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Jenny Holzer at the Guggenheim Museum. Photo: Ander Gillenea/AFP/Getty Images. Mail art, a democratized genre that stresses a tactile sense of connection we could all use more of these days, is having quite a renaissance during the lockdown era. And now, the Danish agency Creator Projects is pushing it a step further. Its latest initiative,  M.M.S. ( Much. More. Shit.), allows even the humblest collectors to buy a set of 12 works by major artists (including Tania Bruguera, Daniel Buren, Martin Creed, Katharina Grosse, Jenny Holzer, and Alicja Kwade) for just €200 ($243). The small art...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........“Hindsight/Insight” offers virtual visitors a taste of the University of New Mexico Art Museum with works ranging from Bruce Conner’s Funk Art to the sublime modernism of Georgia O’Keeffe. Georgia O’Keeffe (American, 1887-1986) “White Flowers,” 1926, oil on canvas, 32 x 12 inches. (Courtesy of the University of New Mexico Art Museum) Online and ongoing at artmuseum.unm.edu, the self-gu...

Sam Whiting January 25, 2021Updated: January 26, 2021, 7:10 am Dimitri Grachis in the doorway of Spatsa Gallery. Photo: John Natsoulas Press Spatsa Gallery lasted only four years in San Francisco, but they were four crucial years, 1957-1961, as the assemblage art associated with the Beats bridged into the abstract expressionism and cubism of the 1960s. Never a commercial gallery, Spatsa was artist-run by its owner, Dimitri Grachis, who lived in the office behind the storefront on Filbert Street at Fillmore. Grachis, who closed Spatsa to concentrate on his own career as a minimal ...

Something was happening to the western in the 1960s and ’70s. The old screen heroes were ageing out and so were their moralities. The Shootist (1976) saw John Wayne confronting his age and mortality, while Robert Altman’s McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) and Peckinpah’s Pat Garett and Billy the Kid (1973) cast the western’s classical heroism into an elegiac doubt. This was what came to be known as the revisionist western, a wave of westerns demythologizing, mourning, and critiquing John Ford’s west of good guys in white, bad guys in black, cowboys and Indians. Meanwhile from out of Ita...

Show People (1928) to Quentin Tarantino’s elegiac Once Upon a Time In Hollywood (2019) films about Hollywood, and by extension Los Angeles, have been there from the start of movies and continued in various guises throughout its multifarious history, often with tongue planted firmly in cheek. Throughout the sixties and early seventies several films were produced that spoke of the end of Hollywood as a creative enterprise, that is, as a field in which artists could examine their emotions and ideas and their response to the contemporary world – a civilization in crisis that they sought to d...