January, 2016

Yo-Yos & Half Squares: Contemporary California Quilts at the Oakland Museum of California

Willia Ette Graham, Johnnie Alberta Wade, and Arbie Williams. Mamaloo, 1992; denim, cotton flannel; 76 x 68 in. Courtesy of the Eli Leon Collection and the Oakland Museum of California. Photo: Terry Lorant.

Shotgun Reviews are an open forum where we invite the international art community to contribute timely, short-format responses to an exhibition or event. If you are interested in submitting a Shotgun Review, please click this link for more information. In this Shotgun Review, Elena Harvey Collins reviews Yo-Yos & Half Squares: Contemporary California Quilts at the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland. On view at the Oakland Museum of[…..]

Otobong Nkanga in Conversation with Clare Molloy at Kadist Paris

From our friends at Kadist Art Foundation in Paris, today we bring you a video of Clare Molloy in conversation with Nigerian artist Otobong Nkanga. They discuss Nkanga’s exhibition Comot Your Eyes Make I Borrow You Mine, which was on view from September 27 through December 20, 2015. Nkanga says, explaining the title, “In a way, traveling and going through all these places, I had only the eyes of others.” 

Happy New Year!

Ellsworth Kelly. Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance II, 1951;
Cut-and-pasted color-coated paper and pencil on four sheets of paper;
38 1/4 x 38 1/4 in.

We’re very proud to say that 2015 was an exceptional year for Daily Serving! The California College of the Arts became our publisher and we partnered with Kadist Art Foundation to create a funded arts-writing fellowship in Mexico City. We published our 100th Help Desk art-advice column, covered major art-world stories like the 56th Venice Biennale and the opening of the new Whitney and Broad Museums, and also turned[…..]