Few cities have the combination of manageable size and cultural ambition necessary to turn the whole town into a sculpture garden. This summer, that’s just what Aspen is attempting, as works from some notable contemporary artists are sprinkled throughout downtown as part of the Aspen Art Museum’s “Restless Empathy” show. It opens Thursday, May 20, Read More
For a second there, Gary Carrion-Murayari panicked, thinking that maybe his boss had called him into her office because she was about to tell him he was being laid off. Far from it. Instead of being fired, the young curatorial assistant learned that autumn afternoon in 2008 that he’d been tapped for a potentially career-making Read More
Somewhere there’s an art history graduate student sitting in Starbucks, laptop and venti decaf latte on hand, writing a thesis on the Whitney Biennial. It’s bound to be a history of arrant egos, frustrated reputations, political intrigue, curatorial missteps and temporary fame.
Part of the narrative will be an inventory of reviews. Given the Read More
