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Kathryn Mecca: On Showing Less & Seeing More in Portraiture

Artist Kathryn Mecca in her studio. Image courtesy of the artist. Lafayette, Indiana and Jersey City based artist Kathryn Mecca takes an unconventional approach to portraiture. Our team had the opportunity to…

Bridging the Divide with Artist Tom Day

Artist Tom Day in his studio. Photographed by Meagan Lawler. Our team sat down with Tom Day in the weeks leading up to his first northeast exhibition, Seen/Unseen, a two-person exhibition of…

The Unknown Genius: Vivian Maier’s Prints

If you’re a photography collector you may be familiar with the likes of Lisette Model, Helen Levitt, Walker Evans, and André Kertész, famed street photographers who changed the landscape of their field…

Collectors Guide to Hanging Art in Your Home

For either new collectors or those who have long been establishing a great personal archive, bringing a newly acquired artwork home—to live with—is an immensely satisfying and compelling point in collecting. Successfully…

The Status of Object, A Brief History

The dissolution of a tangible and physical object, ideologically and culturally imbued with an artist’s aesthetic intent, occurs as the notion of the idea as art object arises post minimalism —this thinking,…

Discourse on Art as Business, and the “Blockbuster” Exhibition

In a contemporary art-viewing climate which is increasingly online, mutable, and easily distributed, galleries and museums alike increasingly put forth exhibitions comprised of works which are accessible, purchasable, and uphold a standard…

A-Temporal Acquisitions: Why You Should Collect Video Art

Leigh Ledare’s stirring depictions of brief human interactions outside train stations in Vokzal , Lyle Ashton Harris’ poignant and dreamy recollections of AIDS activism and emergent multiculturalism in Once (Now) Again, and…

Defining New Trends in Contemporary Photography & What to Look For

Last summer, Aperture, the critically acclaimed non-profit photography institution, exhibited an intrepid selection of work from fifty contemporary photographers in their annual “Summer Open” series - an open submission exhibition which permits…

Summer Reading List: French Art Theory to Keep You Cool

For those whose summer plans don’t include an extended art-cation, here is a short but a well curated selection of mid-century french theory to quell your art history inclinations, or at least…

Contemporary Trends: Interpreting “The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths”

In 1985 Rosalind Krauss, the art theorist and critic whose provocations on 20th Century art are the cornerstone of contemporary methodology, published a collection of her essays. The book, “The Originality of…