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Artist Madeline Peckenpaugh On How She Turns Everyday Experiences into "Spontaneous" Paintings
“I like making the background look like it was the last thing that happened, even though it was first,” the artist said. [READ HERE]
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How a Formerly Deserted Waterfront Neighborhood Attracted a Cast of Young Artists to Lower Manhattan in the Mid-20th Century
A compelling history of the fertile 1950s-’60s firmament surveys Lower Manhattan’s Coenties Slip. [READ HERE]
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When Does Artistic Research Become Fake News? Forensic Architecture Keeps Dodging The Question
Image Credit: Courtesy Forensic Architecture/Praxis Films As the group’s model of investigative artistic research propagates, it’s worth exploring the risks. [READ HERE]
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Fiber Is the New Painting: A Younger Generation of Artists Is Weaving and Sewing Personal Histories
Image Credit: Photo Mario Todeschini/Courtesy blank projects, Cape Town, and Casey Kaplan, New York On gallery walls, tapestries are replacing canvases as young artists disregard distinctions between fine art and folk art. [READ HERE]
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Remedios Varo’s First-Rate Surrealist Storytelling Gets Its Due in a Stunning Chicago Survey
Image Credit: Courtesy Art Institute of Chicago As with many Surrealists, Varo’s images evade description. They seem merely whimsical when summarized, but her technical perfection edges them toward sublimity. [READ HERE]
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Hard Choices: Should You Become a Performance Artist?
Image Credit: Illustration by Pamela Guest Art world ethicists Chen & Lampert offer a quiz to take to see your fate. [READ HERE]
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Sensuality & Independence: An Interview with Karen Lamassonne
Image Credit: Courtesy the Artist and Swiss Institute The Colombian American artist talks about cross-pollination between mediums in her work. [READ HERE]
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Artists Are Suing Artificial Intelligence Companies and the Lawsuit Could Upend Legal Precedents Around Art
Image Credit: Courtesy the artist “AI art seemed like something far down the line,” Sam Yang said, “and then it wasn’t.” [READ HERE]
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The Ruscha Effect: Seven Artists Weigh In on the Impact of the Great Ed Ruscha
Image Credit: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York/© 2023 Ed Ruscha/Licensed by Scala/Art Resource, New York To understand Ed Ruscha, we spoke to artists whose work he influenced in advance of of “ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN,” a major survey on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York before traveling to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art this spring. [READ HERE]
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The Supreme Court’s Warhol Decision Just Changed the Future of Art
Image Credit: Getty Images Unfortunately, the Warhol decision took an already complex area of law and made it even more complicated. [READ HERE]