A Timeline of Attempts to Fix the Art World
From the founding of the Louvre in 1793 to the emergence of the Underground Museum in Los Angeles in 2012 to the start in 2013 of GCC, a collective focusing on contemporary Gulf culture, this…
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The Anti-Museum Director: Alanna Heiss on the 40th Anniversary of PS1 Contemporary Art Center
Alanna Heiss founded the PS1 Contemporary Art Center in an abandoned school in Queens in 1976. The building had no roof, no windows, no plumbing, and no electrical wiring. This remained the…
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‘Showtunes and Jungle’: A Chat With Mark Leckey About Music and Art
“I like showtunes, and I listen to old jungle,” the British artist Mark Leckey told me a few Sundays ago. “Showtunes and jungle, that’s my thing at the moment.” We were sitting in the…
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You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Tote: The New York Art Book Fair Opens At MoMA PS1
In many ways, the annual New York Art Book Fair—which opened last night and runs all weekend at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City—can feel like the publishing version of the South by Southwest…
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“Zero Tolerance”
Organized by Klaus Biesenbach and Margaret Aldredge, "Zero Tolerance" brings together an international ensemble of artists who investigate conflicts of freedom and control by documenting protests, dem…
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‘This Book Saved Me From Mental Suicide’: Semiotext(e) Channels Schizo-Culture at MoMA PS1
A multigenerational assemblage of aesthetes gathered under the “VW Dome” at MoMA PS1 on Sunday, November 16, for an afternoon of performance, screenings, music, and readings in celebration of…
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Commodifying Experience? “14 Rooms” at Art Basel
The shared interests of museums and the market are often played down by all concerned.Yet nowhere is the overlap more clearly on display than in the new project "14 Rooms," an exhibition-within-a-fa…
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DJing the Future: Mårten Spångberg at the VW Dome
The dystopian commune that set the stage for each of Danish choreographer Mårten Spångberg's recent large-scale performances took over the interior of MoMA PS1's VW Dome last weekend for the La Subs…
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Sarah Charlesworth, 1947-2013
New York-based artist Sarah Charlesworth died June 25 from a cerebralhemorrhage, according to her dealer, New York's Susan Inglett, who spoketo A.i.A. by phone today. No further details were given…
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The Hunter-Gatherer Henry Taylor as Sculptor
"You don't want to be like Michael Jordan when he left basketball to play baseball-but you do have to keep pushing forward," says California painter Henry Taylor of his recent foray into sculpture a…
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