How Do Artists Do It? Parsing Their Life Stories
For five centuries, artist biographers have sought to explain how creativity emerges from everyday life.
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Rosalind Krauss
Annette Michelson, Pioneering Film Critic and Cofounder of October, Dies at 95
She helped bring French post-structuralist criticism to the U.S. art world during the 1970s.
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Tania Pérez Córdova
Pérez Córdova has produced an unwieldy vehicle for immaterial transactions, substituting a relatively large, cumbersome object for the convenient pocket-size card it immortalizes.  …
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Carmen Herrera, Rosalind Krauss, Arlene Shechet Among Winners of 2016 CAA Awards
Yesterday, the College Art Association (CAA) announced the 2016 winners of its CAA Awards, which are given annually to artists, art historians, critics, and conservators for their…
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Film: Literal Illusions
The camera is trained on a paper scrim shot in negative. For a moment, a white field fills the frame, its expanse perfectly monochrome save a tremor of scratch and grain. Then the space is…
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Performing Is Storytelling: Q+A With Chris Kraus
Chris Kraus has a mind-bending talent for theorizing and performing femininity in the same monologue. The Los Angeles-based author and Semiotext(e) editor spent years directing independent films…
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Say It with Flowers—or Gourds, Goats, Fur Cups, or Fried Eggs
The interpretation of sexual symbols in art is everywhere. But what we view as erotic often tells us less about the artists than it does about our own sensibilities.
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