This Sunday From the DS Archives invites you to revisit the work of California artist, Julian Hoeber. You can see Hoeber’s current self-titled exhibition through March 12th at Blum and Poe in Los Angeles. Today’s DS Archive pick is from the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. This article was originally written by Catherine Wagley on October 9th, 2008. Julian Hoeber’s third solo show[…..]
Today’s article is brought to us from our friends at Flavorwire, where Paul Laster discusses the 10 most damaged goods in visual art. Art is both a precious commodity and a significant cultural symbol of our time. The museums and art centers that display the works are public domains, in which anything is likely to happen. Throw a bunch of publicity loving crackpots, wannabe performance[…..]
Today’s video is from our friends at ArtStars*, a traveling show about the contemporary art world, out to uncover the 7 Unsolved Mysteries of the Art World — one art scene, one country at a time. In this video, host, Nadja Sayej, discusses Michael Triegel’s commission by the Catholic Church to paint a portrait of Pope Benedict XVI. Here they are at the raucous celebration[…..]
Today’s feature From the DS Archives revisits our 2010 interview between Noah Simblist and Richard Patterson. Richard Patterson emerged in London at Damien Hirst’s Freeze exhibition in 1988 as one of the YBA group. After moving to New York he eventually settled in Dallas. He is represented by Timothy Taylor Gallery in London and James Cohan Gallery in New York. He is known for paintings[…..]
Today’s article is from our friends at Art Practical, where Matthew Harrison Tedford discusses the installation The Long March: Restart by artist Feng Mengbo currently on view at MoMA PS1. Feng Mengbo at MoMA PS1 demands that viewers participate in the work’s unraveling. The Long March: Restart (2008), the installation coterminous with the eponymous exhibition, is a video game. The exhibition marks the first time[…..]
On this Sunday from the DS Archives, reacquaint yourself with the exhibition, Laugh It Off, at Walter Maciel Gallery. This article was originally written by Allison Gibson on July 31, 2009. Walter Maciel has a loaded gun and is going to shoot the next motherfucker who says “Let me think about it.” Or so says one of the darkly comical pieces in the summer group[…..]
On this Sunday from the DS Archives, reacquaint yourself the work of Sanford Biggers. This article was originally written by Allison Gibson on March 11, 2010. Currently on view at Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum is a solo presentation of new work by internationally renowned, New York-based artist, Sanford Biggers. The work on view in the exhibition, entitled Moon Medicine, encompasses the breadth of Biggers’[…..]
