If Chaïm Soutine hangs up carcasses to dry, Ilana Savdie dissects them with surgical precision. Pairing the Jewish Belarusian and Colombian-American artists seems obvious: Soutine wrestled the turmoil of both World Wars onto canvas, and Savdie melts modern life's cacophony into oozing creatures of our own making. Coming face to face with their work, I felt a strange mix of alienation and recognition at once.It’s odd to stand in a New York City gallery amid these chimeras of two eras roiling with violence and uncertainty. The rebellious, frenetic hand of Soutine, who moved to Paris two years before World War I began and went into hiding during the Nazi occupation in 1940, charged his early paintings on...
Emma Cousin talks to Paul Carey-Kent about art, criticism, illness and a life spent looking.
For an exhibition with such a simple title, Costume Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is awfully confusing. It’s also fairly problematic, but let’s start with the confusing parts. The show pairs garments and art objects to accomplish the radical task of “reveal[ing] the inherent relationship between clothing and the body,” as the website concisely explains. The artworks are meant to demonstrate the clothed body’s presence across The Met’s collection, evidently establishing the Costume Institute as the museum’s beating heart.So clothing and the body are related, a fact to which The Met’s artworks attest. This ridiculously broad proclamation is organized into body typologies, starting with...
Anyone who has driven Interstate 25 between Denver and Colorado Springs knows that traffic can get… hairy. And it’s not just drivers whose safety is at risk, as animals like elk, bears, coyotes, and more also need to use the highway to access 39,000 acres of habitat. Cars and pronghorns just aren’t compatible. That’s why Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) set out to build a wildlife-only bridge, the largest of its kind currently in North America, which it completed in December 2025. Within the first nine months since its opening, wildlife-vehicle collisions were already down a whopping 91 percent. Before the crossing opened, dozens of animals were killed by vehicles every year, often up to...
A major Paris art institution will host a significant Los Angeles collection next year. “The Broad in Paris” (April 21–August 30, 2027), at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, will be the largest display of works from the Broad collection ever mounted outside its home city, with some 164 works making the transatlantic voyage. The show will happen while the Broad is closed for renovation; it will reopen in 2028 with 70 percent more gallery space. “The Broad in Paris” will feature a star-studded roster of international contemporary figures such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mark Bradford, Chris Burden, Sayre Gomez, Lauren Halsey, Keith Haring, William Kentridge, Barbara Kruger, Yayoi Kusama, Sherrie Levine, Roy...
Artworks by Pablo Picasso, René Magritte, Lucian Freud, and John Constable are coming together next year at the National Gallery in London, as part of an exhibition titled “Collected.” The works have been acquired through two programs: the Acceptance in Lieu and Cultural Gifts schemes, organized by the Arts Council England on behalf of the UK government. The first is an initiative that allows an inheritance tax bill to be replaced by transferring important or pre-eminent cultural, scientific, or historic allocations to the nation, while the Cultural Gifts scheme lets UK taxpayers swap objects of importance in return for a reduction in the donor’s corporation, income, or capital gains tax liability....
MassArt Graduate programs structure robust assistantship offerings each semester for its graduate student population. The assistantships are paid opportunities that build professional and academic experience while supporting teaching, research, studios, galleries, and administration. Intended to be more than jobs, they provide mentorship and wider connection to the college, outside of a student’s specific grad program. Current student, Lucy Bennett (MFA Studio Arts ‘27), describes their assistantships as “such an important extension of my MFA experience. Through my teaching assistantships, I’ve been able to work alongside faculty and undergraduate students and see how different artists approach...
Leslie Roberts’s lawyer says the disgraced gallerist has been key to helping authorities uncover other art-fraud cases
An excerpt from Louis Shadwick’s new Edward Hopper biography, published in the Art Newspaper Tuesday, reveals that all six of the artist’s early oil paintings are in fact copies of other artists’ works, rather than Hopper’s own original compositions. Hopper made the paintings in a studio in his family’s home in Nyack, New York, when he was a teenager, before attending art school in New York City. The works were discovered in the attic of Hopper’s childhood home in the late 1960s, after the artist’s death, by the Reverend Arthayer R. Sanborn. Sanborn, a Baptist minister, lived down the street from Hopper’s family and had cared for Hopper’s sister and wife. He somewhat controversially acquired...
