Art in the Streets
Martha Cooper, photograph of Lion's Den by Lee Quiñones (LEE), Lower East Side, New York City, 1980, C-print, 16" x 24". MARTHA COOPER If documenting the history of art is a slippery task, doing so for...
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Installation view of “Miss You.” COLIN DAY/COURTESY THE ARTISTS AND PRISM, LOS ANGELES Earlier this year, the walls of PRISM gallery in West Hollywood were painted a deep red—as were the floors,...
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Okwui Enwezor has come to appreciate at least one quality of South Africa’s notorious Department of Information—or, as the Nigeria-born curator likes to say, “Ministry of Disinformation.” Like most...
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Stefan Ruiz’s portrait of Daniel Cortes,a student at Televisa’s acting school in Mexico City, 2004. ©STEFAN RUIZ When Stefan Ruiz landed in Mexico City to chronicle the culture of tele-novelas (Latin...
View ArticleBirds Do It, Bees Do It: Taking Animals’ Art Skills Seriously
Last year London’s Grant Museum of Zoology staged what organizers thought was the first inter-species show of paintings by animals. Baka, a Sumatran Orangutan who resides at Colorado’s Cheyenne...
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