California artist Richard Clar developed a unique material language in the 1970s and 1980s that wedded sculpture and environmental art to technology and eventually to space science and astronautics. His works invoke high dimensionality, notably […]
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Norman Daly: Viewer Engagement and Early Institutional Critique in The Civilization of Llhuros (1966–1972)
By Kathleen Spies, Ph.D.
Created primarily from 1966 to 1972, Norman Daly’s The Civilization of Llhuros was a complex, multimedia art installation at the forefront of the shift to many postmodern and contemporary art practices that mark the era’s most significant contributions – from institutional critique and viewer engagement to the artist-as-anthropologist and the use of found objects as indexical evidence.
Joan of Arc Sets the Record Straight
By Eve Wood
At thirteen, I knew I had been chosen. There were fleeting signs early on, whispered cries of sedition and always the faintest echo of a woman’s voice fanning the flames of my own wild heart. Who was she and what did she want with me? Sometimes I would catch a glimpse of the side of her face, suffused in blue light and always the scent of mandarin when the headaches came….
SURREAL STATES: MEXICO’S NATIONAL FEMALE PHOTOGRAPHERS
By Briá Purdy
An avant garde artistic movement of Mexicanidad emerged, forefronted by artists like Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. Although their part in the revolution was hardly recognised, the contributions made by female artists to the movement cannot be undermined. There are two major photographers who were crucial in reconstructing Mexican national identity: Graciela Iturbide and Lola Álvarez Bravo.
For Paul Celan
By Ed Schad
As people, later in life, begin to mourn the lives they were never able to live, common laments involve time and undeveloped talents, misplaced priorities, and lack of attention to what could have been the great loves of one’s life. I personally mourn a never achieved facility with languages. … I can only stare at Paul Celan’s poems through the wet glass of translation.
“IMPASSE: A Collective refusal of memory”
By Jana Zimmer
“Why do some people have the power to remember, while others are asked to forget?” A Palestinian-American lawyer said this, but everyone who hears it, thinks it is about them.
FROM WHITE CITY MODERNISM TO L.A. VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE
by Susan Horowitz
Through an international project about Bauhaus-influenced architecture that has been rediscovered, I came to focus on Ben-Ami Shulman (b. Jaffa 1907–d. Los Angeles 1986), who was posthumously recognized …
Collaborating lines
Xavier Veilhan interviewed by Dorothée King
On a summer day in 2022 I visited the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. I was drawn into and intrigued by the diverse simplicity and the all-embracing beauty of the colorful lines of Xavier Veilhan’s A3-sized ink on paper lockdown drawings…
The Artwork of Daryoush Gharahzad
Daryoush Gharahzad (b. 1976) is an Iranian artist currently based in New York. His artwork has been featured in numerous international exhibitions and publications. Alongside this, he has be included in several books, including The Artist, the Censor and the Nude: A Tale of Morality and Appropriation by Glenn Harcourt, which explores the art and politics of “The Nude” in various cultural contexts, featuring books of canonical western art censored in Iran.
My Body as a Laboratory: Topics in Narrative Space-Medicine
By Carrie Paterson
In 2013, my art-science research practice was nearly derailed by chronic-recurring Epstein-Barr, a post-viral weakening of the immune system that is commonly associated with chronic fatigue, and which has many similar effects on a person as COVID “long hauler” syndrome. But this experience opened a new portal into the potentially deep relationship between somatic art practices and human factors in astronautics.
