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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

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

Julie Caniglia

Painter Painter: Reframing a Medium

Julie Caniglia

Art of Opposition

“Non participation,” say Karen Mirza and Brad Butler of the central idea in their upcoming Walker exhibition, is evident “when, for example, people encounter something they believe is valid or necessary—say, homelessness, the right to protest, the Iraq War—but in that… More