In the last two years, a new wave of enterprising gallerists have put down roots in LA, feeding the city’s appetite for unorthodox programming and experimental work.
This weekend, Arooj Aftab is returning to the Grammys to perform her song “Udhero Na”— and potentially nab a second award for Best Global Music Performance.
Contemporary Spanish painter Carlos Morago depicts realistic interior scenes that are mostly reduced to the bare minimum: light floors and walls and sporadical furniture. Empty corridors and rooms [...]
The Toghrol Tower is a 20 meters high tower located in the city of Rey in Iran made of bricks and Sarooj, a water-resistant mortar. It was erected in 1063, and according to some sources, it was [...]
Sandrine Marc is a photographer and artist based in Paris with a specific interest in self-made editions. She investigates urban and suburban territories through slow, long walks immersing herself [...]
American architect Claude Fayette Bragdon (1866-1946) was also an artist, writer and stage designer. He was based in Rochester, NY where he built his masterpiece, the New York Central Railroad [...]
The second album by British new wave band XTC did not feature any images. Instead, a written essay about how buyers are attracted by album covers to buy records was used.
The paragraph, which [...]
James Lipnickas is a New Haven-based artist and graphic designer. He creates highly evocative scenes representing small architectural stages in axonometric projection. Suspended stairwells, [...]
The palace of Charles V in Granada was built starting in 1527 as a summer palace for the emperor. The Renaissance building is located inside the Alhambra, the former Nasrid complex on Sabika hill, a [...]
For thirteen years I had an interest in echolocation jamming, ever since I read Lynne Peeples reporting in Scientific American on Aaron Cochran’s doctoral research into how tiger moths click to [...]
There is a symmetry between Corky Lee’s passing and the rise of Stop Anti-Asian Hate: the departure of Asian America’s greatest documentarian and its most visible recent efflorescence. Years [...]
To celebrate a year since the publication of Ari M. Brostoff’s essay collection, Missing Time, join n+1 for an evening with Brostoff and contributor Blair McClendon. They’ll discuss the book, [...]
Join n+1 for a discussion between the poets Eugene Ostashevsky and Genya Turovskaya. They’ll be discussing ghost languages, host languages, translation, and Ostashevsky’s new collection The [...]
She is cutting, wary, funny, and wise. Her style is what I wish I had instead of the chipper inner voice I’m stuck with. Nothing in Malcolm’s writing is dull or amiss unless she’s quoting [...]
That Panahi was arrested shortly after completing the film—and that he is now serving out the six-year prison sentence originally handed down in 2010 in Tehran’s infamous Ervin Prison—is an [...]
“You should see my kids,” Issam continued. At his home in La Capelette, a neighborhood in the tenth arrondissement, one child had been wearing face paint in the colors of the French flag, the [...]
On January 26 Sam Huber reviewed My Name is Andrea, Pratibha Parmar’s documentary about the feminist writer Andrea Dworkin, for the NYR Online. “The film is most valuable,” Huber writes, “for [...]
A decade ago Sabine Réthoré, a French mapmaker based near Marseille, tilted the map of the Mediterranean ninety degrees on its axis, positioning its western extent at the top and its eastern shore [...]
Kathleen Beauchamp was a shapeshifter with as many selves as Stendhal. Her pseudonyms included Katya, Katerina, Kissienka, Katoushka (the Russian variations of her name); her Maori personae were [...]
Lost wars, especially when defeat comes as a rude surprise, inevitably spark painful self-examination. Pundits and politicians, and then historians, generally ask the same questions. How could a [...]
The two most substantial documents of the conductor Carlos Kleiber’s career released in recent years—the epistolary biography Corresponding with Carlos by Charles Barber and Kleiber’s Complete [...]
In the ailanthus tree I saw myselfwafting between branches and theirunfallen flowers. I balancedin the air, perfecting a kind of nonchalancenobody needs anymore. I lacked theanalogy for what I [...]
In 1861 Charlotte Rothschild and her son Natty (the future 1st Lord Rothschild) left their mansion in Piccadilly for a summer holiday in Grasmere. Hotels in the Lake District at that time had a [...]
There were reactions. Some people found the balloon “interesting.” As a response this seemed inadequate to the immensity of the balloon, the suddenness of its appearance over the city, on the [...]
“The Duel That Was Not Fought”
by
Stephen Crane
Patsy Tulligan was not as wise as seven owls, but his courage could throw a shadow as long as the steeple of a cathedral. There were men [...]
