Fia Backstrom, photo of a clay workshop forLet’s Decorate, and Let’s Do It Professionally! (2008). Courtesy the artist Fia BackstromWhat will you be showing in the Whitney Biennial?The title of the entire piece is: Let’s Decorate, and Let’s do it Professionally! I am trying to respond to a situation which is pretty dense and spectacular, as well as…
Installation view, Urs Fisher. The Intelligence of Flowers (2003-6) The Whitney Biennial is arguably the most significant arbiter of what it means to be an American contemporary artist. Yet in the recently-opened incarnation of the exhibition, a generous amount of artists are included who were neither born in nor reside in the US. Has an era begun where…
For this Special Feature, NYFA Current asked New York-based artist Nina Katchadourian to write on her first “New York, New York” class, for which she leads a group of students through what she calls “the cold, deadly river of contemporary art.” Katchadourian was a NYFA Artists’ Fellowship winner in the category of Video in 2004.…
Mount Holly Street. Mixed media. 2005. Courtesy the artist. New York-based painter Kehinde Wiley introduces the work of Shinique Smith. The work of Shinique Smith navigates the leading edge of the written word. Her paper-based installations of extremely mixed visual signifiers marry literature, Islamic architecture, and hip hop music to investigate and expound the narrative capabilities of the…
SITTING IN A SMALL CAFE IN SOHO, NEW YORK CITY Marina Abramovic: I like the adoption project and would like to be adopted! My family life was so difficult, my mother never kissed me, and I never had any good relationship to my family, so I was thinking maybe you should adopt me. Brainard Carey:…
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