The Angsty Gallerina

“A painting is not just a discreet window onto another world, but has a life in a place, and a life in relation to the paintings around it and to all of us. “ —curator Scott Rothkopf. 

Hear artists, curators, and friends discuss Laura Owens’s pioneering approach to painting on whitney.org. 

“Focusing only on defending against small perturbations is insufficient, as large, local perturbations can also break classifiers.”

A new exhibit at the Museum of Broken Relationships aims to coax positivity out of a normally upsetting experience: a really bad breakup. In The Altar: Good Memories of Bad Love, artists Kate Stone and Hannah Schneider have created an altar that guests of the museum can use to commemorate lost loves. Rather than fixating on the bad parts, or what went wrong, the altar gives people an opportunity to think about the growth and bond that occurred during the failed partnership. - LAist.com

David Wojnarowicz was born on this day in 1954. Untitled (One day this kid …) includes a grainy image of the artist as a child, set within a text he wrote that outlines what he saw the future holding for a queer person. The Whitney will mount the first major, monographic presentation of the artist’s work in over a decade in summer 2018. Explore his work in the Whitney’s collection. 

Norwegian artist Rune Guneriussen (previously here and here) moves elements of domestic life into the outdoors, producing large installations built from books, lamps, and other displaced objects. His works are placed in remote areas of Norway’s forest, and either balance precariously in a selected location or illuminate a particular patch of the surrounding wooded environment.

via This is Colossal

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