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Displaying all articles tagged:
Seen
art review
June 7, 2022
Yu-Wen Wu’s Algorithmic Odyssey Around the World
A brilliant work on the immigrant experience, courtesy of a glitch in the Matrix.
By
Jerry Saltz
art
Mar. 20, 2019
The Painting Jerry Saltz Can’t Stop Thinking About
Paul Cadmus’s
Herrin Massacre
is an orgy of ferociousness.
By
Jerry Saltz
art
Feb. 1, 2019
Are Artists’ Bands Still an ‘F You’ to the Art World?
From IUD to Psychic TV.
By
Whitney Mallett
seen
Dec. 17, 2018
Goodbye (for now!) from SEEN, Vulture’s Pop-Up Art Magazine
Wow, has it been 47 days already?
By
Carl Swanson
american artifact
Dec. 17, 2018
This Cotton Gin Motor in a Glass Box at the Whitney Evokes the Legacy of Slavery
Kevin Beasley turns this relic he bought off eBay into a musical instrument.
By
Drew Zeiba
emerging artists
Dec. 17, 2018
Matthew Leifheit and Nicole Wittenberg’s Art-Historical Machines for Desire
A homoerotic nod to Velázquez; conjuring Munch’s
The Kiss
By
Jarrett Earnest
gallery ghouls
Dec. 17, 2018
Michel Gondry’s Son Has an Art Gallery in Their Williamsburg Living Room
15 Orient focuses on the alien and abject.
By
Katy Diamond Hamer
coming soon
Dec. 14, 2018
Banu Cennetoğlu Uploaded 12 Years of Her Digital Life Into a 128-Hour-Long Film
The film shows everything, regardless of boredom or embarrassment: Separations, reunions, funerals, hospitals, openings, demonstrations, her divorce.
By
Osman Can Yerebakan
family feud
Dec. 14, 2018
Did Georgia O’Keeffe Keep Her Sister, Also a Painter, From Getting Famous, Too?
The siblings of famous artists get out from under their shadows in three shows.
By
Jane Drinkard
seen
Dec. 13, 2018
Artist Sable Elyse Smith Was Horrified by a Kids’ Coloring Book About the Courts
Unpacking “Judge Friendly” and archetypes of innocence becoming a cover for state violence.
By
Tiana Reid
seen
Dec. 13, 2018
Seen in Singapore: Edgy Art To See Right Now In the Orderly City-State
One show invites you to try on slippers made from spent bullet cartridges.
By
Harry Burke
seen
Dec. 12, 2018
Seen in Shanghai: What Not to Miss Right Now in China’s Contemporary Art Capital
The Biennale is on.
By
Harry Burke
berlin
Dec. 12, 2018
Anna Uddenberg’s Perverted Performative Sculpture
“It’s about the branding and commodification of the self.”
By
Emily McDermott
miami
Dec. 11, 2018
Boating Out to Christo’s Pink-Wrapped Islands With the Artist, 35 Years Later
“Today, we are bombarded by the ‘goodness’ of things. These are inexplicable, capricious, worthless. That is really the greatness of art.”
By
Jarrett Earnest
seen
Dec. 10, 2018
16 Works Reported to Have Sold for Over $1 Mil in Miami — Only One Is by a Woman
Peruse this list of hundreds of reported sale prices from Art Basel Miami Beach.
By
Whitney Mallett
trend report
Dec. 10, 2018
Is Being an Artist About Making Art or Performing the Artist-Self On Instagram?
“I think about deleting it daily.”
By
Drew Zeiba
prada monks
Dec. 8, 2018
Theaster Gates and His Band Played an Art Basel Gig at Prada’s VIP Club
After a dinner with Kanye.
By
Whitney Mallett
tech savvy
Dec. 7, 2018
Will Blockchain Tech Commodify or Democratize the Art World?
A crypto conference during Art Basel Miami Beach.
By
Taylore Scarabelli
day-glo dystopian
Dec. 7, 2018
Peter Halley’s Anxious, Day-Glo Dystopian Paintings
“Everybody thinks the ’80s was a party, but it wasn’t.”
By
Max Lakin
market watch
Dec. 6, 2018
Collectors Shop at Art Basel Miami Beach, Never Mind the Climate-Change News
Works by Paul McCarthy, Philip Guston, and more sold for seven figures.
By
Whitney Mallett
senegal
Dec. 6, 2018
How Senegalese Photographer Omar Victor Diop Is Changing the Gaze
“My mission is to establish the fact that as a black man, as an African, I come from a lineage of great people.”
By
Brian Keith Jackson
revisionism
Dec. 5, 2018
Meet Leonor Fini, the Surrealist Sidelined for Subverting Gender Norms
“Her work is very emasculating in a lot of ways.”
By
Jenna Adrian-Diaz
art fairs
Dec. 5, 2018
Detroit’s Famous Heidelberg Project Goes to the Beach
What’s next for Tyree Guyton, and his famous DIY civic art installation.
By
Carl Swanson
revisionism
Dec. 4, 2018
Sotheby’s to Help to Fund an Exhibit on the History of Black Cinema
L.A.’s soon to open Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (a.k.a. the “Death Star”) beats out smaller Midwestern museums for the prize.
By
Whitney Mallett
tribute
Dec. 4, 2018
Remembering Oksana Shachko, ‘Artist, Activist, Terrorist’
The Femen co-founder was beaten, jailed, and threatened with execution. It was beautiful to watch her dance.
