When Klaus Biesenbach took the corner office as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, he gave up most of the trappings of his former life as a curator, swapping checklists for checkbooks. But there was one part of the job he couldn’t let go: studio visits. Now, even as the museum […] More
“Where does the work end, and I begin?” Swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg asks in an exclusive new interview as part of Art21’s Extended Play series. “It’s so hard to differentiate,” she says, laughing, and a beat later, she groans: “that sounded so cheesy… even though it’s true!” Although the fair-haired artist, who appears in the […] More
“BLACK VOICES / BLACK MICROCOSMS”CFHILL Art SpaceStockholm, Sweden What the curator says: “There isn’t so much of a ‘theme’ for the show; the common threads are the links, cultural or otherwise, that we find throughout the African diaspora, ways in which we connect and differ, or come together to bridge gaps,” says curator Destinee Ross. “The […] More
15-year-old Rowan Briggs Smith from England has adapted the famous Kitchener ‘Britain Needs You’ wartime poster as her response to the Coronavirus pandemic. Using chalk as a medium, she drew two images which meet each other on the zebra crossing in front of the main building, one representing the school and the other the pupils […] More
