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Featured Exhibition

Painter Painter

At a time when artists may work without obligation to medium, why choose the materials of painting? What does it mean for an artist to assume the role of painter today? And just what is at stake for a new generation committed to painting?Painter Painter presents new work by 15 artists from the US and Europe in a focused survey of emergent… More

Painter Painter: Reframing a Medium

The resolute materiality of painting continues to attract artists, says Painter Painter co-curator Eric Crosby. “It’s a vivid contrast with our daily routine, where we experience so many images by using a cursor. Painting resists this kind of experience,” he adds. “A lot of artists today embrace that… More

Latitudes

Archive as Method

Based in Hong Kong, Asia Art Archive has since 2000 sought to “facilitate understanding, research, and writing in the field, enrich existing global narratives, and re-imagine the role of the archive.” Concluding its #OpenCurating series on contemporary art and new… More

Articles

Growing a Garden

“The public took to it instantly,” says Martin Friedman, Walker director emeritus, on the 1988 opening of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. “Everyone had a comment, everyone had something to say. They took ownership right away because it was a public space to begin… More

Latitudes

Free Forms: An #OpenCurating Interview with Lauren Cornell

What challenges, expectations, and new possibilities does digital culture and social media present to contemporary art institutions? Barcelona-based curatorial office Latitudes (Max Andrews and… More

Latitudes

Digression(s) and Entry Point(s): An Interview with Heman Chong

What “old rules” about art programming, production, and distribution has the Internet broken? Barcelona’s Latitudes is leading an investigation into such questions of culture and connectivity. Their… More

Paul Schmelzer

The Campification of the Divine: Andy Messerschmidt’s Graze Anatomy

“Culturally, I’m a cold-hearted colonialist,” says Andy Messerschmidt, whose work borrows ideas from world religions, from Buddhist mandalas to Indonesian shamanistic rituals to American holidays, in… More

Abraham Cruzvillegas

Prime Matter: Abraham Cruzvillegas on “Autoconstrucción”

“When an object is discarded by a person, it’s valueless,” says Abraham Cruzvillegas. “For autoconstrucción, it could be seen as prime matter.” The Mexico City-based artist gives such “dead” objects a new… More