Aug Stone’s novel The Ballad of Buttery Cake Ass publishes this week. Blurb form Stone’s website:
Two music obsessives embark on a hilarious quest to track down Buttery Cake [...]
Gianna Theodore in Kyle Abraham’s Our Indigo: If We Were a Love Song.
Over the past year I have read and reread Angelica Nuzzo’s book Approaching Hegel’s Logic, Obliquely, in which Nuzzo guides [...]
Photograph of A. M. Homes by Marion Ettlinger. Photograph of Yiyun Li by Basso Cannarsa/Agence Opale.
A few times a year, the writers Yiyun Li and A. M. Homes sit down to lunch. As friends, they [...]
Belted Galloway. Wikimedia Commons, Licensed under CCO 2.0.
The other day we went to Albany so I could return all eight items I had bought online from Athleta. The store was in a giant mall that [...]
I have seen the Mississippi. That is muddy water. I have seen the Saint Lawrence. That is crystal water. But the Thames is liquid history.
—John Burns, quoted in the Daily Mail, January 25, [...]
Years ago, while on assignment, I interviewed a man who spent what felt like hours showing me pictures of the various couches he was thinking of purchasing for his new home. The couches were [...]
Still from Anya Zalevskaya’s Posle priliva (2020). Courtesy of the director.
In the fall of 2019 I was newly living in the Midwest. In my free time, I’d take long, aimless walks, trying to tune [...]
Pavement. Photograph by Marcus Roth, Courtesy of Matador Records.
One of the more remarkable things about being behind the wheel of a tour bus for Pavement is that you can easily kill Pavement if you [...]
Richard Wilson – Turning the Place Over, 2007, installation view, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, United Kingdom, photo: Turning the Place Over by Richard Wilson (CC BY 2.0) [...]
Roman Ondák – Measuring the Universe, 2007, performance, felt-tip pen, museum guards, museum audience, photo: Ernst Jank, courtesy: The Artist, gb agency, Paris, Martin Janda, Vienna and Johnen, [...]
Carve – Marmara Forum Cloud Playground, 2020, constructed using 275 double curved stainless steel panels, area of ca. 400 m²
Introduction
The roof park of Marmara Forum is perhaps one of the [...]
Ian Strange isn't your traditional street artist, hell, he isn't your traditional installation artist. Architectural interventionist? Spatial performance artist? On his website, he notes, "His [...]
“… painting Central Park is a challenge because there's so many paintings of it and everyone has their own personalized visual. But I thought if I just paint it in my own way, it's going to be [...]
Yes, here we are, Radio Juxtapoz turns 100. And what a way to turn 100 then to look back at the golden age of... well, suspended adulthood? For this 100th episode, we sit down with Laura June Kirsch [...]
In celebration of the Moral Fibres collaboration between the charitable organizations Migrate Art and Love Welcomes, Radio Juxtapoz took a moment to speak on how they each have found a place in both [...]
This isn't his first rodeo with us, but wow, it's always great to sit down with our friend Axel Void. He is both an elegant and renegade soul, a painter, muralist, a lynchpin in the Void Projects [...]
It was supposed to be a hailed and more open return to London art week and the Frieze Art Fair in Regent's Park. Sure, it was open last year, but 2022 saw a chance to revive the London art world [...]
For over a decade, the German artist HERA was one part of the successful street and fine art duo, HERAKUT. Their murals were seen across the world as part of a major generation of street artist who [...]
this post was sponsored by the Tokyo Convention & Visitors Bureau Just quick ride from Tokyo aboard a speedy Kagayaki 505 bullet train, Ishikawa Prefecture is a hidden gem among popular tourist [...]
”marui chikyu no moyogae” / 丸い地球の模様替え (2023) by Hikari Asano Artist Hikari Asano is currently a graduate student at Tokyo University of the Arts. Over the years, she’s [...]
unless otherwise noted all photos by Ben Richards courtesy Keiji Ashizawa Architects Hirakawaya is a tofu restaurant that has been serving a local specialty for over 60 years. Known as onsen tofu, [...]
Are you like us and finding yourself perpetually tired, in need of quick naps and rests several times a day? Well then you’re in luck because we have the perfect attire for you. Meet the [...]