The re-emergence of a Jean-Michel Basquiat masterpiece is a miracle the art market occasionally performs. Christie’s announced Tuesday that one will appear at its 21st Century Evening Sale this fall. Untitled (Leonardo and His Five Grotesque Heads) will make its first public appearance in more than two decades when it leads Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale in New York on November 19, having surfaced from a “distinguished” private European collection. The estimate is “in the region of” $30 million, according to the announcement. Measuring 84 inches by 84 inches, the bright orange canvas responds to Leonardo da Vinci’s grotesque heads, a series of ink sketches made between the late 15th and...
More than 30 galleries based in Düsseldorf, Germany, signed an open letter last week that called out the far-right Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD) party for its attempts to “instrumentalize Düsseldorf’s art and cultural history to serve a political narrative that promotes social exclusion.” Published on October 15 and initiated by Daniela Horn, the founder of Van Horn gallery, the letter centers around an event that was initially set to be staged at the city’s Heinrich Heine Institute on October 26. That event, titled “Culture Policy from the Right!,” will no longer happen at its intended venue, however, because of what Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung called “organizational reasons,” citing...
Köln's current Rigoletto, the debonair Korean baritone Insik Choi, is this week's Grand Tier Grab Bag featured artist.
A husband-wife duo add star power to San Francisco Opera's stylish revival of Manon.
Our reporters on the ground in Paris give their “around town” art highlights
A recent spate of closures has led to calls for legislation—but education is important, too
George Shaw talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to film-makers, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE STOP JUST WATCHING?
When Sofia Lekka Angelopoulou opened SPECTATOR AND SPECTACLE, she posed a question that challenged our relationship with the world around us: ‘What if we are not overwhelmed by spectacle, but starved of it?’ In her opening editorial, The Haçienda Must Be Built, she traced the history of the night, from radical discotheques to the increasingly measured and optimized rhythms of contemporary life, asking what happens when experiences become predictable and images lose their capacity to surprise us. Over the weeks that followed, the chapter explored how architecture, art, fashion, and design might recover that sense of wonder. Again and again, spectacle emerged not...
When Sofia Lekka Angelopoulou opened SPECTATOR AND SPECTACLE, she posed a question that challenged our relationship with the world around us: ‘What if we are not overwhelmed by spectacle, but starved of it?’ In her opening editorial, The Haçienda Must Be Built, she traced the history of the night, from radical discotheques to the increasingly measured and optimized rhythms of contemporary life, asking what happens when experiences become predictable and images lose their capacity to surprise us. Over the weeks that followed, the chapter explored how architecture, art, fashion, and design might recover that sense of wonder. Again and again, spectacle emerged not...
Boss Design’s The Loop revives discarded furniture
When planning a space, Boss Design knows that an interior design studio considers more than its architectural characteristics. The furniture used to populate that room is as much a part of the design as the walls surrounding it.
Yet we often encounter the dilemma of interior designs that systematically discard existing pieces to create a space better suited to current needs. Whether due to natural wear from use or changes in furniture trends or personal tastes, hundreds of recoverable pieces are discarded every year in favor of new furniture. This behavior generates a carbon footprint that is both significant and avoidable.
renewing the...
When planning a space, Boss Design knows that an interior design studio considers more than its architectural characteristics. The furniture used to populate that room is as much a part of the design as the walls surrounding it.
Yet we often encounter the dilemma of interior designs that systematically discard existing pieces to create a space better suited to current needs. Whether due to natural wear from use or changes in furniture trends or personal tastes, hundreds of recoverable pieces are discarded every year in favor of new furniture. This behavior generates a carbon footprint that is both significant and avoidable.
renewing the...
From the moment she started to sing until the end, all of us sat in complete silence letting this voice engulf us.
It’s not just a problem. It’s a travesty. AI in art writing, I mean — and if those words made you instinctively cringe, then you get it, because that “It’s not X, it’s Y” sentence construction is just one of the many hallmarks of artificially generated writing. Speaking as an editor, come on. We can tell. And we will judge, and let you know exactly how we feel about it. We might even write a diatribe against it, as Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia does today in a piece that is incisive, understanding, and original — a chatbot could never. An opinion piece is one way to rail against the corporate-technological surveillance complex. Bedazzling security cameras is another, perhaps less...
