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Saving Frida Kahlo From Her Own Celebrity
Enter the permanent collection galleries on the fifth floor of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and among the first pieces you’ll encounter is a pair of Frida Kahlo self-portraits, executed in her...
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Why Can’t We Take Pictures in Art Museums?
Museumgoers snapping photos of Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night, 1889, at MoMA. ©2013 REBECCA ROBERTSON It’s a scene that plays itself out hundreds of times a day in American museums: a mother and her...
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The New World of Net Art
Stephan Backes’s 1st Come, 1st Served (Limited Edition), 2012, a signed and numbered digital painting that collectors can download from the Light & Wire Gallery website. COURTESY THE ARTIST. Over...
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Lights, Camera, Vezzoli
When the last of three Francesco Vezzoli exhibitions lands in Los Angeles, it will not be seen in a museum. The Museum of Contemporary Art, which is organizing the show, will not spotlight the artist’s...
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Reshooting ‘Pulp Fiction’ as Art
When Agnieszka Kurant’s solo exhibition debuts at the SculptureCenter in Queens, New York, it will consist of a film of deleted characters, a library of nonexistent books, and a radio piece...
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How the Art of Social Practice Is Changing the World, One Row House at a Time
Last summer, Thomas Hirschhorn constructed the final edition in a series of “monuments” commemorating thinkers he admires. Like the Swiss artist’s other monuments, this one was crude—resembling a...
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What Would You Ask Your Favorite Contemporary Cartoonists?
Daniel Clowes, from The Death Ray. Click for larger image. ©DANIEL CLOWES WITH PERMISSION FROM DRAWN AND QUARTERLY. For nearly a decade, writer Hillary L. Chute has been interviewing some of North...
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Are U.S. Art Museums Finally Taking Latin American Art Seriously?
Mario Ybarra Jr. and Juan Capistran, “Stick ’em Up…” (Slanguage Bandito), 2003, digital print. ©JUAN CAPISTRAN AND MARIO YBARRA, JR. Radical Latin American women artists. Latinos and science fiction. A...
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What Does Latino Look Like?
When curator Taína Caragol began to organize the latest exhibition of contemporary portraiture at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., she says she wanted to “bust apart”...
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Ruben Ochoa’s Concrete Poetry
A visitor who stepped into the main gallery at LAXART in the fall of 2006 might have been forgiven for thinking that the prominent Los Angeles exhibition space had been struck by an earthquake. A...
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