In Japan, early spring is graduation season, which means it’s the time of year art students across Japan are proudly displaying their years of hard work in the form of senior thesis [...]
all images courtesy Genki Hirano Genki Hirano is a Japanese glass artist based in Iwate prefecture who creates delicate works that range from glass cups and vases to more whimsical designs like glass [...]
Today it has been announced that pioneering Spanish-born designer Paco Rabanne has passed away, aged 88. The news was confirmed by the official Paco Rabanne Instagram, as well as the brand’s parent [...]
On the first day of 2023, the copyright of Alan Crosland’s venerated yet troubling classic, The Jazz Singer, finally expired. A little over 95 years have passed since its pioneering introduction of [...]
In 2013, a Senegalese woman travelled 150 miles from Paris to a seaside town in the Pas-de-Calais department of France, breastfed her baby on the beach, and left her to drown as the tide came in. [...]
Celebrating an impressive 20-year anniversary this spring is the UK’s largest festival of Japanese cinema – with the latest edition of the Japan Foundation’s Touring Film Programme (JFTFP) [...]
Women’s bodies are deeply politicised, whether they are used for porn, procreation, or domestic service. Radical feminist artists Hannah Wilke (b. 1940, d. 1993) and Linder (b. 1954) have both [...]
“How do you know you are loved? How do you know someone cares for you?” asks writer and academic Alva Gotby in the opening lines of her new book, They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional [...]
“A return to formality,” reads the concise show notes for Alexander McQueen’s Autumn/Winter 2023 Men’s collection, with a matter-of-factness emblematic of the British label’s uber-refined [...]
Called to testify in a 1981 lawsuit brought by a San Diego transit workers union against Aztec Bus Lines, photographer Fred Lonidier found himself explaining the finances of his art [...]
A review of 96 artifacts from the Kingdom of Benin in Swiss museums found proof or strong evidence that more than half of the items were stolen by British soldiers in the 19th [...]
A high court in South Korea ordered the return of a Buddhist statue that was stolen from a temple in Japan in 2012.
The statue, which is more than 450 years old, depicts the [...]
A life-sized statue of a Roman emperor depicted as the Greek hero Hercules was discovered near the Appian Way, ancient Rome’s first highway. The statue was recovered on January 25 [...]
This week, a French appeals court upheld the charges against Jean-Luc Martinez, the former president and director of the Louvre in Paris, for his alleged complicity in [...]
It may have been only a couple days since word leaked out that a long-awaited Anish Kapoor sculpture in New York was finally complete, but already, crowds have begun to form on a [...]
New York art school Cooper Union has postponed the exhibition “Vkhutemas: Laboratory of the Avant-Garde,” originally scheduled to open on January 25. The Moscow art and [...]
A painted wood stripe runs along the perimeter of the interior walls of the deconsecrated ninth-century church of Sant’Andrea De Scaphis. Like the river Tiber lying a stone’s [...]
According to legend, the capital of the Aztec Empire, Tenochtitlan—today known as Mexico City—was founded by the Mexica (the early Aztecs) when they left Aztlán, their [...]
GODLAND HAS TWO TITLE CARDS: one in Icelandic, the other in Danish. Hlynur Pálmason’s new film exists in the tension between these two languages, which are really [...]
Anish Kapoor’s massive stainless-steel sculpture known colloquially as the bean was unveiled in New York City’s TriBeCa neighborhood on January 31. The shiny curved colossus, [...]
One might be misled by the title of Jeni Spota C.’s most recent exhibition, “Works on Paper.” A more appropriate name might be “Works in Paper” or, even more [...]
Israeli police have reportedly arrested an American tourist for vandalizing a sculpture of Jesus Christ at the Church of the Flagellation in Jerusalem’s Old City. Images of the damaged statue [...]
Pedro Reyes has been celebrated for his large-scale, interactive sculptural projects that propose playful solutions to social problems. In his words, “Sculpture is about changing the shape of a [...]
The Inspiration Lab at University of the Arts (UArts) invites artists to apply to its artist-in-residence studio program, which provides 10 studios for selected and invited individuals. As a part of [...]
Anish Kapoor‘s “Cloud Gate” sculpture has become one of Chicago’s most famous attractions, and now, a “mini-Bean” — as the work is being affectionately called — has [...]
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is considering a proposal to reconstruct 5.2 miles of a roadway that intersects with Nine Mile Canyon in Utah, which is home to the highest concentration of [...]
