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The Board of Directors of the a href= http://wpadc.org target= _blank Washington Project for the Arts /a (WPA) in Washington, DC recently announce

In Klein’s work, the critical structure and the sheer pleasure of painting are inextricable.

POSTCARDS, FAXES, AND EMAIL PRINTOUTS lie wanly in a vitrine. A plywood shelving unit holds rows of informational leaflets. One gallery wall is plastered with graphs and charts. Another is covered in hundreds of seemingly identical photographs. On a bank of video monitors, talking heads are explaining something. In a darkened corner, a slide projector clunks slowly through a carousel of images. Nearby, a 16-mm film whirs alongside a soporific voice-over. An illuminated table is covered in papers...

a href= http://www.davidzwirner.com target= _blank David Zwirner /a is presenting an exhibition of works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Spanning the ga

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, original name Félix González-Torres, (born Nov. 26, 1957, Guáimaro, Cuba—died Jan. 9, 1996, Miami, Fla., U.S.), Cuban-born American sculptor, photographer, and conceptual artist known for work in a variety of media that addresses issues of identity, desire, originality, loss, the metaphor of journey, and the private versus the public domain. Like many artists of the 1980s, Gonzalez-Torres used the postmodern strategy of appropriating ready-made motifs and objects to ...

Join an online chat about the historic connection between the B.A.R. and its 50 years of writing about Bay Area LGBT bars; with Sharon McNight, DJ Page Hodel, author Mark Abramson, scholar Michael Flanagan, and assistant news editor John Ferranini.

BOMB Magazine has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981.

Read an excerpt from the new book "More Art in the Public Eye." December 24, 2020 Staged between the cubicle-like glass partitions of Brookfield Place’s atrium, in downtown Manhattan, Ernesto Pujol’s performance 9-5 (2015) paid homage to city office workers; writing silently for 8 hours a day, performers’ meditative gesture evoked the repetitiousness of all labor and created a literature of pedestrian life in the city. © Nisa Ojalvo 2015. A mohawk-topped black man defiantly marches forw...

Supposedly, when he first saw the early-‘90s group photos by ART CLUB 2000, art dealer Colin de Land hated them. Not because the images were bad—quite the contrary. Because he knew that they were too good, that the group’s collective self-portraits would overpower everything else they tried to do. He was right, more or less. The cool retrospective of ART CLUB 2000’s work at Artists Space is sort of about the Monkey’s Paw curse of generational fame—a curse which the group was very m...