A discussion with artist and messenger Nick Cave: “Nick Cave: Forothermore,” a conversation between Matthew Biro and Nick Cave, New Social Environment #634, hosted by The Brooklyn Rail, August 26, 2022.
Cave’s art blends community building with vibrant works of art across disciplines, including immersive installations, textural
sculptures, impeccably crafted fashion, and dynamic videos and performances.
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A video of my talk, ”Art and Technology,” after Cecilia Alemani‘s introduction, and then a discussion I moderated with philosopher Yuk Hui and artists Tishan Hsu and Jacqueline Humphries at the 2022 Venice Biennale: The Milk of Dreams.
A discussion of my new book, Robert Heinecken and the Art of Appropriation, with some of my favorite artists and theorists, Sheida Soleimani, Andrés Mario Zervigón, and Anne Doran.
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https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201406/what-is-a-photograph-46961
Photography, the exhibition suggested, has never been a single medium, and the digital revolution has simply made it more multiple, heterogeneous, and interrelated, conscious of its own history as well as those of other media.
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https://brooklynrail.org/2018/06/artseen/Sheida-Soleimani-Medium-of-Exchange
As suggested by Medium of Exchange, the latest project by Iranian-American artist Sheida Soleimani, Krauss’s distinction between the Dadaist and Surrealist approach to photography—viewer alienation (and the concomitant emphasis on the conceptual nature of the image) ormystery and uncanniness (with its stress on the polysemy of the world and the people within it)—no longer makes much sense; at least, when used to examine the work of radical artists like Soleimani.
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https://time.com/5295594/drones-hollywood-artists/
“If you think about traditional art and Renaissance perspective, the ideal viewer was on the ground with a stable horizon line,” says Matthew Biro, a professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of Michigan. “And the drone takes us off that. It takes us out of our body in a certain way, kind of giving us an overlaid perspective.” .… The aerial perspective is liberating precisely because it’s destabilizing, Biro says. “Drone vision allows us to see that there are multiple ways of seeing ourselves and seeing the rest of the world. We step out of ourselves to some extent. That’s its positive potential.”
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Hot off the presses, my latest piece for The Brooklyn Rail:
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2016/12/artseen/carrie-mae-weems
My take on the new show by Alex Webb. Now traveling across the United States. Link below.
Alex Webb, Boquillas del Carmen, Coahuila, 1979
Alex Webb, Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas, 1983
© Alex Webb / Magnum Photos
Alex Webb, Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, 1985
© Alex Webb / Magnum Photos
Alex Webb, Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, 1996
© Alex Webb / Magnum Photos
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2016/11/artseen/alex-webb-la-calle-photographs-from-mexico
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Esther Shalev-Gerz’s show at Wasserman Projects in Detroit.
http://wassermanprojects.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/EShalev-Gerz_Artforum_10.2016_web.pdf
“Esther Shalev-Gerz,” Artforum (October 2016) Read More »
