A biblical parable tells of a wayward son who leaves home for a distant land after demanding his inheritance from his father. Squandering his riches quickly, he repentantly returns to his father’s house hoping to be hired as one of his father’s servants but find instead, his father’s unexpected kindness and forgiveness. Christine Ay Tjoe’s current site-specific show The Famous One from Lucas # I[…..]
Katarzyna Przezwanska‘s work is both playful and serious: riotous colors precisely define spaces for objects on a desk or in a room, or grace the facade of a dour old concrete building. She is equally adept at using pop brights and cool, pensive tones to create moods or to reference a particular history or locale. Her installation in the most recent Frieze Art Fair elicited[…..]
This week from the DS Archives we bring you Contraband, Taryn Simon’s 2010 exhibition at Gagosian, Beverly Hills. Simons’ new series, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters is on view at the Tate Modern until January 2, 2012. This article was originally posted by Seth Curcio on September 29, 2010: Through the process of documenting America’s foundation through both mythology and quotidian objects,[…..]
L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A weekly column by Catherine Wagley Over Thanksgivings, which my sister and I spent with our aunt and grandmother in Atlanta, all of us used to go to the Atlanta Christmas House. It’s always a big, newly renovated or newly built Victorian-style mansion in which everything is up-to-date and in its place. A local designer has decorated and[…..]
This week from the DS Archives we bring you the sculptural works of Cy Twombly. Don’t miss the current exhibition of his works at the MoMA NY, on view until January 2, 2012. This article was originally posted by Seth Curcio on November 24, 2009: Artist Cy Twombly has created a new series of sculptures, under the humble title Eight Sculptures. These new objects are[…..]
#Hashtags: Viral Thoughts on Politics, Arts, and Culture This month, #Hashtags features an essay by the Mexican-American artist and writer Robert Gomez on the relationship between online images of drug cartel violence and Aztec rituals. Please be aware that this article contains graphic representations of violence. The author and the editors of the site would like to make clear that we are not interested in[…..]
Today from the DS Archives we bring George Jenne’s exhibition, Don’t Look Now at Civilian Art Projects, Washington DC. Jenne is currently in the group show, Pan’s Pipes, with Ryan Hill and Erick Jackson at Civilian Art Projects, on view until October 22, 2011. This article was originally posted on January 21, 2010 by Rebekah Drysdale: Civilian Art Projects in Washington, D.C. is currently presenting[…..]
