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The Art Students League of New York is now accepting applications for its 2024 scholarships. 

Cora was a relentless and ambitious maverick. She was constantly reinventing her work. She wouldn’t settle, wouldn’t stop exploring abstraction. The paintings always seemed to lead her. 

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, and the commuting culture created through the gig economy.

Historicization may be part of what we expect from art, but Fredrick Jameson’s recommendation that one “Always historicize” sounds like a rule. The problem, I think, is the word ‘“always.” It makes it sound as though historicism is always the same and always observed or digested in the same way. “Always” is an absolute, everything else other than absolutely nothing isn’t.

As an investigative journalist, I went from a New York bar to a beach town in Cambodia to explore how organised crime gangs use messaging to dupe Westerners.