As the Southwest’s drought intensifies, Native leaders like Stephen Lewis are steering sustainability efforts to revitalize the region’s lakes and rivers. Rachel Moore has the story for [...]
It’s been just over two years since a bloody war broke out in northern Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region. In early November of last year, a tenuous truce came into effect to see if the warring [...]
As part of our new A Portfolio series, we show you the works of Joseph Yaeger, who currently is showing at The Perimeter in London. We take a look today at recent works from the Montana-born, [...]
In Thinkspace Projects' Gallery III opening this weekend, they are excited to showcase Phenomenon, the debut west coast U.S. solo exhibition of from Japanese artist Noritoshi Mitsuuchi. Resembling [...]
In Diego Moreno's work there is a tense calm. A kind of mutism plagued by murmurs. Everything begins at home: a domestic scene, a birthday, a religious rite. The family space in which many of us have [...]
NANZUKA is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by American artist Matthew Palladino at NANZUKA UNDERGROUND. This marks the artist’s latest solo exhibition with NANZUKA following his [...]
When you first look at the new solo show of Amy Bennett's, Open Season, on view now at Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica, you don't have to be conscious of the fact that some works were started [...]
The Brixton-based artist revisits her past as she prepares for a future where she leaves her studio behind…
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Does a brief appearance by the world’s most famous painting unlock the meaning of Japanese filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda’s Pale Flower?
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From minerals to tektites, artists have a newfound fascination with everything stone, says Hettie Judah
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The groundbreaking artist talks Sophia Satchell-Baeza through a career that has helped shift the boundaries of feminist art
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Galleries haven’t always operated today’s “look, don’t touch” policy. Meridian Payseno grabs hold of the history of physical interaction with art.
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The shifting reds of the American artist’s works mirror the way that journalist Hannah Strong sees her own mental illness
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What is it about art and feet? Madeleine Pollard dips her toe into the world of foot fetishism…
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Alex Prager, Run (2022), via Lehmann Maupin This winter, Lehmann Maupin presents Part Two: Run, an exhibition of work by Los Angeles-based artist Alex Prager, that marks the debut of Prager’s [...]
David Salle, Tree of Life, This Time with Feeling (Installation View), via Thaddaeus Ropac Presenting a body of new works at the Thaddaeus Ropac exhibition space in Paris, artist David Salle [...]
Jonathan Baldock, Mother Flower (2022), via Stephen Friedman Centered on themes of nature and the cycle of life, artist Jonathan Baldock presents a deeply personal and resonant exhibition this month [...]
Joseph Beuys, 40 Years of Drawing (Installation View), via Art Observed This month in London, Thaddaeus Ropac has embarked on a particularly striking and powerful exhibition, bringing together [...]
Richard Long, Walking at the Speed of Spring (1998), via Lisson For his latest exhibition at Lisson Gallery, artist Richard Long presents a series of text works and photographs spanning his entire [...]
Nicole Wermers, Reclining Female #1 (2022), via Herald St On view this month in London, Herald St presents P4aM2aRF!, an exhibition by Nicole Wermers taking place in the gallery’s East London [...]
Duane Linklater, croatoan 1 (2023), via Bortolami This month at Bortolami’s 39 Walker location, the gallery presents its first exhibition of the year, Junkyard of Dreams, bringing together the [...]
I plan this post in October, the leaves are just starting their steady decent and I know I will be desperate for daffodils in February and so here are Mark O'Neill's wonderful vases of [...]
Occasionally I work as a gallery technician, which is a job I love. Over the last few days I have had the opportunity to work with colleagues and the artist Diana Forster, setting up her art [...]
“Giddy Up” (2022), oil on canvas, 14 × 16 inches. All images courtesy of Thinkspace Projects, shared with permission
Urbanites know the subway is a prime location to spot the city’s [...]
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Red Wood Motel sign, Route 6, Hastings, Nebraska
1988.
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Chieftain Motel sign, Route 30, Ogallala, Nebraska
1982.
1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide [...]
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Captain John Mullan Trail sign, Route 10, Saint Regis, Montana
1987.
1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide [...]
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Teepee Rest Stop, Sierra Blanca, Texas
1979.
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Cave woman, Dinosaur Gardens, Route 23, Ossineke, Michigan
1988.
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Heart's Desire Motel sign, Route 19A, Dunedin, Florida
1980.
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Little America sign, I-80, Little America, Wyoming
2004.
1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide [...]
