[Katharina Grosse: Painting with Color] [Katharina Grosse Studio, Berlin, Germany] I got to write this poem down here on my wrist– on my arm. Stilton cheese. I’m going to make a Christmas card for my friends. One side of the card is going to be a photograph of a poem that I really like. I’ve…
Tag: Art in the Twenty-First Century
Maryam Hoseini’s Every Day Abstractions | Art21 “New York Close Up”
[Gowanus, Brooklyn] So much of being an artist depends on daily life, daily interactions, daily politics. And so much of the work is about representation of self. [“Maryam Hoseini’s Every Day Abstractions”] The first time that I realized that making drawings is something I really love is when I was thirteen. I had this teacher…
Theaster Gates: Collecting | Art21 “Extended Play”
I should’ve prepared for you guys more. Things are a little unruly. –Yeah, right on the… –In the same line, right here. I have this keen interest in not just autonomous, singular objects, but whole collections of things. Part of the reason I think I’m attracted to collections is because they constitute one person’s– or…