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Bots vs. AI: Two Kinds of Software Art Take Different Approaches to the Digital Commons
One kind of software art scrapes the digital commons. Another kind lives there.
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New York
Artist-Attorney Ragen Moss Treats Legal Language as a Sculptural Material
Los Angeles–based artist Ragen Moss creates sci-fi-ish sculptures in which biomorphic forms made of clear polyethylene contain organlike objects and hang from metal armatures, suggesting cocoons or…
By Wendy Vogel -
New York
Daddy Issues: Mike Kelley’s Rebellion Against His Painterly Forefathers
Hans Hofmann hung over this exhibition of Mike Kelley's paintings like an oppressive father figure to rebel against.
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London
Is Valie Export’s 1980 Venice Biennale Installation Still Radical Today?
Austrian artist Valie Export is best known for provocative public performances that she described as a form of "expanded cinema," in which she used her body to challenge the coding of female social…
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New York
Comic Artist Gary Panter’s Crude Drawings Riff on Dante, Punk, and Monster Movies
In Gary Panter's drawings, a line is not the shortest path between two points, but a slow, wavering one, a termite's crawl with endless detours and distractions.
By Jackson Arn -
New York
Félix Vallotton and the Dark Heart of the Nineteenth-Century Bourgeoisie
As demonstrated by the paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's retrospective of Vallotton's work, "Painter of Disquiet," the artist was a fine colorist, on par with his better-known peers. Yet…
By Chase Madar -
New York
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy Explore the Gulf Between Working at a Hip Office and Cleaning It
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy's latest show at Postmasters centered on a new fictional video that explores how stark the disjuncture between blue- and white-collar labor has become.
Issues & Commentary
Issues & Commentary: Tool Space
Conceived for the impossible task of serving as an alibi, if not an apology, for the $25-billion development at New York’s Hudson Yards, the Shed, the 200,000-square-foot nonprofit art space that opened April 5, seems almost to invite disparagement.
By Rob Horning
On View
An Art World Glossary for a Turbulent Decade
There are many ways to take stock of the decade, and before this one slips away, we look back at the terminology that defined the era.
Holly Herndon on Her AI Baby, Reanimating Tupac, and Extracting Voices
Postcommodity’s Sound Installation Broadcasts a Luxury Apartment Tower’s Slow Collapse
Two Books about Art History Examine a Discipline in Crisis
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