IRVING PENN’S FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY AT THE MEP
The Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) in Paris presents PENN & FASHION, a retrospective of American photographer Irving Penn, tracing six decades of his work for Vogue from September 30th, 2026, to January 17th, 2027. Bringing together photographs from the MEP, the Nicola Erni Collection, and The Irving Penn Foundation, the exhibition examines how Penn moved beyond the demands of fashion publishing to develop a distinct photographic language, in which he reduced his compositions to their essentials, allowing garments and the people wearing them to become the focus.
Penn’s approach took shape at a moment when fashion photography was helping shape...
The Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) in Paris presents PENN & FASHION, a retrospective of American photographer Irving Penn, tracing six decades of his work for Vogue from September 30th, 2026, to January 17th, 2027. Bringing together photographs from the MEP, the Nicola Erni Collection, and The Irving Penn Foundation, the exhibition examines how Penn moved beyond the demands of fashion publishing to develop a distinct photographic language, in which he reduced his compositions to their essentials, allowing garments and the people wearing them to become the focus.
Penn’s approach took shape at a moment when fashion photography was helping shape...
red-and-white safety barriers reimagined as public seating
A signature element of Dutch urban infrastructure, the red-and-white aluminum traffic barrier (schrikhek), serves as the primary design reference for ‘stop!’, a new collection of outdoor benches and stools by Studio Martins Mezulis and 13_0663_tsx. Typically deployed across the Netherlands to signal construction zones and redirect public traffic, these standardized aluminum structures have been reconfigured to serve a social rather than restrictive function in public spaces.
all images ©Studio Martins Mezulis and 13_0663_tsx
recontextualizing utilitarian infrastructure into furniture
The ‘stop!’ collection by Studio Martins Mezulis...
A signature element of Dutch urban infrastructure, the red-and-white aluminum traffic barrier (schrikhek), serves as the primary design reference for ‘stop!’, a new collection of outdoor benches and stools by Studio Martins Mezulis and 13_0663_tsx. Typically deployed across the Netherlands to signal construction zones and redirect public traffic, these standardized aluminum structures have been reconfigured to serve a social rather than restrictive function in public spaces.
all images ©Studio Martins Mezulis and 13_0663_tsx
recontextualizing utilitarian infrastructure into furniture
The ‘stop!’ collection by Studio Martins Mezulis...
Un po’ come accade nei viaggi che durano da diverso tempo, il valore dell’esperienza non coincide soltanto con l’arrivo, ma con tutto ciò che durante il tragitto si riesce ad apprezzare. Riattraversare questi passaggi lascia emergere una limpida e vivida costellazione di quanto con diversa intensità e chiarezza abbiamo introiettato. La pittrice Bascha Mon (1932, Newark, New Jersey, New York) percorre questa strada da diversi anni, guidata dalla volontà di dare forma a qualcosa che resta come traccia tangibile della propria esperienza.
Bascha Mon nel suo studio, 1977, courtesy dell’artista e Tappeto Volante, New York
Testimonianza significativa di questo percorso è l’ambientazione del proprio...
Bascha Mon nel suo studio, 1977, courtesy dell’artista e Tappeto Volante, New York
Testimonianza significativa di questo percorso è l’ambientazione del proprio...
porsche 550 spyder at 80 percent of its original size
There’s a tiny silver Porsche parked among a sunlit meadow in the English countryside. With its rounded rear fenders and tiny windshield, it’s quite similar to the 550 Spyder that Porsche raced in the 1950s. The proportions are familiar, but something is slightly off. This is the Porsche 550 J, a miniature, fully electric version of the historic race car, recreated by British manufacturer Hedley Studios at roughly 80 percent of its original size.
Developed in collaboration with Porsche to celebrate 75 years of the company’s motorsport history, the 550 J is an officially licensed, handcrafted vehicle limited to 250 examples. The ‘J’ stands...
