Source Design You Trust  The term ‘teenager’ was first introduced to the American public in the 1940s as a moniker coined by advertising executives looking to sell their products to a new audience. h/t: vintag.es The 1950s were marked by the emergence of a distinct teen culture. Seeking to distance themselves from the culture of…

Source Colossal   Installation view of “Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces,” (2022). Photo by Dario Lasagni, courtesy of the New Museum. All images © Theaster Gates, shared with permission The first major retrospective of its kind, Young Lords and Their Traces unveils the aesthetic and intellectual lineage that’s guided artist Theaster Gates for the past two…

Source artforum.com  A ROMANIAN FILMMAKER who regularly deflates Romanian myths of national greatness, Radu Jude recently graced the New York Film Festival with a compact, farcical essay on the material basis of historical

Source Colossal   “Harvey’s Twitter SOS” (2019), paper, wood, vinyl, and data, 84 x 108 x 12 inches. All images © Nathalie Miebach, shared with permission For Boston-based artist Nathalie Miebach, art is a way to translate scientific data into a visual language of patterns and relationships. In 2007, when she first began to make works…

Source Artsy Shark  Watercolorist Carol Sue Witt shares a stunning collection of paintings that show the spontaneity of her medium. View more of her portfolio on her website.   “Low Water Crossing” watercolor, 32″ x 22″   My main goal in painting has been to capture a moment, a feeling; but the more I paint,…

Source artforum.com  Shirley Bassey’s 1971 soul ballad “(Where Do I Begin) Love Story” echoes throughout “Omweg” (a shared Dutch and Afrikaans word meaning something akin to “detour”), Moshekwa Langa’s first major solo

Source artforum.com  The fourteen paintings on display in Uman’s solo exhibition “Goodnight Sweetdreams” suggest an act of temperance on the part of the artist, of balancing internal forces, while also celebrating the

Source artforum.com  In 2015, Joanna Piotrowska was photographing in Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed territory within Azerbaijan, when she was apprehended by local police. Accused of spying for Russia, Piotrowska was subjected