This ACT UP affinity group emerged in response to rampant ...

Hear from artists, writers, and therapists about what happens when art and grief collide.

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.

On Valentine’s Day 1970, David Mancuso began hosting regular, invitation-only dance parties at his home at 647 Broadway in New York City. Initially started as a way to make rent, these weekly ...

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 ...

I do not remember when I first met Richard Serra. But I do remember the first time I was bowled over by his work. It was in the fall of 1996 when I saw the monumental 58x64x70—the title describes the ...

Martha Naranjo Sandoval, Matarile Ediciones I started at Dashwood Books, a store specializing in art books, particularly photography. At a certain point I realized that by working there I had access ...

Early on, for example, Laurie Spiegel sent me a few options, the first being the original files of her piece Kepler’s Harmony of the World, which uses the astronomical sounds of planets; the other was ...

“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 ...

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 ...