I am 25 and I own the biggest art gallery in the world. I exhibit freely in the streets of the world, catching the attention of people who are not museum visitors. My work mixes art and acting, talks about commitment, beauty, freedom, identity and limits. After I found, by chance, a camera in the […]

The pivotal exhibition, “Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art” at the Brooklyn Museum, is a major show that powerfully extends the notion of transnational feminisms today, showcasing more than 80 international women artists. In its catalogue, preeminent art historian Linda Nochlin provides a masterfully direct, state-of-the-art statement, in which she looks at the past […]

I have been shooting since I was a teenager. I got my first 35 mm camera when I was 13 years old and still use the same format to this day. I like to shoot in black and white, with 35 mm film and usually with low lighting. This gives me the kind of picture […]

Dan Graham has said before that most great art is about humor. In curating “Deep Comedy” with independent curator Sylvia Chivaratanond, Graham has brought to Ballroom Marfa works by more than ten artists variously motivated by the comedic impulses of non sequitur, slapstick, satire and sitcom. Their punch lines aren’t as hard-hitting as the obvious […]

Back in the 70s, the heyday of the feminist movement in New York, one might choose to accept that dictum articulated by critic Lucy Lippard—that all art is political, whether intentionally so or not. Today, when you walk into the Brooklyn Museum’s new Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, what you see on the […]

Seductive, repulsive and vividly fresh, Christy Singleton’s silicone sculptures of plastic, surgery-obsessed southern women personify “Silicone Valley,” a provocative exhibition at New York’s P. S. 1 Gallery. Silicone, as the title of the show suggests, is a synthetic material commonly used for plastic surgery, but it also refers to the geographical area of Silicon Valley […]

Mr. Young’s retrospective and first solo exhibition opens at P. S. 1 on June 24th and stays open through September 10, 2007. The exhibit will feature 25 works and survey two decades of the artist’s career from 1963 to 1980. Mr. Young first came to New York in 1960 to study art history at N.Y.U. […]

Shanghai-based artist Liu Deng loves clutter. He collects chess pieces and animal masks. Table lamps and rubber ducks. Action figures. Scarves. Things scavenged from the street. Things bought in a bazaar. Even objects from friends’ homes—which he’ll ask to borrow, of course. Only when he has amassed a respectable heap, will he sit down and […]

All my photo projects start the same—with a gradually developing obsession with something that crosses my path, whether it’s a book, a story, a documentary or an object seen in a museum. Gathering source material often leads me to make an extensive study of the related subjects. I try to categorize my sources, to sound […]

My work addresses issues of masculinity, amateurism, science, play and the quixotic quest for personal heroism that accompanies these subjects. I explore the culturally glorified narratives of scientific discoveries, feats of athleticism and heroic legends through the perspective of the amateur, who is motivated by love for the activity and a desire to achieve, but […]