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The art publishing and presenting titan implemented layout changes to buoy smaller galleries

(WBEZ) EXPO brings a chance to see cutting-edge contemporary art from hundreds of galleries from around the world.

ArtWorks, the organization behind Cincinnati's iconic murals, embarked on a transformative journey with the launch of the New Monument Initiative in early 2023. Now the year-long initiative is in its

His angle was The End. A rollicking disquisition on Minimalism’s debt to science fiction, B-movies, and the second law of thermodynamics, Robert Smithson’s Artforum debut, “Entropy and the New Monuments,” linked the so-called primary structures of artists such as Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, and Sol Dewitt to entropy, that universal force of decay, which erodes everything into an all-engulfing sameness. “Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments...

Suzaan Boettger’s long awaited Inside the Spiral: The Passions of Robert Smithson constitutes an epitome of probing inquiry into a major artist’s “life and work,” as many old biographies said.

a href= http://www.michaelrosenfeld.com target= _blank Michael Rosenfeld Gallery /a is presenting Harold Cousins: Forms of Empty Space, the first

You've seen their murals across Greater Cincinnati, now ArtWorks wants to get into the sculpture and monument business.

DURING THE FIRST DECADE of Artforum, two comments appeared in its pages that have long troubled me. They occur in well-known interviews, the first with Tony Smith, published in December 1966, the second with Eva Hesse, published in May 1970, and in each case the artist associates Minimalism with Nazism. Although no explanations are given, the connections are not meant as condemnations—on the contrary. So what relationships are intimated?1“Talking with Tony Smith” was occasioned by two show...

The film — streaming now on CBC Gem — uses the language of dance to talk about slavery, colonialism, and the possibility of a better future.

Las Vegas Weekly Adriana Chavez and Heidi Rider’s “So, You Want to Buy a Monument” Courtesy Last spring, Wendy Kveck taught an art class at UNLV called Finding America in Las Vegas. “I considered how the landscape and cultures of Southern Nevada have influenced artists’ work over the decades,” she wrote in a blog post for Nevada Humanities. Teaching the course, which included field trips to the Neon Museum and Fremont Street, led her to ponder the meaning of a monument: “Is it an...