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January 2021

"The Best Art In The World"

January 2021 - "The Best Art In The World"

Daniel Healey at PBA Projects by India Mandelkern - Los Angeles

Citing “popcorn loops,” “jute strands,” and “deeply marled yarns,” the titles of Healey’s works often hint at the upscale furniture and lifestyle catalogs from which he extracts his material.   read more...

Subjugation, Consent, and Active Resistance: To Cast Too Bold a Shadow at The 8th Floor by Nina Mdivani - New York

In a compelling and timely presentation To Cast Too Bold a Shadow at The 8th Floor, the totality of a woman’s existence within patriarchal systems is broken down into components processed and analyzed by artists.   read more...

Warhol: A Life As Art by Blake Gopnik: Book Review by Joseph Nechvatal - Paris

The relevant salient point of Warhol: A Life As Art is the unquenchable thirst for refusal of consequence or selectivity or hierarchy.   read more...

Melvin's Way: Computation Considerate Coloring Outside the Line by John Drury - New York

From deep down inside of and secure in his pockets, and concealed there in rubber-band bound bunches, an urgency to share is revealed in Melvin Way’s scrap bits of recycled and mismatched papers and on incongruous surfaces.   read more...

Marela Zacarías: the Mexican Muralist of the Twenty-First Century by Isabel Joy Gilmour - New York

While women are relegated to the natural realm, destined to cultivate the earth as they have for millennia, Rivera finds beauty in technological advancement and the fraught notion of progress.   read more...

Artists to Watch: Visionaries in their Studios, 2020: Photographed by Studio J/P Robbins - New York

Whitehot Magazine and Studio J/P Robbins presents 2020 artists to watch featuring visionary creatives in their studios.   read more...

Adrian Ghenie: The Hooligans at Pace Gallery by Mary Hrbacek - New York

Ghenie’s eloquent paintings require viewer concentration and engagement; they are not prefabricated or manufactured.   read more...

Holiday GIF-Greetings from Around the World by Paul Laster - New York

It’s that time of year again, when our inbox is filled with holiday cheer from artists, architects, designers, art centers, galleries, museums, non-profit organizations, and creative shops around the world.   read more...

BOSCO at 1700 Naud by Vittoria Benzine - New York

A press release from Superchief states that this show “sees Bosco transforming the space into several different rooms, each one representing a track on the EP and a new locale for attendees to visit.”   read more...

Interview with Luke Scholes, curator of the moment eternal: Nyapanyapa Yunupingu by Mary Gagler - New York

I asked curator Luke Scholes some questions over video chat to get at the meat of his latest museum show spotlighting Nyapanyapa Yunupingu, a midcareer artist with a personal mythology and signification of materials that would make Joseph Beuys weep.   read more...

Jacqueline Gopie: Freedom to Play at The Copper Door B&B by Petra Mason - Miami

Gopie’s paintings are refreshingly energetic, unpretentious, and wonderfully well-painted, ranging from over six feet to just under six inches.   read more...

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