The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has appointed Valerie Cassel Oliver as its new curator of modern and contemporary art. Upon assuming her position on July 7, Cassel Oliver will oversee the museum…
“The ‘Tobacco Project’ began with an interest in the aroma of tobacco,” Chinese artist Xu Bing says over a dim-sum breakfast in New York. Likening it to something between sociology and art, he…
“If you want to touch the invisible, penetrate the visible as deeply as you can.” These words by the German Expressionist artist Max Beckmann could very well be those of contemporary photographer Sa…