We Love You, Yoko
April 9, 2024
Kathleen Hanna— Yoko Ono was the first punk rock singer I ever heard, an early proponent of female rebellion in song. My parents didn’t go to college, and we didn’t… READ MORE
Tag: contemporary artists
Ep. 125 — Vid Simoniti on the Relationship Between Politics and Contemporary Art
November 14, 2023
In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk to Vid Simoniti about his new book, Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Pandora | Spotify | Soundcloud
Crypto Culture Care
April 20, 2021
Makoto Fujimura— As I write from the desk overlooking my Princeton farm, Bluebirds and Tree Swallows have begun to nest. The peeper frogs have serenaded our evening walks. The spring thaw… READ MORE
Changeability for Survival: Sanford Biggers’s Codeswitch
February 18, 2021
Interview with the artist by David Ebony Sanford Biggers is a multifaceted, multi-talented artist with a singular, global vision. A major touring museum solo of works by the Los Angeles-born (1970),… READ MORE
… in which Nick Mauss answers some questions about Transmissions
February 16, 2021
Transmissions is an installation, a collage of several art forms, a revisionist investigation of New York modernism and sexual expression, and an essay in queer theory…. The juxtapositions show that… READ MORE
Ep. 80 – Exploring Black Visual Satire
November 20, 2020
Tracing a historical line from commedia dell’arte, Hogarth and others to modern and contemporary artists including Ollie Harrington, Robert Colescott, Spike Lee, and Kara Walker, we discuss Black visual satire… READ MORE
Torosaurus, Sea Form: What’s in a Name?
June 18, 2020
James Prosek— For an exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery and an accompanying book, both titled James Prosek: Art, Artifact, Artifice, I juxtaposed objects from the collections of the… READ MORE
In conversation about sculpture: Richard Serra and Hal Foster
November 2, 2018
For your Friday afternoon (which also happens to be Richard Serra’s birthday!), here’s a slideshow of images from our new book Conversations about Sculpture by Richard Serra and Hal Foster. … READ MORE
In Your Digital Dreams: Art in the Age of the Internet
July 2, 2018
Interview with Jeffrey De Blois By David Ebony One of my first internet projects was to write a monthly column for a website called Art Icons, beginning in the early… READ MORE
Encountering the Spiritual in Contemporary Art
June 19, 2018
Leesa Fanning– Encountering the Spiritual in Contemporary Art is the result of many years of research fueled by my intense interest in the subject, the pursuit of which is ongoing…. READ MORE
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