Source artforum.com  Billy Al and I met in the early 1960s when he was racing motorcycles at Ascot Park in Gardena. I visited him at the hospital after he broke his back in one of those contests and it pretty much ended

Source Colossal   All images © Katherine Akmulun, shared with permission One way to approach the cinematic sketchbook drawings by Katherine Akmulun is to think about literature. “When we read a book, not only do we look at the characters, but the characters are looking at us,” she says. “And they see much more than we…

Source artforum.com  The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) in Ottawa on November 18 announced that it had released four senior curators from their positions. Departing suddenly are Greg A. Hill, Audain Senior Curator of

Source artforum.com  Workers at the Storm King Art Center in Windsor, New York, on November 15 announced that they plan to form a union. The push comes as the open-air sculpture park embarks on a $45 million capital project

Source Colossal   Ful/mine is a collaborative network of underground artists from all over the world: a digital melting pot that’s becoming the home of unconventional performative art, music, illustration, poetry, literature, and cutting-edge artistic practices. The idea was born from a commitment at the hands of Guidi—the iconic Italian shoe and bag designer known worldwide…

Source Colossal   “Taraxacum,” graphite and colored pencil on antique ledger book pages, 75 1/4 x 95 inches. All images courtesy of Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, NYC, and Galerie Isa, Mumbai, shared with permission Balance, symmetry, and the geometries of proportion create a distinct visual lexicon for Louise Despont. Working in graphite and colored pencil on antique…

Source artforum.com  What makes the body a hybrid material for sculpture? In “Future Bodies,” Patrizia Dander and Franziska Linhardt explore this question through the relation between art and technology. Their transgenerational

Source Artsy Shark  Painter Tara Verkuil shares a collection of whimsical mixed media abstracts that delight the senses. The post Featured Artist Tara Verkuil appeared first on Artsy Shark.