One of the most elegant and thought-provoking exhibitions this year is Maya Lin’s Here and There. Lin became the center of controversy in 1981 when she won the competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Still a student, and virtually unknown, her design was chosen from over 1,400 submissions.  I remember seeing an exhibit of […]

Leah Oates: How did you become an artist and did you know early on that you would be in the arts or did you begin as something else?  Where there other artists in your family?   Conrad Bakker: As a child I was always curious about the world and interested in making useless things, but […]

Austrian graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister’s pitch book for The Happy Film fits in my palm—it is short and sweet, bright and charmingly … delightful. The book works to communicates Sagmeister’s desire to answer and visualize the following questions through film, “Is it possible to train your mind in the same way you train your body?” and, “Can […]

This world, and the world of art in particular, is so often filled with largely superfluous gestures that sometimes the best work attracts attention for displaying an economy of gesture. The best of this work can go so far as to display little or no gesture at all. Craig Dworkin’s latest book from MIT press […]

by Tony Zaza For movie fans who are partial to movies without closure, the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival provides many good movies without complete endings. You can use your imagination to project a conclusion. Perhaps life has become so subtle and arbitrary, endings are no longer relevant. What might matter more is what brings people […]

  Mark Sengbusch is a painter, curator, and Sudoku Master living in New York City. Jeffrey Scott Mathews is a painter, writer and musician based in Brooklyn. They met in Detroit, in 1997 at College for Creative Studies. They later studied at Cranbrook Academy of Art where they picked up on a dialogue that will carry […]

Jim Gaylord, Call on the Carpet, 2013, gouache on cutout paper, 36 x 50 inches courtesy of the artist and Jeff Bailey Gallery   CHRISTIAN MAYCHACK: I was thinking about the title of your last show with Gregory Lind, Skipping Over Damaged Area, and about that sort of technological breakdown that happens with the damaged […]

William Crump, Rise After Rise Bow the Phantoms Behind Me linen, brass, glass, gouache, flashe, wood frame, various dimensions, 2012 Leah Oates: How did you become an artist and did you know early on that you would be in the arts or did you begin as something else?  Where there other artists in your family? […]

After much duress and rhetoric, Fountain by Duchamp as lowly as it once appeared, has been chastened by Meister Eckhart, who proclaimed: “And behold! All in One.”  Not merely a gaff of raw Dadaist vulgarity, but a heightened amplification usurping the serene bypass taken by artists on the aftermath of Duchamp’s storm of acrimony. R. […]

Rex Bruce is the founder and director of the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. He took some time earlier this year to share some insight with NY Arts about the vitality of the L.A. art scene. I was introduced to computer technology from an early age: my father was a programmer in the late […]