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a href= http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca target= _blank The Vancouver Art Gallery /a is presenting Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines,

When James Welling gets deeply involved in a project, he sees the subjects he’s interested in everywhere. His current body of work, Thought Objects, emphasizes textured surfaces. Some of his subjects include flowers, Brutalist architecture, a blue door in Paris, a sculpture table in Guilford, but his photographs do much more than convey subject matter, they open out into fields of metaphor and analogy.

Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines, a presentation of zines made by North American artists over the past five decades, is an ambitious undertaking. Curated by Branden W. Joseph and Drew Sawyer, the exhibition is necessarily a sampling rather than a survey in light of the sheer volume of zines produced in that period.

The artist, who died in 2021, played a crucial role in establishing downtown Manhattan as both a scene and a style.

On the eve of her 12th record, 'Cat Power Sings Dylan,' the musician Chan Marshall visits a gallery and reminisces about her art world past.

Sean Tatol's Manhattan Art Review is a bracing new voice in New York art criticism. Ben Davis assesses his manifesto, "Negative Reviews."

Ben Davis's highlights of art in New York: Xiyadie at Drawing Center, "Manic American Humanist Show," Barbara Ess, and more.

a href= http://www.launchf18.com target= _blank LAUNCH F18 /a is presenting a new group exhibition focusing on a selection of contemporary artists

Barbara Ess, The Disappearance of the Mind/Body Problem (1988) Barbara Ess, the boundary-pushing photographer and musician, died on Thursday, aged 73. Her death was confirmed by her gallery, Magenta Plains, though a cause has not yet been made public. As a photographer, Ess is most widely recognised for her large, emotive images made with a pinhole camera, one of the earliest methods of recreating an image that has been around for centuries. As a musician, Ess played a major role in t...