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Days of the Commune: An Interview with Zoe Beloff
Can a series of rogue public performances with a cast of 50 translate into a compelling gallery exhibition? A dynamic show of colorful props, expressionist drawings and powerful videos of guerrilla street theater orchestrated by Zoe Beloff and currently on view at Slought Foundation in Philadelphia proves that the answer is yes. Read More
Beyond Vernacular: An Interview with John Outterbridge
At 80 years old, Los Angeles-based artist John Outterbridge is experiencing something of a breakthrough in exposure of his work. Examples of his assemblage sculpture are on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in the traveling group show "Blues for Smoke" (through Apr. 28), organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, which examines contemporary art in relation to blues music and sensibilities. Read More
Becoming Adults: The Paintings of Elena Sisto
Manhattan-based artist Elena Sisto paints fictitious painters, mostly women, in front of their canvases. The seeming inevitability in the interlocked structure of her compositions belies the many thin layers and changes below the surface. While her earlier works included faces, the newest ones crop them out, but patterns on clothing and canvas, or the way a brush is held, reveal as much about these figures as expressions. Read More
Born Digital: Rhizome's Heather Corcoran
When Heather Corcoran was appointed executive director of the art and technology nonprofit Rhizome last summer—replacing long-time director Lauren Cornell, who had resigned in the spring to co-curate the New Museum's triennial with Ryan Trecartin—she was a bit of an unknown quantity in New York. In fact, Corcoran's entire career has been centered around the overlapping fields of contemporary art and technology (mostly in the UK), making the 29-year-old Canadian a good fit for Rhizome. Read More
Drawing Democracy: Robert Longo at the Aldrich Museum
"Politics are something I'm interested in as an artist, because artists are the first people to get shut down when things get out of control," said artist Robert Longo, who spoke to A.i.A. recently at his studio in New York's Little Italy. Politics—and their attending monoliths—are endemic to a recent series of drawings by Longo, "God Machines." The newest addition to the series, which also includes depictions of places of worship, is Capitol (2013), an enormous seven-panel charcoal drawing of the U.S. Capitol Building. Read More
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Currently on view in the group show "Redux" at New York's Cristin Tierney Gallery (through Feb. 4) are two works by Joe Fig, both related to his 200
