A list that could also have been titled, “Diego Rivera’s friends and dissidents.” Selections from copywriting artist biographies in 140 words or less; originally written for Artsy.net. ◊◊ JOSÉ CLEMENTE OROZCO Mexican, 1883-1949 Alongside Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco was one of the major muralists […]
Originally published at The WILD Magazine. ◊◊ Depending on the year it was written, the Bernadette Corporation’s autobiographical introduction reads very differently. It has, since its inception in 1994 in New York City, been responsible for the production of parties, fashion lines and their runway shows, exhibitions, magazines, political films, fashion films, […]
Originally published in The WILD Magazine. ◊◊ “People love dioramas,†Joianne Bittle once observed, “They get emotional about them. It has something to do with making the real non-real.†Bittle is no amateur creator of full-scale environments, having worked as a dioramist for the American Museum of Natural History before […]
Originally written for the Solo Foundation. ◊◊ For a program that lives in the narrow space of contemporary art, the New Museum mounts a show that looks both forward and back in time. There is less than one month left of “Ghosts in the Machine,†the anti-historic art historic alternative […]
Originally written for the Solo Foundation. ◊◊ By some confluence of chance and irony, and something other than coincidence, Kiki Smith was asked earlier this year to produce a temporary installation in Times Square as part of the Last Lot project space—roughly five blocks from the 1980 staging of “The […]
Originally published in the WILD Magazine. ◊◊ Churner and Churner’s Wooster Enterprises, 1976-78 is some mix of a historical art exhibition and a paper goods boutique set up in a previous generation of downtown New York City. It is a small monument to the tremendous undertaking of Wooster Enterprises, and also […]