visual art
An LA Visual Artist Exercises Empathy Within Nature
In 'Gentle Existential,' artist Michelle Blade finds clarity in the urban existence by removing herself to the natural world.
Artist-Curator Stages a Life Along a Horizontal Line
An expansive curatorial effort by Elizabeth Price is an intellectual examination of life running along a prostrate spine or glacial surface.
Ordinary Pictures Takes a Profound Swing at the Stock Photo Industry
As the Walker Art Center's new exhibition proves, stock photography is more powerful than you think.
When the Cat's Away, Digital Artists Will Play
Media artists team up in a new show to created to depict a nascent twilight zone of abstract visual language.
Through His Art, Ben Sakoguchi Used Baseball To Understand America
The artist Ben Sakoguchi has lived a wild, widescreen American life. He chose California's archetypal orange crate art and baseball as his ways to tell that story.
What’s It Going to Take for the British Art World to Stop Cozying Up to Big Oil?
We went down to a protest exhibit at the British Museum to find out whether anyone still cares about BP's relationship with iconic UK cultural institutions.
Stimulating Photos of a New Campaign for Pot Products
GOODWITCH elevates its THC oral sprays, lip balms, and lubes to high art.
Listen to Kill Them With Colour’s Musical Amphetamine “Get High”
It's music that occupies his brain's right side.
Artist Marilyn Minter on Her First Retrospective, Anti-Censorship, and Pubes
We caught up with the inimitable painter about her impending retrospective, which she says is "about the overlooked."
Blondie's Chris Stein Shares His Favorite Artist/Magicians
Blondie founding member and guitarist Chris Stein offers a primer on his favorite occult artists, including Vali Myers, H. R. Giger, Rosaleen Norton, Aleister Crowley, and more.
Heathered Pearls Brings Visual Complexity to an Audial World with ‘Body Complex’
With the Ghostly International arthouse at his disposal, this project will live on well past the LP.
The Guggenheim's 'Storylines' Creates New Narratives for Famed Visual Art
The New York museum's new exhibition is a group show, film festival, and literary guidebook—all in one.