L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A weekly column by Catherine Wagley Junior year of college, I made a plaster carrying case for my favorite coffee mug. The mug wasn’t mine. At least not legitimately. I’d borrowed it from a guy who ran a Vegan co-op, and loved it too much to give back. It was extra-tall, square-shaped—who has a mug with four corners?—and[…..]
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[…..]
L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A weekly column by Catherine Wagley A block of Grand Avenue in downtown L.A. was completely blocked off a few days ago, but hanging across the barricades was a big red arrow pointing down Bunker Hill with “jurors” written across it. No other signs told passers-by anything about the construction or about detours, but to let the jurors[…..]
With the work of over forty artists, History in Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow is a sizeable exhibition; but its scale is not only warranted, it is necessary. If the internet age ushered in a global culture of multiplicity, then History in Art demonstrates the contemporary attitude toward the formation of a historical record: individual voices make up a flexible, imaginative[…..]
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[…..]
Dwarves, videos, homemade t-shirts and cardboard tanks: this is what you’ll find in Happenings Against Communism by the Orange Alternative at the Galeria Miedzynarodowego Centrum Kultury in Krakow. It’s a multi-roomed tour of Polish protest in the 1980s, the retrospective of a social practice movement that swept an entire country. Although the tone of the exhibition is playfully iconoclastic—that’s the whole point—I often found myself[…..]