By
Nicholas Mir Chaikin
seen
Dec. 3, 2018
Art Basel’s Blinky Neon Vagina Artist Suzy Kellems Dominik’s Lumpy #MeToo Totems
“I thought it was very important to say, ‘This woman of a certain age, she’s not going to be invisible any longer.’”
By
Whitney Mallett
meme scheme
Dec. 3, 2018
Sex Is Cool But Have You Tried These Art Historical Memes?
The @drugowl Instagram reminds us that long-dead people depicted in old oil pantings had the same preoccupations as now — love, lies, and insecurity.
By
Rachel Bashein
decentered
Nov. 30, 2018
Should You Quit New York and Open a Gallery in the Heartland?
From Milwaukee to Birmingham, ten trailblazing art galleries.
By
Laura van Straaten
art school
Nov. 30, 2018
Try Copying Your Favorite Master Artwork and See What You Learn
Miming Matisse. Parroting Picasso. Hocking Hockney.
canada
Nov. 29, 2018
Forget Art Basel Miami Beach — Put on Your Puffer Coat and Head North to Toronto
Six exhibitions to check out, including the inaugural show at the new MOCA.
By
Yaniya Lee
how to
Nov. 29, 2018
How to Be an Artist? Start by Drawing the Square in Front of You.
Hundreds of Jerry’s followers tried the assignment. Here are nine of their works.
studio sounds
Nov. 29, 2018
Listen to This Playlist and Get in the Heads of Your Favorite Artists
From Fiona Apple to Fela Kuti, music to inspire a studio practice.
By
Brian Keith Jackson
jock talk
Nov. 28, 2018
Artist Rose Nestler Conjures Neo-Greek Gym Rats and CrossFit Bros
“I think cis men are in a constant state of transcendence.”
By
Jordan Larson
art
Nov. 28, 2018
Advice From 27 Artists, From Marina Abramovich to Mickalene Thomas, on Making It
You’ve read Jerry Saltz’s story on being an artist. But what do successful artists themselves say?
As told to
Brian Keith Jackson,
Whitney Mallett,
and
Cara Ober
monumental trouble
Nov. 28, 2018
Does the ‘Gay Liberation’ Monument Whitewash Stonewall?
An exhibition at the New Museum proposes replacements.
By
Jarrett Earnest
color values
Nov. 27, 2018
How to #BrownUpYourGallery, in an Art World That Loves White Women
Artist Mandy Harris Williams makes you an instructional PowerPoint presentation.
By
Mandy Harris Williams
art
Nov. 27, 2018
Andy Warhol’s Drawings of Shoes And Boys Tells Us Everything About Him
A glimpse of the artist’s pre-fame work.
By
Carl Swanson
vulture guides
Nov. 27, 2018
Jerry Saltz’s 33 Rules for Being an Artist
How to go from clueless amateur to generational talent (or at least live life a little more creatively).
By
Jerry Saltz
flower power
Nov. 26, 2018
Artist Ebony G. Patterson’s Garden of Poisonous Plants and Glass Body Parts
The Pérez Art Museum Miami said: “Here is the budget — what do you want to do?”
By
Osman Can Yerebakan
art
Nov. 26, 2018
The Best New Architecture Books To Gift For the Holidays
From McKim, Mead & White to Mark Foster Gage.
By
Andrés González
art
Nov. 23, 2018
New Art Books to Gift For the Holidays, from Kusama to Bruegel to Vivian Maier
Now you just have to go buy a bigger coffee table.
By
Andrés González
seen
Nov. 21, 2018
How to Spend the Day Seeing Amazing Art All Over Queens
A field guide for visiting the Queens International, dispersed across the museum and local libraries.
By
Rain Embuscado
tropical resistance
Nov. 21, 2018
With the MECA Art Fair, San Juan’s Art Community Rises Again
Puerto Rico a year after Hurricane Maria.
By
Shirine Saad
tech savvy
Nov. 20, 2018
Jillian Mayer Makes Pretty Art From Airport Scanners
Think about this during your holiday travel hell.
By
Whitney Mallett
q&a
Nov. 19, 2018
Ryan McNamara’s Serious, Messy, Kinda Gross Art
“I was thinking,
Why gunge now?
And I thought,
Well, it’s ridiculous
. There’s something perverse about loving the feeling of slime.”
By
Chris Stewart
q&a
Nov. 19, 2018
Judy Chicago Is Setting Off Feminist Fireworks in Miami During Art Basel
The artist is continuing her “Atmospheres” series of fireworks-based installations in Miami.
By
Carl Swanson
art
Nov. 17, 2018
Wildfires and Dead Palm Trees Haunt the L.A. Dream in Zoe Crosher’s New Show
“It was really like the end is nigh, and it was a little too close.”
By
Michael Slenske
amazon
Nov. 16, 2018
Artist Hiba Ali Worked at an Amazon Fulfillment Center and Makes Art About It
A truth-talking cardboard delivery box exposes superstructural greed.
By
Drew Zeiba
vulture guides
Nov. 15, 2018
Jerry Saltz’s Guide to the Met for the Crowd-Averse
A nearly hidden entrance, the line-free underground cafeteria, and a jaw-dropping yet somehow always deserted room.
By
Jerry Saltz
art
Nov. 15, 2018
Sol LeWitt’s Daughter, Eva LeWitt, Grows Her Own Career
She has an exhibition at the Jewish Museum.
By
Katy Diamond Hamer
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