Month: February 2012

While out in Los Angeles, I learned about In The Make: Studio Visits with Artists and Designers, a collaborative online project between between photographer Klea McKenna and writer Nikki Grattan. A few weeks ago McKenna and Grattan visited the studio of LA-based painter Rebecca Morris, who is having a work-on-paper exhibition at Harris Lieberman in … read more… “Rebecca Morris: Stubborn and independent”

In honor of the College Art Association’s Annual Conference that takes place in Los Angeles this week, I’ve prepared a quiz not unlike the identification portions of the exams we used to take in art history class–but so much more fun when the artists are alive. The following paintings  caught my eye while visiting New … read more… “Art Appreciation quiz”

The 2012 New Museum Triennial, which opens today, features thirty-four artists, artist groups, and temporary collectives—totaling over fifty participants—born between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s, many of whom have never before exhibited in the US. Called “The Ungovernables,” the exhibition is about “the urgencies of a generation who came of age after the independence and revolutionary … read more… “A painter in The Ungovernables @ New Museum: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye”

Best known as the hellish interview hub for hundreds of recent MFA grads, the College Art Association Annual Conference, which takes place February 21-25 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, is kind of like a geeky, intellectual version of Art Basel Miami. The schedule of discussions is dizzying and most university art programs and art … read more… “Two Coats of Paint @ The College Art Association Annual Conference”