The collective infatuation with Kurt Cobain is as ubiquitous as it is poignant. It’s dramatic, too, and incredibly mutable, lending itself well to all kinds of media: consider Gus Van Sant’s Last Days, or the media’s recent interest in Frances Bean Cobain, the beautiful and paparazzi-shy daughter of Cobain and Courtney Love, or the unfortunate [...]
UPDATE FOR THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5: We’ve added to the list. Click here to skip ahead to tonight’s listings. Wednesday, December 5 kicks off the official start of Art Basel Miami Beach — and, with it, all the completely unofficial festivities that accompany the festival every year. While dollars still fly by the millions inside the [...]
Rebeca Raney’s “RANEYTOWN” is a collection of hundreds of gouache and ink drawings and sculptures. It is also her own world, an ingenious but unaffected rainbow channeled through her childlike imagination directly to the rest of us. As Raney describes it, “The moment I started drawing every day, my practice became about what was in [...]
Art Basel Miami Beach festivities kick off tomorrow or tonight, depending on how super-super VIP and early the events on your schedule might be. And as we’ve outlined here, those festivities come with plenty of musical add-ons. But while you might hear a live performance at an artsy party or as a stand-alone event, few [...]
Becoming privy to an individual’s imagination is a privilege of viewing art, a privilege one forgets unless reminded. Sometimes the artist becomes disassociated from the piece itself somewhere between its construction and its entry into the public, but ultimately — lest we forget — those are someone’s thoughts you’re looking at. That’s the manifestation of [...]
Indianapolis is not a city one immediately associates with the arts or anything otherwise cosmopolitan. Then again, a little over a decade ago, neither was Miami. Rhonda Long-Sharp of the Long-Sharp Gallery in Indianapolis, formerly a lawyer specializing in death-penalty cases, has dedicated much of her soul to collecting art, by both legendary masters and [...]
Theaster Gates might be an artist, but he is absolutely an urban planner. At a talk for the opening of Soul Manufacturing Corporation, his current exhibition at Locust Projects, he explained, “I don’t think that I’m engaged in artistic production at all. I am involved in meaning-making. Systems-making.” While he’s exhibited at museums and galleries, [...]
You already know this: while earning your college degree was informative and pleasant enough, plenty of us head in a different direction. Or maybe the experience wasn’t so awesome or helpful, but we’re sticking, steadfast and stubborn, to what we set out for in the first place. Joshua Miller, the executive director and founder of [...]
