One of Many Possible Art Issues
Raymond Pettibon
I’ve learned so much about drawing from staring at Raymond Pettibon’s work that I’ve completely assimilated his influence. Sometimes I’ll work for months, believing that I’ve reached a new level of creativity. Then I step...
Jack Kirby In The Valley
When he first settled in Southern California in 1969, Jack Kirby was kept up at night by hippie bikers circling the hillside on which his ranch-style home was perched.
Michele Maccarone
Michele Maccarone is the former director of big-time gallery Luhring Augustine. In 2001, she opened her own gallery, Maccarone, in a rickety building on Canal Street in Chinatown, back when nobody had galleries down there. The gallery quickly gained a...
Neville Wakefield
Neville Wakefield is the sort of writer and curator that is sorely needed today. He questions the institutions that now seem to hover, like creepy gods, over the making of art: universities, which just might be preparing businesspeople in the guise of...
Ryan Trecartin
First of all, let’s say it would be hard to find a sleeker art-world hot rod than Ryan Trecartin. In the four years since his feature-length candy-flip earthquake of a video A Family Finds Entertainment was shown at the 2006 Whitney...
Long Live The Large Family
Carl Johan De Geer is a healthy, creative and all-round delightful gentleman in his early 70s who, in rejection of his unhappy upbringing in one of Sweden's most powerful aristocratic families, has lived his life as a perennial underground artist.
Agreement Is Not What We Look For
Strangers to the art world may have come across the work of Cerith Wyn Evans in his collaborations with the director Derek Jarman. Together the two made videos for the Smiths, the Fall and the Pet Shop Boys in the 1980s.
Cosey Fanni Tutti
Cosey Fanni Tutti has cut a singular path along the outer limits of art and music. Growing up in Hull, in northern England, she fell in with the local communal scene in the early 70s. It was there that she met Genesis P-Orridge and joined his group...
Sara-vide Ericson
Sara-Vide Ericson graduated from Sweden’s Royal Institute of Art last year and has already been picked up by the prestigious Galleri Magnus Karlsson, where she recently exhibited her first solo show.