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Rachel Owens
The work of artist Rachel Owens acts as a metaphor to examine contemporary societal and governmental issues within the United States and its activities abroad. Last year, for an exhibition with...
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Alison Elizabeth Taylor: Foreclosed
Foreclosed is the kind of show that makes it seem advantageous for artists to also be craftsmen. In contrast to the parallel movements of “post-skill art” on one hand and “sloppy craft” on the other,...
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Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn
Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn (1995). Middle view of a triptych of gelatin silver prints, each print 49 5/8” x 39 1/4”. Courtesy private collection, USA. Ai Weiwei is without a doubt one of the most...
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Allison Smith at MCA Denver
The contemporary art world – accepting as it may be of the most oblique artistic practices – still responds tentatively to artists engaging with notions of craft. Yet, at a time when the handmade – a...
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Interview with Glenn Adamson
Today’s interview is from our friends at Art Practical, where Bean Gilsdorf gets a chance to chat with Glenn Adamson, deputy head of research and head of Graduate Studies at the Victoria and Albert...
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I found Paradise at ltd los angeles.
As an exhibition of contemporary Puerto Rican artists, one might be tempted to hypothesize that Paraíso, on view this month at ltd los angeles, is meant to express a quintessentially Puerto Rican...
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Co-opting Form: An Interview with Liz Miller
Liz Miller‘s installations are stunningly elaborate compositions, combining materials and shapes in ways that often belie our expectations. In her current exhibition, Recalcitrant Mimesis, Miller...
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Jacob Hashimoto: Paper Paradise
American born Jacob Hashimoto’s eye-catching exhibition, ‘The Other Sun’ at London’s Ronchini Gallery in Mayfair certainly brings to mind planetary brilliance in colour and splendour. Hashimoto uses...
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Craft is Not Dead
What defines the art of craft? What is the difference between art and craft? 40 Under 40: Craft Futures at Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery blurred the lines for me, while at the same time helping me to...
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Andrew Nicholls: The Water Works at Turner Galleries
Australian artist Andrew Nicholls dredges the queasy aesthetics of sentiment for its submerged ideological content. In an ongoing thread of his practice, he locates the ideals and practices of British...
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From the Archives – Craft is Not Dead
Today we bring you an article from our archives in celebration of The Brooklyn Rail’s most recent issue, which includes essays by contemporary craft luminaries Namita Wiggers and Glenn Adamson. As...
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Disobedient Objects at the Victoria & Albert Museum
Sitting just inside the Great Hall and squeezed between two major retrospective exhibitions of wedding dresses and fashion photographs at the Victoria & Albert in London sits Disobedient Objects, a...
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On Collecting: Breaking the Borderlands of Function
Today from our partners at Art Practical, we bring you Djinnaya Stroud‘s recent profile of three collectors whose acquisitions include functional works. Stroud explains, “The need to understand an...
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Crafting a Continuum: Rethinking Contemporary Craft at the Houston Center for...
Since the rise of conceptual art practices within the ever-changing terrain of contemporary art, one often encounters the silly assertion that art making has become a market of ideas as opposed to...
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Howardena Pindell at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art’s current exhibition of Howardena Pindell’s work marks an important moment in the journey of an artist and an institution. The site of Pindell’s first major...
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Steven and William Ladd: Scouts or Sports? at St. Louis Art Museum
Currents 111: Steven and William Ladd: Scouts or Sports? at the St. Louis Art Museum features intricately crafted objects made by the two brothers from which the exhibition gets its name. They often...
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Summer Session – Honor our Wrinkles: Fiber, Women, Dykes and Queers
Continuing our labor-themed Summer Session, today we bring you a thoughtful conversation between the artists L.J. Roberts and Sheila Pepe. Roberts asks, “What does it mean to have men who are making...
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Coille Hooven: Tell it by Heart at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York
Shotgun Reviews are an open forum where we invite the international art community to contribute timely, short-format responses to an exhibition or event. If you are interested in submitting a Shotgun...
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Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen at Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans
For the Chilean-born visual artist, poet, and filmmaker Cecilia Vicuña, the textual and the visual exist and function together in a familial relation, as if the making of objects and the shaping of...
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