Alex Kuno: Crafting the Curious and the Macabre Alex Kuno has carved out a distinctive niche in the art world with his imaginative and surreal illustrative style, rooted deeply in the fantasy and grim realities of medieval fairy tales while simultaneously reflecting contemporary issues. Living and working in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Kuno has developed a […]
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On a Thursday night in San Francisco, there are lots of interesting places to be. Though this past July, the only place anyone seemed to want to be was at Jessica Silverman for the opening of Chelsea Ryoko Wong’s new solo exhibition Nostalgia for the Present Tense. Wong is a highlight in the Bay Area
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Harvard University will not remove Arthur M. Sackler’s name from two of its campus buildings, concludes a 15-page report by a committee assigned to review the decision. After years of pressure from students and activists who illuminated the donor’s ties to the devastating opioid crisis fueled by the Sacklers’ pharmaceutical company, Purdue Pharma, the committee
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About Vicky Von Knorring Vicky Von Knorring’s educational background is as diverse as her artistic expression. She studied at the prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts, delved into filmmaking at the Tisch School of Art (New York University), and earned a degree in architecture from Kingston University, London. At 18, Vicky embarked on a life-changing journey on
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“PRODIGY” is the first institutional solo-exhibition by Swiss artist Julian-Jakob Kneer, perpetuating the story of his ambivalent double persona through a one-hour film shot on his iPhone. Covered in a silicone mask imitating his face, he continuously films himself confined to a New York Financial District hotel room for three days. In a setting that
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The Church of St. Porphyrius, a famed structure in Gaza that is thought to be the world’s third-oldest church, was struck by an Israeli missile that did not detonate on July 29. This is the second strike suffered the historic structure has weathered since October 7, and once again, it sustained damage but avoided destruction
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After Banksy confirmed a new piece in London today, what appears to be a mountain goat standing precariously on a ledge with falling rocks down a wall and cleverly moved CCTV camera aimed at the falling rocks and not quite at the goat, everyone is asking “what is going on here?” I’ve heard comments about
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She had just died, and I couldn’t stop looking at a photograph of her. She held me there: in her Random House office in 1974, outstretched arms, open palms, eyes cast upwards, mouth widening into a shape of jubilation. I do not know what she is reacting to in the picture, but I still can’t
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About the Jove Wangs’ Exhibition ‘Spirit of the American West’ Pasadena, California. American Legacy Fine Arts present “Jove Wang: Spirit of the American West”, a solo exhibition of landscapes and figures, on view from October 18 to November 16, 2024. The display showcases more than 20 new works by Jove Wang. Gallery Director Elaine Adams
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The conceptual and material action of splitting determines the two-part continuation of “Flipside.” Meaning is positioned as interdependent, disruptions and reiterations trouble the coherence of a visual field, and the ideological relations that constitute an art object are centered, leaving the stuff of language, excess, and embodiment to the crevices that condition the works on
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