Contemporary Art Reviews and Interviews
This Past Is Waiting For Us: Kate Haug’s Collaborative Practices at SebArts
By Tamsin Spencer Smith
Suzanne Lacy, Art, Aging, and Accountability
"Have feminists changed the way we think about violence? For sure. Have they changed violence? I don't think so. You keep doing it because you believe in it, not because you think it will."
Caledonia Curry (Swoon) on Art, Trauma, and Healing
"Unconscious and buried pain is like a coiled spring. Most of the time, all that stuff does is ruin your life — but every once in a while, directed the right way, it becomes great art."
Diedrick Brackens, gather tender night, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
By John Felix Arnold
Cannupa Hanska Luger, A Field Manual for the Future
"I make-believe as a career. I've been doing that since before I could walk. Me making believe is older than my teeth."
Noah Charney on AI art authentication and 85.7% Caravaggio
"He sprints across the room, snips the wire, sets off the alarm, grabs the painting Hitler loved, and the security guards are grasping at the van door as he zooms off."
FBI Special Agent and Art Crime Founder Robert Wittman on Stolen Art, Lies, and the Gardner Heist
"I never lost touch with reality, because I always kept it real. But you could fall in love with the lifestyle."