AIDS, Art and Activism: Remembering Gran Fury
Gran Fury, "Kissing Doesn't Kill: Greed and Indifference Do", 1989 (via creativetime.org)Long before Facebook and Twitter made getting a message out to a mass audience as simple as a couple of clicks,...
View ArticleHell Hath No Fury Like a Pandemic Scorned
The slogan “Silence=Death” remains one of the most recognizable images from the art produced during the AIDS crisis in America. Created by the activist art collective Gran Fury, it complemented a...
View ArticleSmashing the 80s Away
Brica Wilcox begins the destruction on day two with a sledge hammer. Photo by Jeremy Glaholt.LOS ANGELES — We all want to be rid of certain things. Prized possessions that have fallen out favor....
View ArticlePeter Doig’s Restless City
Peter Doig’s “Just Passing Thru” (1982), oil on canvas, 77 1/2 x 95 inches, and “Red Sienna” (1985), oil on canvas, 70 1/2 x 92 inches (all images courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York/London)I...
View ArticleCold War Flashback: Great Britain’s Plan to Save Its Art from Nuclear War
An underground tunnel at Rhydymwyn Valley Works, where Great Britain considered storing art in the early 1980s (image via Wikimapia) The threat of nuclear war with the Soviet Union reached new heights...
View ArticleDisinformation and the Death Star: The Legacy of Gretchen Bender
Gretchen Bender, “Total Recall” (still) (1987), 11-channel video installation on 24 monitors and 3 projection screens, 18.2 minutes, soundtrack by Stuart Argabright, dimensions variable (all...
View ArticlePhotos Capture Golden Age of Discos “Before Bottle Service and Bland Design”
Multicolored laser beams, day-glo dance floors, mirror-plated ceilings, kitschy patterned carpets, giant spaceship sculptures: from its nascence in the 1960s, discotheque aesthetics has been defined...
View ArticlePeeling Back the Psychological Layers of 1980s Sticker Books
In her solo exhibition Sticker Book, Julie Alpert remains loyal to the elements of craft while reaching for intergenerational connections.
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