There is another art fair in Los Angeles. Art fairs are synonymous with crowded, cavernous booths, prepackaged artwork, and most of all: money. But, this new art fair in Los Angeles does what very few art fairs have managed in the past; PULSE has combined a strong, experimental group of galleries and project spaces with actual money making. Combining gallery booths with project spaces for[…..]
From the DS archives brings you an interview with Laurel Nakadate, her ten-year retrospective was on view at MoMA PS1 earlier this year. Today is the last day of the New York Art Book Fair at PS1, don’t miss it! This interview was originally posted on March 3, 2011 by Bean Gilsdorf: Laurel Nakadate’s work uses unassuming means to memorable effect. Oops! (2000) is a[…..]
Sean McFarland discusses his recent projects Pictures of the Earth and Dark Pictures as a part of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts‘ Bay Area Now 6. Read the DailyServing review of BAN6 here.
Today’s feature is brought to you by our friends at Flavorwire, where Alison Nastasi briefly discusses Berlin-based street artist EVOL‘s newest project. In Nordkreuz (“Northern Cross”), Berlin-based street artist EVOL has created a miniature, underground city in the fields of Hamburg, Germany. The installation — which took him eight days to complete — found the artist outside of his typical urban environment, digging into a[…..]
In honor of the beginning of Autumn, today from the DS Archives we bring you the sobering mystery of Johannes Kahrs. Kahrs’ second solo exhibition at Luhring Augustine is on view until October 22, 2011. The following article was originally published by Julie Henson on February 16, 2010. I have to admit, there is nothing more impressive to me than a well executed painting, and[…..]
Today from the DS archives we bring you the digital op-art and often dreamily graphic Tauba Auerbach. Auerbach’s show at Glen Horrowitz Bookseller’s East Hampton Gallery closes tomorrow so hurry over! If you miss it worry not, she will be speaking at this year’s New York Art Book Fair held at PS1 in Queens. This article was originally posted on September 8, 2009 by Rebekah[…..]
Today’s article is brought to us from our friends at Flavorwire, where Marina Galperina discusses California-based photographer Mike Brodie and his images of youth on the rails of America. At eighteen, self-taught photographer Mike Brodie rode the rails of America, shooting fellow box car hoppers and traveling youths with a Polaroid SX-70. Nicknamed “The Polaroid Kidd,” over the course of three years, the accidental photojournalist[…..]
