Mandy Morrison: What influenced your decision to create (performative) work that would interact in a public sphere? Nicolas Dumit Estevez: My interest is in stepping out of the safety of the art institution environment to insert my experiments into a less predictable context. I enjoy dealing with projects where I often choose not to be […]

Mandy Morrison: What influenced your decision to create (performative) work that would interact in a public sphere?Damali Ayo: I am always looking for the best media to communicate the concept I am working with. For "living flag" I was looking for a way to explore the idea of reparations. It was an issue that needed […]

For nine evenings, in October of 1966, collaborations between engineers and artists resulted in a series of performances that incorporated leading edge technical objects and systems. This series was initiated by Billy Klüver, a physicist at Bell Telephone Laboratories and artist Robert Rauschenberg. Courtesy of artist Technology, Poetry, Mystery and Pleasure – Anne Swarts For […]

One cannot absorb the beauty of a Santerineross piece at a glance, as captivating as that one glance may be. One doesn’t purchase a Santerineross to balance the décor of a room, though once hung, the piece may cause you to linger in that room more than any other. This art ensnares you through a […]

Emerging from a backwater where populist and elitist pop culture sometimes meet are five master-class collagists, united here under the banner, "Constellation." This mix-and-match quintet can only be defined by multiple esthetic characterizations: neo-dada accomplices, surrealist co-conspirators, Fluxus-happenings pranksters, assemblage-ist provocateurs. Grand Masters of Collage – Valery Oisteanu Pavel Zoubok Gallery Ray Johnson (1927-1995), Untitled […]

Writing in the Guardian newspaper in 2003, Jonathan Jones set the birthday of video art around 1974 in the multiple video images of President Richard Nixon as the first inklings of Watergate slowly came to the public’s attention. Focused, with merciless intensity, on the TV rhetorician, video revealed its talent for penetration peeling away Nixon’s […]

Upon first glance at the press release for Participant Inc’s "Ridykeulous," one knows what they are in for. The show, curated by A.L. Steiner and Nicole Eisenman, consists of works by 46 different artists, classified as misandrists. This clear, mocking classification, plainly stated at the top of the release is echoed throughout the entire show. […]

Three shows fill Blue Star Contemporary Arts Center forming this sort of contemporary Tex-Mex overview. In the main gallery hangs 14 of the 16 large acrylic paintings created by two artists. Half of this duo is one of this country’s leading Mexican-American artists and muralists, George Yepes. Selma Hayek, Sin City, Fire Bellies and Angels […]

I love art that when you see it, you can instantly tell it reflects who the artist is in some way. Like maybe it tells their story or maybe a part of them is in every piece. It’s basically what I do, because my life and experiences is the one thing I know everything about, […]

Experimentation, risk and avant-garde, none of these terms are ever very far from Charo Oquet’s mouth. Miami artist and curator Charo Oquet is well-known in Miami as the mother hen of the emerging artist and the voodoo princess of the Diasporic installation. Oquet is the founder of Edge Zones, an artist initiative in Miami dedicated […]