Louise Nevelson on the cover of the May 1979 issue of ArtNews with an annotated note to her granddaughter (image courtesy the Louise Nevelson Foundation) There are more artists whose legacies are worth preserving than bandwidth for art professionals to undertake that preservation. Consequently, it often falls to the artist’s family to take up this…
María Magdalena Campos-Pons, “Replenishing” (2001), composition of seven Polaroid Polacolor Pro photographs, 88 1/2 x 66 inches (image courtesy the artist) Mother’s Day, traditionally celebrated on the second Sunday in May in the United States, can evoke a vast range of feelings, from pride to comfort to grief to apathy. On this day, some of us will celebrate,…
I think most people have a memory of the first time they encountered something that seemed grown up and cool. If you were a kid in the suburbs of Detroit in the ’90s it took some digging. Culture wasn’t readily available. But we were in Motown, so independent record stores were. My memory is coming…
The European Fine Art Fair, best known as TEFAF, is all about decadence. Its ninth New York edition, running through Tuesday, May 14, features 89 galleries showing everything from furniture, jewelry, and antiquities to contemporary art. It makes for a disorienting mix, hopping from sculptures by Kehinde Wiley at the booths of both Sean Kelly…
The Independent is 15. Hip, chic, and so boutique, the Manhattan art fair doesn’t want to grow up. It wants to stay lean and taut, focusing on mid-size galleries and new talent. It prefers jeans and leather jackets over three-piece suits, a vape over a Cuban cigar, cushy sofas and hanging chandeliers over sterile white…
This afternoon, May 9, 21 undergraduate students affiliated with the Rhode Island School of Design’s (RISD) Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter elected to vacate their “de-occupation” of a campus building before 2:30pm after RISD President Crystal Williams issued a threat of expulsion. The group had taken over the second floor of the Providence…
At least 100 demonstrators from student groups at New York City art schools gathered in Manhattan’s Cooper Square this afternoon, waving Palestinian flags and carrying banners calling for the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art’s (CU) divestment from individuals and corporate entities linked to Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza. Organized by CU’s…
Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang (1970), The Queen’s Vernacular: A Gay Lexicon, San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books (1972), and Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler with Ann Russo, A Feminist Dictionary (1985) (all images courtesy the Grolier Club unless otherwise noted) Samuel Johnson once joked in a letter that “dictionaries are like watches, the worst…
The work “Prayers to Nana Buruku altar” (2017) was flagged by Providence College administrators for containing imagery offensive to the Catholic faith. (photo by and courtesy Shey Rivera Ríos) A group exhibition at the Reilly Gallery at Providence College (PC) was abruptly canceled just two weeks before its opening because school officials deemed the work…
I first found out about the New York City-based artist collective Shanzhai Lyric a few years ago, after asking a passerby in Dimes Square about his “GHANEL COCO” shirt. He had purchased the $10 garment on Canal Street after attending a poetry reading at MoMA PS1, where the collective’s partners read a sample of prose…
