Contemporary Art Reviews and Interviews
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."
A Conversation with Oscar Villalon
"What the literary arts do is provide you with that vocabulary. So you can name the place where it hurts. You can name that itch — and now you know where to go and scratch."
Enrique Chagoya on invisible censorship, keeping our humanity, and uselessness
"The most invisible type of censorship is actually the art market…You have to see the arts as a way to keep your humanity, not as a way to make a living."
