Leading up to their exhibition State of the Art 2020, curators from the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, traveled across the US to find some of the most impressive artists working today. Through their efforts, they brought together a diverse group of 61 artists whose work reflects the present moment from a wide range of perspectives […]
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The earliest exhibitions of digital art took place in Stuttgart, Germany and New York City back in the first half of 1965, yet today’s debates over how (or if) “digital” and “art” ought to mix too often lack maturity to match their advancing age. In the ‘60s the New York Times feared that “almost any kind of painting can […]
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Michael Weil’s recent photographs of Lake View Cemetery remind me of Alvin Langdon Coburn’s 1917 comparison of photography and “black magic,” but not exactly because Weil’s pictures were taken at night and include a great deal of black. Coburn made this connection to introduce his “Vortographs,” some of the first photographs ever conceived as abstract art. In a period of […]
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