Source artforum.com  On a December evening in 1933, an English teenager named Patrick Leigh Fermor boarded a steamship in London bound for the Hook of Holland. Disembarking the next morning, Fermor walked into the snowy

Source artforum.com  The mesmerizing art of Grant Wallace (1868–1954), a phantasmagoric amalgamation of theosophical tract, circus flyer, and beauty advertisement—all of which is shot through with a generous dose of science

Source artforum.com  VIVIENNE WESTWOOD. Where to start? This writer was born in London, Wembley, Middlesex, to Jamaican parents and raised in Brooklyn from the age of six or seven. Canarsie and King’s Road are miles

Source artforum.com  Perhaps the most conceptual of treats, cotton candy is a beautiful deception—all surface, textural fluff, and the taste of sweet nothings. Lending its name, en Français, to “Barbe à Papa,” an exhibition

Source artforum.com  SOMEONE TOLD ME Alex Katz swims every day. It makes sense, the strokes of wet-on-wet paint building up like laps across the canvas, a form of exercise. At the beginning of the show at the Solomon R.

Source artforum.com  A partial re-creation of Carmen Calvo’s studio in her survey show at IVAM seemed like an artwork itself, not only because the wooden shelves piled with small plaster pieces, racks lined with mannequin

Source Colossal   “Kymo.” All images © Coderch & Malavia, shared with permission From their recently relocated studio in Ribarroja de Turia, Valencia, Coderch & Malavia (previously) sculpt dancers and precariously posed figures frozen mid-movement. Swirling locks of hair sweep upward into the air, a long scarf billows sideways in folds and wrinkles, and a childlike character…

Source Colossal   “Self Portrait: Free Inside” by Jamal Biggs As abolitionists and activists fight to end mass incarceration and the horrifying conditions of life in U.S. prisons, individuals and organizations have taken it upon themselves to help those trapped in the unjust system. The Prison Creative Arts Project has been undertaking such work for decades, bringing its…