There’s a tiny silver Porsche parked among a sunlit meadow in the English countryside. With its rounded rear fenders and tiny windshield, it’s quite similar to the 550 Spyder that Porsche raced in the 1950s. The proportions are familiar, but something is slightly off. This is the Porsche 550 J, a miniature, fully electric version of the historic race car, recreated by British manufacturer Hedley Studios at roughly 80 percent of its original size.
Developed in collaboration with Porsche to celebrate 75 years of the company’s motorsport history, the 550 J is an officially licensed, handcrafted vehicle limited to 250 examples. The ‘J’ stands...
Nested in a natural lava cave in Mexico City’s Pedregal de San Ángel region, a sprawling, mosaic-laden domicile was once home to Juan and Helen Fowler O’Gorman, an architect and artist, respectively. The pair designed the icon of modernist Mexican architecture, called Casa Cueva, in 1954, although it was largely destroyed after the couple sold the home in 1969. At Museo Jumex, Álvaro Urbano presents an homage to the innovations of Casa Cueva, drawing on its gardens and the legacy that Helen left behind, particularly through her 1961 book titled Mexican Flowering Trees and Plants. Written and illustrated while she lived at Casa Cueva, the rich volume documented a variety of the region’s native...
I generally spend a decent amount of time in Gowanus, but weaving through the neighborhood’s streets and buildings for Open Studios on Saturday really demonstrated how the stretch of water has shed its sardonic designation of “Lavender Lake” and turned into a bizarro landscape of glimmering apartment buildings. The canalside Whole Foods is one thing, but the “luxury” high-rises boasting an “iconic” view of the waterfront in its funky fluorescence are still a head-scratcher for me. Now, I’m neither a chemist, an architect, nor a physician, but I’m willing to bet that everyone probably would have benefitted from waiting for water remediation and sewage overflow prevention efforts to be...
Liverpool’s Bluecoat has named Emer Grant as its new creative director. Grant is the first person named to the position at the museum since its founding in 1927. She joins the contemporary art center—England’s oldest—from Arts Collective Northampton, where she is artistic director and CEO. She will take up her post at Bluecoat in early […]
The Biennale de Lyon has announced Hélia Paukner as its new artistic director, effective February 1, 2027. Pauker will also take over the directorship of the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon (macLYON), her appointment maintaining the long-standing partnership between the Biennale and the museum. She succeeds Isabelle Bertolotti, who has occupied both roles since 2019. […]
President Abelardo de la Espriella ordered that dozens of objects related to LGBTQ+ rights and feminism be taken down from displays at the Museo Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá
For the last decade, our good friend and collaborator Jeroen Smeets of The Jaunt, has facilitated journeys for artists to some of the most far-flung places on Earth as part of week-long residencies in destinations of their choosing. Building on the limitless inspiration of travel and seeking to grow The Jaunt community, Smeets first hosted a Winter Camp in 2024 that invited four artists to spend time together in close quarters, hemmed in by winter weather and providing a welcome respite for the cross pollination of ideas, art, food, stories, and adventures. For the third iteration of Winter Camp, Joy Machine and The Jaunt teamed up to bring four artists from balmy California, to the frigid tundra of the...
Master’s students at the Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE) staged protests during the school’s graduation exhibition to demand action against overcrowded facilities. Demonstrators gathered at the entrance to the design school show during its opening on Saturday. In an open letter to the board of DAE, posted on October 9, students claim that they have been […]
Anselm Kiefer’s Schwarze Flocken, 2007, which is over 36 feet high and 23 feet wide, considered too large to exhibit for nearly two decades, has finally found a home. Last week, it was shown to the public for the first time in a freestanding concrete pavilion built specifically to house the work in Germany. Schwarze […]
A new biography of Edward Hopper by Louis Shadwick reveals that all six of the painter’s early oil compositions, made before he enrolled in art school, are copies of the work of other artists. Shadwick found that the original works appeared as color plates in Art Interchange, a widely read periodical for amateur artists that […]
Claes Oldenburg’s (1929-2022) most famous piece of writing is his statement titled “I Am For…” which graced an exhibition catalogue in 1961 and starts: I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum. / I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all, an art given the chance of having a starting point of zero. / I am for an art that embroils itself with the everyday crap and still comes out on top. / I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary. / I am for all art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and...
