Roberta Smith, KAWS, and Other Panelists Conclude That Size Does Matter in...
Tuesday night, many students in the Fashion Institute of Technology’s (FIT) art market program and a few cynical members of the art press gathered in the school’s amphitheater for “Size Matters,” a...
View Article“I’m Clearly Not a Singer”: Susan Philipsz on Her Haunting Public Sound...
At last night’s Public Art Fund talk at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium, 2010 Turner Prize-winning Scottish sound artist Susan Philipsz presented more than a decade of her subtle and melancholy...
View ArticleSVA Taps Birmbaum, Curiger, Hoffmann, and More for “Curating the Curatorial”...
On November 2 the MA Curatorial Practice Department at New York’s School of Visual Arts will hold a free, open-to-the-public summit investigating trends and developments in curatorial practice at its...
View ArticleTONIGHT IN NYC: Mapping the “Cultural Battlefield” at Artists Space
What: “The Cultural Field as Battlefield: Art and Ideology in the UK and Cuba“ Where: Artists Space, 55 Walker Street, NYC When: 7:00 pm Curator Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt has traveled the world in search...
View ArticleFunny Dada: Notes From Hrag Vartanian’s Talk on Humor in Art Criticism
“How can I write something funny without putting someone down?” Hyperallergic co-founder and editor-in-chief Hrag Vartanian asked last night to the audience at the New York Studio School. “That’s a...
View ArticleJeff Koons and John Waters Will Chat in February for the Broad’s Series of...
On Friday Los Angeles’s The Broad announced an unlikely pairing for an upcoming talk in its “The Un-Private Collection” series. On February 24, 2014, gazing ball mastermind Jeff Koons will sit down...
View ArticleArt Basel in Miami Beach Reveals Conversations Program With Aitken, Emin,...
These days an art fair isn’t complete without a set of intellectually titled talks with leading artists, curators, editors, and other art world insiders. At Art Basel in Miami Beach these events are...
View ArticleRyan McNamara Reveals Behind-the-Scenes Details from His Performa Hit “ME3M...
Although the 5-day run of Ryan McNamara’s well-received Performa 13 commission “MEƎM: A Story Ballet About the Internet,” ended on Tuesday, there is already talk of re-staging the show. At a lecture...
View ArticleBenglis, Mehretu, and More Talk Abstraction at Christie’s
On Monday night the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) held a panel discussion at Christie’s in honor of the 90th birthday of one of its most famous participants, Ellsworth Kelly....
View ArticleJeffrey Deitch and His GPS: More Than Just Friends?
“I’m ready to download Samantha, are you?” Jeffrey Deitch asked the audience Thursday night after a Miami sneak preview of Spike Jonze’s “Her,” the story of a man who falls in love with his handheld...
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