Issue No. 28 – Control
What is the nature of control? The desire for it—and to be free of it—are essential parts of both life and art.
From the release of imprisoned journalists in Myanmar to the sentencing of scammer Anna Delvey, this is all you need to know about the ins and outs of the art world from this week.
Ahmed: Francis Bacon intended to make these faces deformed for a reason, but the machine doesn’t comprehend the same intentions Bacon had.
Can you remember what was said at dinner? Most of us may say no. This is because we are obsessed with our phones and posting every facet of our life on social media, especially food at our fancy restaurants. Alcohol could also be a cause but we’re going to blame it on the phones.
From MoMa’s investments in prisons to another round of censorship on Instagram, this is all you need to know with the ins and outs from the art world this week.
Laurel: The landscapes are images of cowboy movies, fantasy Western dreamlands. I wanted the landscapes to play into the over-the-top pin-up calendar, road-trip feeling.
Celebs who have digitally altered their press photos: the Kardashians, Beyoncé, Trump, and—interim Kazakhstani President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev? Since he entered office in March, his press office has released photos in which his face has been blatantly photoshopped
Thump, thump, thump; you can hear your heart pounding in your chest as you climb over the barricade. You wipe the sweat from your brow as you lower yourself down the face of the cliff. But then your fingers begin to slip, until…
From Extinction Rebellion’s “die-in” in Museum of Natural History to letting inmates look at nudes, here is all you need to know for all the ins and out from the art world this week.
George Lois is the indefinite and infallible risk-taker who built a career by jumping into the creative space of American media headfirst and came out swimming in a crystal-clear reflection pool of mid-century Western culture.
This week is World Innovation and Creativity week; Innovation progresses the status quo while creativity speaks to the human essence. Together they give free rein to the unlimited imaginative potential, without forcing the spark of progress to be brought back to the hard pavement of reality.
Be thankful your coffee spilled: it was your body’s way of telling you the extra caffeine wasn’t needed. Be thankful you missed that deadline, you needed the extra time. Be thankful you have no savings: you were thinking of dieting anyways, right?
Genevieve Gaignard: Most white Americans think that we’ve come so far from our racist past. I’m making these works as a way to shine a light on the fact that things haven't changed as much as you’d like to think.
I just put my winter coat away, because yesterday I was sweating in a tank top. But this morning I had to pull it back out since today it’s almost freezing. Global warming is no longer just knocking on our door; it’s about to break it down.
From Week 5 of protests at the Whitney Museum to the winner of the Sony Photography Award, this is all you need to know about the ins and outs of the art world from this week.
Joan: When I first began to shift to performance from sculpture I continued my research in shamanism, magic, and ritual. In studying art history I explored how art begins in ritual and myth.
Instead of blaming Trump’s wall, freshman Republican Congressman, Tim Burchett, is trying to push “No Art in Embassies Act” because he thinks it’s a misallocation of taxpayers money. Why are we pretending that a rich Republican from Tennessee even pays taxes?