Hélia Paukner will lead both the Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale and macLYON.
The Broad brings 164 works from Los Angeles to Paris for a major 2027 exhibition.
Daniel Dorsa
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Melanie Spector pays tribute to the great soprano — and her mentor — Martina Arroyo.
Vera Molnar’s algorithms, interruptions and imaginary machines come to the V&A.
Florence Quivar’s blend of triple cream voice and superior musical expression earned her a discography and videography to rival those of any of her contemporaries.
Goran Tomcic brings reflective sculpture and performance to MOCA London.
Qual è la sostanza del nostro tempo? Di cosa sono fatti i nostri giorni? Se si va a Lodi a visitare le 13 sedi della 17.ma edizione del Festival della Fotografia Etica, ognuno di noi sarà in grado di comporre a proprio vantaggio il complicato, sempre più inquietante, sempre più frammentato quadro della nostra epoca: un’epoca in cui questioni ataviche irrisolte vengono definitivamente a galla, tensioni che sono rimaste sempre accese esplodono, squilibri tra le differenti aree del pianeta si ingigantiscono. Organizzato dal Gruppo Fotografico Progetto Immagine e diretto da Alberto Prina, il Festival coniuga reportage fotografici che ci ricordano costantemente cosa succede a livello di società nel mondo e...
In surreal tableaux, mythological creatures interact with flora and fauna within dream-like realms. Insects, stars, metaphysical tendrils, and all-seeing eyes accompany human bodies with the heads of raptors. Rithika Merchant’s strange yet alluring symmetry contains what may be esoteric rituals or communions with the natural world. Each speculative, fable-like narrative taps into our collective anxiety about the environment and hope for healing. Merchant’s vibrant new body of work centers on hybrid creatures and a sense of the sacred, comprising the Mumbai-based artist’s solo exhibition The Dreaming Realm at Galerie LJ. She harnesses elemental phenomena like the earth, plants, fire, water, and the stars...
Molto spesso mi ritrovo a osservare come la luce incontra l’intonaco delle pareti delle chiese, come quel fascio di luce illumini quella piccola porzione di muro o come i mosaici nelle stesse brillino anche al buio, generando intorno a loro dei timidi luccichii. Di mani in quelle immagini se ne vedono molte: reggono doni, indicano visi impressi nella storia, seguono il tragitto delle stelle.
Evgeniya Pankratova, “Specie di spazi”, installation view at Mimmo Scognamiglio artecontemporanea, Milano, ph. Sarah Indriolo, courtesy the gallery and the artist
Nonostante non sostengano secoli di storia, le pareti della galleria Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea riescono a riproporre proprio quel groviglio di...
Evgeniya Pankratova, “Specie di spazi”, installation view at Mimmo Scognamiglio artecontemporanea, Milano, ph. Sarah Indriolo, courtesy the gallery and the artist
Nonostante non sostengano secoli di storia, le pareti della galleria Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea riescono a riproporre proprio quel groviglio di...
Torino è una città molto vivace: ha gallerie di tendenza (come Franco Noero), vanta gallerie storiche (come Giorgio Persano), ha musei di tutto rispetto (come il GAM), vanta la sede della Fondazione Merz, accoglie la sede storica della Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo e ha una fiera di tendenza come Artissima.
Vista d’insieme degli spazi espositivi di The Others Art Fair 2025. Foto di Carolina Lemmi, courtesy The Others
A queste realtà, poco flessibili e molto impositive, si affiancano, in parallelo, molteplici iniziative che aumentano l’offerta e le opportunità di proporre delle opere al di fuori di una linea puramente egemonica. The Others Art Fair è una di queste realtà: un progetto...
Vista d’insieme degli spazi espositivi di The Others Art Fair 2025. Foto di Carolina Lemmi, courtesy The Others
A queste realtà, poco flessibili e molto impositive, si affiancano, in parallelo, molteplici iniziative che aumentano l’offerta e le opportunità di proporre delle opere al di fuori di una linea puramente egemonica. The Others Art Fair è una di queste realtà: un progetto...
