Interviews by email are a function of the busy life and digital existence most of us lead these days, and while a convenience they sometimes backfire in their intention. My desire in talking to Trevor Paglen was to get at the motivations behind his work, which for many years has...

Almost willing the project into the annals of marginalia out of which it came (the title alone seems an exercise in refusal), writer-curator Lucy R. Lippard never expected anyone to really read Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object From 1966 to 1972, a cross-reference book of information on...

"Sexual greed is so aligned with capitalism, the cock is just everywhere, I can't believe how much power men have because they have a dick." - Kembra Pfahler

You might not imagine such a statement emanating from the artist of FUCK ISLAND, an exhibition billed as a "Cock...

Summer reading lists are as ubiquitous as the inevitable heat, and while I'm always interested in what writers are reading, I find this genre -- if that's the right word -- a bit cheesy. I mean, why assume people only find time to read in the summer, or even promote...

The desire to inspire others to keep on going regardless of the suffering and hardships encountered in life is a noble pursuit in art, and a tall order at that. But the desire to inspire others to find in their suffering and hardship the makings of beauty and healing --...

As someone who has always been ambivalent about art fairs and their circus-like distractions, whose barkers -- like so many whores dressed in fine clothing -- would have us think that money isn't their sole objective, I'm nevertheless intrigued by all the off-shoots to the major players. And so with...

I have this vision of David during one of our visits in his Bed-Stuy home, sitting in a high-backed chair, smoking a Newport, gazing into the late day sun. It was July 11th, one of the hottest days on record, a heat wave with...

As someone who has yet to send a tweet, the (by now) signature Twitter performances of Man Bartlett intrigue me. Like Rob Pruitt, a self-professed technophobe, whose 2008 solo exhibition at Gavin Brown, iPruitt, featured iPhone photos taken over the course of a year, and the YouTube...