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Sung Hwan Kim, Temper Clay, 2012. Film still.

Storytelling in Space and Time: An Interview with Sung Hwan Kim

March 15, 2019
Press

Urbonas’ Award Winning Villa Lituania at MO, The Museum of Modern Art in Vilnius

March 13, 2019
Exhibition

Performance artist Caroline Garcia hawks bootlegs and rubbings. Graphics and photo by Marisa Morán Jahn, 2019.

Studio REV-‘s Rubbings for $20; Bootlegs for $100

March 8, 2019
Exhibition

Matthew Mazzotta, Busycle, 2005 – current.

Transforming and Informing Community Through Art: An Interview with Matthew Mazzotta

March 4, 2019
Press

Rikke Luther’s film ‘Concrete Nature: Planetary Sand Bank’ at CPH:DOX*

March 1, 2019
Exhibition

Raafat Majzoub’s performative text ‘Leaving a Secret Place’

February 28, 2019
Publication

Left: Genia with Acoustic Tipi (2018). Photo: Nicolás Kisic  Aguirre; Top Right: A glazed clay vessel made by Genia in 2016, inspired by Standing Rock’s Sacred Stone Camp, depicts the spirit of a water protector. Photo: courtesy of  the artist; Bottom Right: Eclipse (2017), Genia’s expression of the morning star created with a CNC cutting machine for the class How to Make (Almost) Anything. Photo: courtesy of the artist.

Erin Genia: Transforming Traditions

February 19, 2019
Press

Renée Green, ED:HF, 2017, digital film, 33 minutes.

Renée Green’s film ED/HF in Platforms: Collection and Commissions Exhibition at Walker Art Center

February 15, 2019
Exhibition

Judith Barry’s installation “Study for the Mirror and Garden” uses video and special effects, along with architectural mirroring, to evoke the secret gardens, hidden meanings, and picaresque narratives of the “converso” tradition in Spanish literature and culture — which allowed banished cultures to survive by hiding in plain sight. Courtesy of Judith Barry and Mary Boone Gallery, NYC.

Judith Barry: Creating New Spaces for Art

February 14, 2019
Press

Azra Aksamija, Museum Solidarity Lobby, 2013 Caption- Crossed out entrance of the Museum for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, Slovenia. Photo by Azra Aksamija, 2013.

Azra Akšamija Publishes Second Book, “Museum Solidarity Lobby”

February 11, 2019
Publication

Otto Piene, Plusquamperfect [Past Perfect Participle], 2003, oil and fire on canvas, 31 ½” x 39 2:5”, Private Collection, Photograph © Ante Glibota.

‘Fire and Light: Otto Piene in Groton, 1983–2014’ at the Fitchburg Art Museum

February 7, 2019
Exhibition

Jessica Rinland’s ‘Black Pond’: Screening and Performance at UnionDocs in NYC

February 4, 2019
Exhibition

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