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Interview with Tercerunquinto

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Today from our friends at Kadist Art Foundation, we bring you curator Michele Fiedler’s interview with Tercerunquinto. The group, comprising artists Julio César Castro Carreón, Gabriel Cázares Salas, and Rolando Flores Tovar, discusses collaboration, power, architectural intervention, and “social and urban development.” 

From the Archives – Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties at the Brooklyn Museum

David Hammons. The Door, 1969; wood, acrylic sheet, and pigment construction, 79 x 48 x 15 in. Courtesy of Collection of Friends, the Foundation of the California African American Museum, Los Angeles.

Today from our archives, we bring you Lia Wilson’s review of a recent exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. Wilson explains the importance of this exhibition: “Witness does the essential and painful work of revealing how an inadequate visual cultural record can come to mirror inadequate social reform. There can be no greater demonstration of the need for a more diverse and inclusive art-historical canon and[…..]

All That Glitters Is Not Gold at the Phoenix Art Museum

Alfred A. Cohn. Untitled, c. 1920; platinum print. Courtesy of the Artist and the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona.

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, Christina Nafziger reviews All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Platinum Photography from the Center for Creative Photography at the Phoenix Art Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. In a world[…..]

Context Is Everything: Visiting di Rosa

Viola Frey. Studio View— One Man Splitting, 1983; alkyd oil on canvas; 72 x 96 in. Courtesy of di Rosa collection, Napa.

Today from our partners at Art Practical, we bring you an excerpt from author Maria Porges’ essay on the di Rosa in Napa, California. Porges explains: “Other museums may bear the name of a founder, but as far as I know, there really is no place quite like this one—historic home museum, contemporary white-walled space, and sculpture park rolled into one.” This article was originally published on December 4, 2014.[…..]

William Kentridge’s Poetic Cinema

William Kentridge. Drawing for the film Other Faces, (Crowds in city streets), 2011;
Charcoal and colored pencil on paper, 27.5 x 48 in.

“Other Faces” assumes the feel of reportage, as if we are witnessing certain events from the struggle against colonialism in South Africa’s turbulent past.

But What You Want Is Far Away at the Oakland Museum of California

Phoebe Osborne. God Sees Everything, November 7, 2014 (performance still); Courtesy of the Artist and the Oakland Museum of California. Photo: Charlie Villyard.

In God Sees Everything, directed and choreographed by Phoebe Osborne, a complex weave of everything Californian coalesces.

José León Cerrillo and Ilja Karilampi at Kiria Koula

José León Cerrillo and Ilja Karilampi, 2014; installation view, Kiria Koula, San Francisco. Courtesy of the Artists and Kiria Koula.

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, Marion Cousin reviews  José León Cerrillo and Ilja Karilampi at Kiria Koula in San Francisco. Founded by Colombian curator Juana Berrío and Mexican duo Leticia Vilalta and Rodrigo[…..]