North by Southwest
Why show the land? The question came to me as I exited “The Idea of North,” the Hammer Museum’s exhibition…
Magazine Articles
The Gesture that Makes
the Mark
Contributive Farming The Old Field Farm rises on the northern slopes of the Catskills, in Greene County, New York, approximately…
Rudolf Stingel
Over the course of more than two decades Rudolf Stingel has brought to the fore an approach to painting that…
Bridget Riley: Paintings and Related Work
It was then that she summoned the spirits. In 1965 the English-born Bridget Riley broke from the traditions of painting,…
Doris Salcedo: Plegaria Muda
The entire oeuvre of Columbian artist Doris Salcedo is informed by a strong political commitment that relentlessly confronts us with…
Let’s Dance
On several occasions, Christodoulos Panayiotou organized a kind of marathon that had little to do with the Greek original but…
Alexander Heim
The Great Plastic Vortex (2011), a work Alexander Heim presented at Art Basel’s “Art Statements” last June, refers to a…
Ian Hamilton Finlay
For Ian Hamilton Finlay, not only is our contemporary world a secular, materialist and fallen one from which ideal meaning…
Simon Fujiwara
Martin Clark: Your work is very autobiographical. Can you talk about why you use your personal history so prominently in…
Glenn Ligon
and Adam Pendleton
A conversation Adam Pendleton: What are you reading these days Glenn? Glenn Ligon: I started reading fiction again after a long…
Robert Barry
Peter Eleey: When you talk about your work you put a lot of emphasis on the variability of the context…
Jules de Balincourt
During the summer of 1888 artist Paul Sérusier sojourned in Pont-Aven in Brittany, France, following the advice of artist Paul…
Terence Koh
For years now we have been witnessing a reformulation of social and political postulates that were created during the ’60s…
Gelatin Vibrations
Bice Curiger’s “Illuminations” describes contemporary art as a recursive modernism that wraps pre- and post- together in one curatorial swoop.…
Marisa Merz
Very few exhibitions adequately follow Mies van der Rohe’s famous motto: “less is more.” But that statement perfectly describes Marisa…
Signature and Style
Anyone who has experienced a high school– or undergrad–level art program may look back at their painting or sculpture course and…