Big Red & Shiny’s Benjamin R. Sloat interviews three Taiwanese artists, Chen Chieh-Jen, Yao Jui-Chung, and Chien-Chi Chang, and discusses the challenges of cultural misinterpretation. Marcel Duchamp said the viewer participates in the artistic process – “the artist sets in…
Ever felt lost when looking at a work of contemporary art? Will Gompertz, BBC arts editor and former Tate gallery director, addresses this common phenomenon in his article in The Huffington Post. He offers some solace and explanation for the…
Helen Stoilas writes in The Art Newspaper how more and more museums are focusing on performance, particularly dance, in their programming to revitalize the experience of their visitors. Stoilas quotes PS1 associate curator Jenny Schlenzka on the significance of this…
October 20, 2017: UPDATE – we have heard from the Susan Inglett Gallery in New York that this report from Tyler Green back in 2012 was wrong. Robyn O’Neil’s large scale work, HELL, was NOT destroyed. Happily, HELL is on display at…
When you are looking at art in a gallery or museum do you pay attention to the building or the installation set-up? Harry Cooper, curator of modern and contemporary art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, writes…
Good news – yesterday, the tumblr staff named us to the editorship for the Art Tag. What does this mean? It means we now have the ability to highlight and promote art from across the worldwide tumblr community. We’re honored…
Do our brains naturally prefer literal photographs over abstract art? Does that set up a fight for our attention? As we saw with the Munch blog post last week, painters have been in conversation with photography since the invention of…
Sue Prideaux, author of Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream, wrote a feature article on the artist for the summer edition of Tate Etc. magazine to accompany the Tate Modern’s exhibition,“Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye.” Prideaux writes about how Munch was affected…
Not all experiences of looking are the same. LACMA gallery attendant (and artist/writer) Hylan Booker reminded me of this in his recent Unframed blog post about the museum’s Unveiling Femininity in Indian Painting and Photography exhibit. Booker travels back in time to imagine what…
Over on our tumblr page, we’ve been featuring spooky art to celebrate Halloween. Tumblr’s staff selected our post showcasing designer Magnus Gjoen’s skulls to feature on the tumblr radar – check out one of the skulls below, and head over…