Il calore di Charmaine Poh (Singapore, 1990) rispecchia il suo sentire e la sua propensione alla collettività. Espone, dopo la Biennale 2024, la sua prima mostra personale in Italia e porta il suo progetto per il premio “Artista dell’Anno” della Deutsche Bank 2025 inaugurato durante la Berlin Art Week lo scorso anno. Il MUDEC – Museo delle Culture apre la stagione artistica con il progetto di Charmaine Poh (a cura di Britta Färber e in collaborazione con 24 Ore Cultura), Make a travel deep of your inside, and don’t forget me to take, che si consolida nella scena istituzionale italiana. L’esposizione è un display della sua pratica multimediale che si divide tra video, installazioni e performance...
Patricia Reyes
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Shuto Okayasu
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Yue Zhang
I’m an illustrator/ graphic designer currently based in Beijing. Through illustration, I make connections to everyday life, seeking out beauty in the midst of chaos. My work gives visual form to inner feelings and experiences. I see each creative process as an adventure, specializing in the translation of text into vibrant visual narratives.
This zine《Let’s go to the park》 is an experimental work on visual language, creating narrative solely through visual imagery. It came from some moments when I was just zoning out in the park: from the amusing interactions between a dog and its owner, the swirling ripples in the fountain, the sudden downpour of rain… I blended these unrelated moments...
I’m an illustrator/ graphic designer currently based in Beijing. Through illustration, I make connections to everyday life, seeking out beauty in the midst of chaos. My work gives visual form to inner feelings and experiences. I see each creative process as an adventure, specializing in the translation of text into vibrant visual narratives.
This zine《Let’s go to the park》 is an experimental work on visual language, creating narrative solely through visual imagery. It came from some moments when I was just zoning out in the park: from the amusing interactions between a dog and its owner, the swirling ripples in the fountain, the sudden downpour of rain… I blended these unrelated moments...
By Kristine Schomaker I keep thinking about Nomadland. Fern driving her van across that enormous American landscape. Not running from something. Moving toward something she could not quite name yet. That feeling of needing less. Of being, as Dominique Moody says, at home in the world. NOMAD: Dominique Moody and the Assemblage of Home is on view at the Armory Arts Center in Pasadena through January 16, 2027, part of the year-long city celebration for the centennials of Route 66 and the...
When we say ‘think of the colour yellow’, what comes up for you? Our latest photobook, THE COLOUR LIBRARY: YELLOW, is bursting with inspiration, from delicate blossoms and ripe lemons to eye-catching clothing and sunny décor.
Across 100 photos, our photographers celebrate all things yellow: some chanced upon in the street or in nature, others meticulously planned. Of course, there are loads of different hues that count as yellow, from acidic brights to mustard, egg yolk, and canary. You’ll find them all in the book!
The cover image, by Jo Martindale, submerges us in a ball pit of yellow plastic balls: it’s immersive, fun, and hard to look away. The yellow we find around us definitely has multiple...
By Jody Zellen Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery September 3–November 22, 2026 Susan Silton has never been an artist attached to a single medium. Her practice, which spans more than forty years, interweaves photography, design, performance, sculpture, video, audio, and installation. Working as a graphic designer in the 1970s and ’80s shaped her visual acuity and formal sensibilities. Her production is conceptually strong and visually coherent and very little is left to chance. It is a delight...
By Kristine Schomaker Friday night I stood at the AIDS Monument in West Hollywood and watched artists perform five-minute pieces in the open air as the sun went down. ACTION = LIFE, presented by LACE and the Performance Art Museum as part of Circa: Queer Histories Festival. A marathon of performances. So many friends. So much history in one place. I drove home still feeling it. Thinking about the first performance I ever saw that made me understand what my own work was actually about....
By Kristine Schomaker I learned yesterday that my friend Scott Froschauer died suddenly. I've known him for almost ten years, and I'm still trying to find a place to put this. Scott was a Shoebox artist, one of the early ones. We worked together on several projects, but the one I keep coming back to is an art salon we put together on consent, negotiation, and the male gaze, how the male posture of viewing women frames any sign of femininity as an invitation, and what it would mean to actually...
