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The material conditions of being an artist in New York have a direct impact on the aesthetics and considerations taken in the studio and within an artist’s practice. While the return of the influence of Arte Povera and the prominence of post-studio practices can both can be attributed to ideological and conceptual decisions or to new “structures of feeling” in Raymond Williams’s terms, they can also be translated and defined through the prices of lumber, rising studio costs, ...

Katya Kazakhina analyzes the significance of the details surrounding London power gallery White Cube's opening in New York.

The board of directors of a href= http://www.tinworksart.org target= _blank Tinworks Art /a announced today the appointment of Jenny Moore as its

THERE’S SOMETHING FAMILIAR about these men; if we don’t know them, then we know others like them. Wandering around the house in their undershirts, engaged in ridiculous horseplay, they are our eternally awkward uncles, the boorish family members you hope your friends never meet.Or no, actually. Such an identification with the situations depicted in Tala Madani’s “Cake-Men” series (begun in 2005; all works referred to here are from 2005) depends on ignoring the constant reminders of the...

Working out of the expansive and arid beauty of the southwestern United States, Jason Saager approaches the subject of landscape through combined arti

How Artist Ellen Altfest Built a Fully Functioning Studio Outdoors—and Manages to Resist Cell-Phone Distractions While Painting There The artist’s current show of watercolors is on view now at White Cube. Ellen Altfest. © Vincent Dillio. Ellen Altfest paints her subjects—gourds, armpits, male anatomy—in such painstakingly fine detail that it can take months, or even years, to realize a single composition. In recent years, Altfest, who is based in New York, has increasingly turned her e...