Art
Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle
By Daniel BairdFrom the moment of his first exhibits in Los Angeles and New York in 1991, Matthew Barney was catapulted into art world fame and cult status.
The Significance of Sigmar Polke
By Paul MattickThe very idea of art’s exaltedness led ambitious artists to aspire to a public importance, at some odds with their actual position, as producers for the luxury trade.
Everything is Finished Nothing is Dead: An Article About Abstract Painting
By Chris MartinI remember driving on the New Jersey Turnpike arguing with Phong Bui about who made the first abstract painting. I said that Kandinsky had gradually camouflaged his imagery and made abstractions by 1911. Phong said Kupka made completely abstract paintings in 1909 and that
In Conversation
John Yau with Joan Waltemath
I write fiction, poetry and essays, generally that’s what they would be called, and then I organize shows when I’m asked. I am the publisher/editor of a small press,
For Charles-Henri Ford— Another I Did Not Know
By Steve DalachinskyIts funny how memory works. Selective memory. What one chooses to remember. Forget.
The Citadel of Art
By Robert C. MorganIn traveling around to various panels and symposia where contemporary issues in art— or in visual representation, as the case might be— are given a forum, I am struck by the manner in which citadels are verbally constructed over and over again in order to fend off the notion of ambiguity in art.
