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Doug Aitken and Beck on Making Art in an Age of White Noise
January 6, 2025
On a chilly afternoon in Los Angeles, the two visionaries got together to discuss how making art helps them defy a culture of white noise and fragmentation.
Wolfgang Tillmans and Asma Maroof Combine Forces on 01
January 5, 2022
The pair discuss their experience contributing sounds to the first collaborative album by the Berlin arts collective REIF.
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The Artist Joe Mama-Nitzberg Is Putting His Private Universe on Display
September 9, 2021
“The best work of art is one that tricks you,” says the artist Joe Mama-Nitzberg on a recent Friday afternoon. He’s speaking generally, but these are words that the Catskill, New York-based artist lives by. The ‘trick’ at play in Mama-Nitzberg’s work is rooted in his mastery— and subversion— of semiotics. Messaging from the realms […]
Christina Quarles’s Psychedelic Art Pushes the Human Form Beyond its Breaking Point
April 29, 2019
The ambiguity of the painter’s work speaks to her enduring interest in the limits — and the possibilities — of representation.