DETROIT — It takes a great deal of awareness to identify the moment when a fanciful notion becomes a blatant untruth, and from there, perhaps a destructive ideology. It might be easier if these notions took a physical form, one that could hang in space as a visual metaphor. For […]
DETROIT — For artist Mario Moore, it took getting brain surgery for him to allow himself a break. After a (possibly unrelated) seizure revealed a slow-growing astrocytoma, followed by an awake craniotomy, Moore found himself virtually unable to walk unassisted, needing to rely on the care of his girlfriend and […]
Well, anyway, here’s a bit of news! RABKIN FOUNDATION AWARDS $400,000 TO ART JOURNALISTS EIGHT VISUAL ART JOURNALISTS WIN $50,000 EACH Portland, Maine, July 23, 2018– The Dorothea & Leo Rabkin Foundation grant program for visual art journalists has awarded grants of $50,000 each to eight writers: Coco Fusco (NY & […]
DETROIT — The concept of being a “community letterpress shop” might be somewhat abstract, at times. Though Signal Return Press offers workshops, group tours, and community events at other locations, in addition to facilitating the creation of original letterpress works by novices, members, and visiting artists, their leadership, including print […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A survey of works by photographer Alec Soth features 77 examples of his complex and candid portraiture, forming a powerful complement to the Pizzuti Collection’s primary summer exhibition — a collective meditation on the human form as subject, Go Figure. It is instantly clear that the Minneapolis-based […]
It’s all eyes on Russia today, as the Trump-Putin Mutual Adoration Society held a press conference casting aspersions on the FBI investigation into Russia’s interference with the 2016 election in the United States (haha, that’s very normal, right?). Even those wishing to avoid politics in favor of some sports-ball were […]
Rejoice! The latest from Art in Print has hit the newsstands, and in the shiny new July/August issue, which meditates on the topic of weather, is a monograph of Susan Goethel Campbell, written by yours truly! You can read it here! You can also subscribe online or in print, or […]
DETROIT — If, on occasion, I have taken issue with the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit for weak curation or content that fails to connect with its immediate surrounding audience, it is only because I’ve seen what it is capable of when it gets everything right. The current summer exhibition Fictitious […]
I get it, you are like, “Sarah Rose Sharp, I know what you think about art, but I am wondering if you have any thoughts about MENSES!” Yes! Thanks for asking. Menstrual trolling is, in fact, one of my favorite hobbies, and that’s why I was so thrilled to get […]