Contemporary Art Reviews and Interviews
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."
Juana Alicia, Not Erasure, But Context, Murals, Memory, and Who Gets to Be a Hero
"I don't think erasure is good for the history — or herstory — of humanity. The question is: where do they go, and how are they contextualized?"
Michelle Grabner on Unromantic Truth and the Art School Crisis
"If you have to be a barista, or if you have to carry the mail, you do that. Do not entangle the art market into what you need to get your work done."
