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China’s Most Adventurous Museum Director on Global Art’s Post-COVID Future
In late January, Philip Tinari, the director of Beijing's pioneering UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, was in Davos, Switzerland for the latest outing on the non-stop international carousel of events…
Published on 5 years, 7 months ago
YouTube’s No-Nonsense Art Guru on How to Unlock Your Inner Artist
How many times have you heard someone in a museum scoff "I could do that" in the presence of a solid-black canvas or an obtuse conceptual installation? You're not alone, and frankly, curator-turned-Y…
Published on 5 years, 7 months ago
How Marina Abramović Became the Center of a Vast Satanic Conspiracy Theory
Just when you thought the spring of 2020 couldn't get any weirder, a Microsoft ad starring performance artist Marina Abramović caught the attention of conspiracy peddler Alex Jones and his followers…
Published on 5 years, 7 months ago
The New Yorker's Peter Schjeldahl on His Adventures in Life as an Accidental Art Critic
In his 2019 essay "The Art of Dying," acclaimed critic Peter Schjeldahl describes Patsy Cline's voice as "attending selflessly to the sounds and the senses of the words... consummate." The same could…
Published on 5 years, 7 months ago
Ai Weiwei on the Coronavirus, China, and Art's New Role
Ai Weiwei is not shy about tackling the big issues. Despite winning international acclaim for his interdisciplinary, boundary-pushing art, the Chinese-born artist is better known in some circles for …
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
How Photography Is Being Revolutionized in the Coronavirus Era
Today, Antwaun Sargent is known as the preeminent critical and curatorial voice for one of the most important movements in contemporary photography. Along with its accompanying exhibition, his book, …
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
Why Germany's COVID-19 Relief Plan Is the Envy of the Art World
Although the coronavirus pandemic is first and foremost a public-health emergency, it rapidly proved to be a deep financial emergency, too. With businesses and cultural institutions around the world …
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
The Unbelievable True Story of the Mystical Painter Agnes Pelton
Art history thrives on stories of fearless visionaries leaving behind the lives they've known to embark on journeys into uncertain lands for personal enrichment and artistic illumination. But few are…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
Three Ways Coronavirus Will Transform the Art World
In the past month, the world—and by extension, the art world—has changed so drastically that it is almost unrecognizable. While the novel 2019 coronavirus continues to threaten countries around the g…
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago
Why Art and Fashion Need Each Other Now
For its first-ever live episode, recorded at the 2020 Armory Show, the Art Angle brought on couture wunderkind Sander Lak, the creative director of the white-hot Sies Marjan, to discuss the intersect…
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago