Jazz great Miles Davis once said, “Music exists in the spaces between the notes.” Language provokes us to name and describe empty spaces—like those that exist at the intersection of thought and memory. In Blanking Out, Will Rogan’s exhibition at Altman Siegel Gallery, a combination of sculptures and two-dimensional works reveals that the negative spaces are as important as the objects that create them. In[…..]
As a part of our partnership with Huff Post Arts, today we bring you a story written by Susan Michals about newly found photographs of Andy Warhol. (Image courtesy of Steve Wood) One of the most iconic faces of the 20th century is about to be rediscovered. On May 3, lost images of pop art icon Andy Warhol will be unveiled in Manhattan for the first time in public in[…..]
As a part of our ongoing partnership with Art Practical, today we bring you a review by Matt Sussman of the exhibition The Modern Monster at Queens Nail’s Gallery in San Francisco. “What kind of monster are you?” is the chorus from a single by the ’90s pop-punk group Slant 6.1 The question accuses the listener of being something other than human. However, the singer-guitarist Christina Billotte’s flat[…..]
Sometimes scholarship on punk can feels a bit blasphemous, but if Billy Idol shows up to a panel, he gives it some cred. Today from the DS Archives we bring you punks, hippies, and glam with two exhibitions examining the cultures, fashion and lifestyles. Glam! The Performance of Style is on view at the Tate Liverpool until May 12 and features the the work of David Hockney, Andy[…..]
William Eggleston is recognized for taking the ordinary and elevating it to levels of grandior that could have never been conceived for things so seemingly mundane. In celebration of his indelible mark on the history of photography, The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents “Art War With the Obvious,” a survey of well known and lesser known photographs by Eggleston. Today from the DS Archives we take a[…..]
As a part of our ongoing partnership with Art Practical, today we bring you a feature from writer Matt Sussman on Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s 2007 video installation Morakot (Emerald), currently on view at the UC Berkeley Art Museum (BAM/PFA) in Berkeley, California. Named after the abandoned Bangkok hotel in which it was filmed, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s 2007 video installationMorakot (Emerald) transforms the UC Berkeley Art Museum’s (BAM/PFA) small Matrix gallery into a kind of temporary residence.[…..]
As a part of our ongoing partnership with Art Practical, today we bring you a feature from writer Liz Glass on Sadie Barnette‘s exhibition at Ever Gold Gallery in San Francisco. Glitter and dirt; earthbound objects and slices of psychedelic space; the white cube and the club: these pairings are all present—and at odds—in Sadie Barnette’s exhibition, Composed and Performed. The exhibition is minimal in[…..]
