William S. Smith
Editor’s Letter
by William S. Smith
By identifying the unique aspects of a given city, the Atlas column shares something with biennials and other recurring exhibitions... Read more
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The art world has a carbon problem. Long-haul air travel—the lifeblood of biennials and art fairs—contributes to climate change like few other activities... Read more
Though we publish this magazine every month for readers of the present, it’s also true that we are producing a document for posterity... Read more
Though much maligned, the white cube offers something singular: an environment for presenting and contemplating new forms and ideas... Read more
Stan Douglas’s massively scaled images bear the weight that history paintings once did. .. Read more
Some artists don’t wait for institutions to interpret and label their work... Read more
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The social gains of the postwar period were not bestowed by especially generous plutocrats. People fought for the city they wanted. .. Read more
It would seem that no object could be more at home in the center of the art world, more secure in its identity as art, than a painting. Yet stories in this issue by Kirsty Bell and Stephen Westfall highlight painters whose work remains productively out of step. .. Read more
At the core of her project is a concern with how ideas are transmitted from the past to the present, from the dead to the living... Read more
"Build bridges, not walls." That was the mantra heard often at opening week events for Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. .. Read more
Veteran artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds relates his efforts to commemorate Indigenous history while also critiquing non-Native arrogance in acerbic visual and textual works... Read more
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Concentrating on highly tended spaces, New York–based Daniel Heidkamp infuses landscape painting with irony and formal stylization... Read more
Brashness and self-deprecation combine in the architecturally strategic, multi-medium installations of this former dancer, a youthful émigré from Georgia... Read more
The Brooklyn-based artist's ceramic vessels and figures convey both decorative arts nostalgia and existential angst... Read more
Biennial themes are often underdeveloped, amounting to little more than mood-setting phrases that give a poetic gloss to eclectic displays of artwork... Read more
