AI Interview
Laurent Lebon, founding director of the Pompidou Center’s new satellite in Metz in the Lorraine region of eastern France, has just had his contract renewed for another three years. The 43-year-old alumnus of Paris’s Institut d’Etudes Politiques and the Ecole...
Through the spy holes cut into the blacked out windows of the New Museum’s Studio 231 storefront gallery, it’s currently possible to catch a glimpse of a nightmare flock. A gaggle of surreal birds — long-beaked pelicans, shaggy crows, and vicious...
LONDON — This morning at 8.12 am — exactly 12 hours before the Opening Ceremony — bells up and down the country sounded merrily to mark the first day of the Olympic Games. Brainchild of Turner Prize winner Martin Creed, "Work No. 1197: All the bells in a...
If the role of the artist is to respond to the society and the times they live in, Man Bartlett is probably on the right track. The young Brooklyn-based artist carries out much of his work through social media platforms like Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook....
The Whitney just opened its retrospective of Yayoi Kusama, the 83-year-old Japanese artist best known for her signature polka-dots. The museum is the only American stop of the show, which has traveled through London and Madrid. Kusama herself spent a...
Over the last thirty years, Julian Opie has developed a striking visual language, reducing his subjects to a few, highly evocative shapes. In Opie's hands, figures become almost logo-like, at once corporate-looking, and human. In an exhibition of new works...
Bill Fontana is a pioneer of sound-based art. He's been working since 1976, and recently his audio environments exploring the urban soundscape have been spotlighted in a few high-profile venues: At the Tate’s Turbine Hall, he filled the space with sounds from...
The Swiss artist Caro Niederer paints colorful canvases that explore the intersection of artistic creation and everyday life, often basing the compositions on postcards she collects during trips around the world, or daily snapshots of her surroundings taken...
Barry McGee has become an icon in the realm street art and its associated subcultures of skateboarding to graffiti. His style is a hybrid, incorporating refined typefaces, boldly colored geometric patterns, and eccentric characters. The San Francisco-based...
Land Art history as written has often been a purely male affair, as if the 1960s' reinvention of art's relationship to nature owed only to the likes of Robert Smithson, Walter de Maria, and Richard Long. But Nancy Holt was also a key member of this group of...
