“Humanity has so far played the role of planetary killer, concerned only with its own short-term survival.” - Edward O. Wilson, The Future of Life. Under the deluge of political madness that dominates the daily news cycle, and the constant state of anxiety it produces, it is
Rolando Rodriguez’s Solo exhibition Ropa Sucia in the Jean Deleage Art Gallery at Casa 0101 Theater (February – April 2018) in Los Angeles is a two part theatrical exposure influenced by magical realism. It is a play between words, ideas and objects. His trident exhibit
Artists You Should Know As a child in Minsk, Belarus, sculptor Katya Usvitsky’s maternal “babushka” (also named Katya) nurtured and influenced her artistic tendencies, mainly by crafting clothes for her toys. Usvitsky now feels as if she “knew how to sew before she could talk.” Grandmother
Artists You Should Know Many decades before the Internet cultivated fake news, philosopher Michel Foucault flipped the dictum “Knowledge is Power” into its ominous mirror image: “Power is Knowledge.” By reversing the cliché, Foucault prophetically revealed a dire—but more realistic—equation of how authority uses mass communication
Was it coincidence or destiny when Ai Weiwei couldn’t attend the screening of his film Human Flow at the Hammer Museum in early January due to the cancellation of all flights out of New York? Either way, the artist’s absence immediately sensitized his guests to