A Day for Cake and Accidents features a cast of animal characters – each of a different, though often indeterminate, species – who struggle with impending astrological despair
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Tom of Finland: The Pleasure of Play
Tom of Finland, Untitled, 1946. Gouache on paper. Tom of Finland Foundation, Permanent Collection. Photo courtesy of Jean Vong.
One of the major currents in Contemporary art in the 20th Century was the use of tropes and techniques of commercial art in the service of a non-commercial artistic
Karolien Soete, Tempus Fugit, 2013
Karolien Soete’s stop-motion film of nearly two thousand separate images was painted and photographed from April through July, 2013 in an empty furniture factory in Belgium. With a haunting score
Andrea Mastrovito, KICKSTARTING, 2014
Kickstarting is a project based on the interaction between sports and art. Using soccer balls and tempera powder, Andrea Mastrovito together with one hundred children from Bushwick, Brooklyn created
Laurel Sparks: Sacred Geometry and Artifice
Laurel Sparks, Dazzle Drawing 1, 2013. Graphite, marker, colored pencil, and ink on paper, 27 x 23 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
The show currently on view at Brennan & Griffin Gallery, Coal For Wine includes five artists working with unconventional raw material elements in their practice—whether through painting, sculpture, collage, or
Jochen Gerner, Tiktaalik, 2015
In this animation, Jochen Gerner brings to life the doodles, drawings, and notes that he recorded while on the telephone. Jochen Gerner Tiktaalik Mixed media on paper 2 minutes
Report from LA: Tacita Dean’s Blackboard Drawings
Detail from Sunset. Courtesy the artist; Frith Street, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, Paris & London. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen.
The British artist Tacita Dean, who is normally based in Berlin, has spent the past year in Los Angeles as the Getty Research Institute’s current Artist in Residence. Best known
Sylvain Bourget, Spin, 2008
This series of five animated feature films are part of a set entitled Spin, meaning: toss; swirl; rotate. These short abstract films originate from various kinds of proto-sports spotted
Medardo Rosso: The Artist’s Artist
Medardo Rosso, Cheval qui monte la route (Horse going up the street), n.d. Pencil on paper, mounted on cardboard, 7 7/8 x 4 ½ in (20 x 11.5 cm). Museo Medardo Rosso, Barzio. Image courtesy of the Center for Modern Italian Art.
At 25 years old, Medardo Rosso (1858–1928) was expelled from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, where he studied sculpture, for punching another student in a heated argument
Nicole Wendel, Tafel 1 / Tafel 2, 2014
This video compilation records two landscape drawings as they are created, line by line in chalk, upon two blackboards (Board 1 and Board 2). In the subsequent performances, Wendel