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Tan Lin: Enhancing the Book
It is within today's unsteady literary terrain that Tan Lin happily maintains his practice as a poet, essayist and artist. A remix of modernist poet Gertrude Stein's automatic writing, conceptual artist Douglas Huebler's self-reflexive appropriation of text and image, and cultural theorist Marshall Macluhan's analysis of media, Lin's works are as readable as they are relevant. Whether positing parallels between disco and Duchamp in his 2008 essay "Disco as an Operating System," or creating an "extended play" poem in his 300 page boring-on-purpose BlipSoak01, Lin's work engages with the present reality of interactive media, collective editing, and wholesale sampling.
Lin's latest book, Seven C… Read More
Paging: Bob Nickas on Abstraction
You could say Bob Nickas behaves more like an artist than a critic. Since moving to New York in 1984, he has developed a reputation for being a truly independent voice in his field, working against the prevailing narratives of contemporary art without compromise. Nickas has curated over 80 exhibitions and from 2003 and 2006 served as curatorial advisor for PS1. In 1994 he co-founded the highly influential, now-defunct Index Magazine with artist Peter Halley.Read More
The Price is (Sometimes, Arbitrarily) Right
Paintings sold for cheap in non-art venues is usually something artists leave off an exhibition history. For Max Schumann, it's the foundation of a lifelong practice. Since moving to New York 20 years ago, Schumann has installed a steady series of shows all over the downtown area, ranging in quotidian function from supermarkets to nightclubs to a theater lobby; and selling his artworks, small, figurative acrylic paintings on cardboard, at affordable prices.Read More
Pre-P.C.: AA Bronson Republishes His Famous Erotica
Artist AA Bronson (born Michael Tims) was a founding member of the Toronto art collective General Idea (1969–1994), who published seminal artist magazine File Megazine and founded the artist bookstore Art Metropole in 1974. Since the deaths of his collaborators, he has established a solo career as a multimedia artist and worked as the President of Printed Matter, Inc. A new edition of Bronson's early work of fiction shows the artist expanding the book format through experimental, sexual models early on.Read More
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Image courtesy the artist and Macarone Gallery.
In his sculpture and installation, Eli Hansen, who lives and works in Taco
