One of the oldest exhibition spaces for contemporary art in Moscow, L-gallery, presents the project of New York avangardist Barbara Rosenthal, " Existential Cartoons".  The theme of an individual’s reflection and self-identification within larger society has consumed artist Barbara Rosenthal for many years.  Her use of performance/installation for creative expression began in 1968, before that […]

Catherine Yu-Shan Hsieh on Morton Bartlett Wrapped in newspapers  from 1963, 15 plaster figures of boys and girls had been waiting quietly in Morton Bartlett’s house for nearly three decades. Art dealer Marion Harris discovered them, and black-and-white photographs of them, in 1993, a year after Bartlett’s death at 83. Critics have suspected Bartlett was […]

Jesse Burke, who received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2005, confronts the ways in which we establish modes of gender identification and how these seemingly direct processes can be blurred. Reaching beyond the socially constructed idea of gender, Burke is interested in sexual relativity and a regression towards sexual confusion. […]

Nicholas Weist on Christopher Ho + Troy Richards Christopher Ho and Troy Richards’ project &Leisure, which exists in object form as an artist book, is a series of proposals to contemporary artists that suggest vacation packages related to their work. The travel plans range from serious to snarky—everything from an all-American tour through Maine for […]

Julie Fishkin on Joe Fig We all know how self-obsessed the art world is. The very appellation “art world” implies a self-sufficient niche that operates with its own rules, players, and contingents in a closely circumscribed microcosm. Those who contribute to its system define its tacit codes and values, which are a valid source of […]

Steve Lafreniere: Who are the men in these drawings? Jeff Davis: They are more symbolic than anything, but even what I loosely identify them with will sometimes shift within a single drawing. I do think of them as archetypal, though, and as me. SL: The totem-pole clusters of trees, figures, and cartoon faces are like […]

Michael Hakimi is a Berlin-based artist and Simone Neuenschwander is a curator at Kunsthalle Basel. Hakimi’s exhibition Roof will be on view there until mid-November. Simone Neuenschwander: Many of your works have an abundance of abstract forms and ornaments that remind one of cultural, political, or daily signs. They appear in your pictures as well […]

Gerald Davis: So what is preoccupying you these days? Jared Buckhiester: I’ve just been making work and enjoying my summer. Finally signed up for Netflix and been working my way through old movies I’ve wanted to see. Also, I just started taking classical ballet at the Alvin Ailey School, which has been surprisingly satisfying. GD: […]

One can only marvel at the voracity with which the demons of the New York gallery/museum scene have scrupulously resurrected some of the lost souls of the 1960s after paying no attention to them for 45 years and allowing them to grow old and gray while children were given license to spread their excrement on […]

Spencer Finch is a New York–based artist and Susan Cross is a curator at Mass MoCA. Finch’s solo show What Time is it on the Sun?, which Cross curated, will be on view at Mass MoCA until March 31, 2008. Susan Cross: In one of the new pieces made for MASS MoCA, A Few Days […]