Pee-wee as Himself, Matt Wolf’s surprisingly frank documentary about Paul Reubens, has an unusual goal. “I wanted to make a portrait of Paul as an artist,” Wolf says, “and not to tell the story of the ...
Robert Frank’s films include The Sin of Jesus, his 1961 adaptation of an Isaac Babel short story; OK End Here (1963), an intimate chamber piece featuring an original score by the great free jazz ...
Lola and Aldo were founding members of Art+Positive—alongside several other NYC-based artists, including Hunter, Ray, and David Wojnarowicz. This ACT UP affinity group emerged in response to rampant ...
AH: And it wasn’t just the Rio Olympics that found it useful. EH: NASA has a data visualization team, and they’ve created their own version in the same format, which has also been very popular and ...
You raise such a crucial aspect of her adventure, especially in this moment when the self—the self as brand, the artist as lifestyle influencer—reigns supreme. By doing the work of others, Sturtevant ...
This design became a norm for museum collections. The Musée du Louvre, born in 1793 out of the French Revolution, adopted this installation strategy from the beginning. Practically, it allowed ...
On the occasion of MoMA’s recent acquisition of more than 200 works by Ken Jacobs, and the presentation of three of his films in Gallery 411: Ken Jacobs: Deep Cuts, we sat down with one of cinema’s ...
Abel Rodríguez is a sage of the Nonuya people, who live in the Amazon rainforest. He is known as a “plant namer” because of his astonishing ability to remember the wide range of vegetable and animal ...
I do not remember when I first met Richard Serra. But I do remember the first time I was bowled over by his work. It was in the fall of 1996 when I saw the monumental 58x64x70—the title describes the ...
Martha Naranjo Sandoval, Matarile Ediciones I started at Dashwood Books, a store specializing in art books, particularly photography. At a certain point I realized that by working there I had access ...
Early on, for example, Laurie Spiegel sent me a few options, the first being the original files of her piece Kepler’s Harmony of the World, which uses the astronomical sounds of planets; the other was ...
“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take ...