The street art of the pandemic “tell[s] us about our shared political realities, the people we coexist with in social space and the ways in which our stories and fates are tied together.”
Category: Art
Mr. Dob and the Wall-Eyed Monsters: Takashi Murakami’s The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg
I got a chance to attend the preview of the Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg exhibit at … More
Hanne Darboven and the Endless Archive
Cynthia Cruz sees a lot of Walter Benjamin in Hanne Darboven's Kulturegeschichte 1880–1983, currently on exhibit at Dia:Chelsia. The exhibit … More
The Art of Wall Along the Mexican Border
Donald Trump is about to order the building of a wall along the US-Mexican border. As people who live in … More
The Landscapes of John Berger
Late in his career John Berger retreated in the foggy mists of the French countryside, reappearing every so often with … More
Drum-Taps
This sign was designed for Angelinos to see not a gambling resort in the desert, but a supplement to the … More
Sonia Delaunay and the Avant-Garde Shoes
After a visit to the Tate Modern's EY Exhibition: Sonia Delaunay, Adrian Searle argues Delaunay was a serious, and even more … More
Photographic Negatives and the Unspeakable Event
There are two interesting quotes in Andrew Jacobs' story about Xu Yong's new book Negatives, a collection of photographs of Tienanmen … More
Politics and Art in the Digital Age, Part 2: Reproducing Andy Warhol
Continuing our discussion on aesthetics and politics from yesterday . . . Get ready for a Warhol wave in 2015, … More
Politics and Art in the Digital Age, Part 1: Je Suis Charles Baudelaire
The subtitle of this blog is “aesthetics and politics.” What does that mean, exactly? A set of recent events has … More
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