Volume 17 Issue 11
Long Live The Large Family
Carl Johan De Geer is a healthy, creative and all-round delightful gentleman in his early 70s who, in rejection of his unhappy upbringing in one of Sweden's most powerful aristocratic families, has lived his life as a perennial underground artist.
Jack Kirby In The Valley
When he first settled in Southern California in 1969, Jack Kirby was kept up at night by hippie bikers circling the hillside on which his ranch-style home was perched.
Michele Maccarone
Michele Maccarone is the former director of big-time gallery Luhring Augustine. In 2001, she opened her own gallery, Maccarone, in a rickety building on Canal Street in Chinatown, back when nobody had galleries down there.
Neville Wakefield
Neville Wakefield is the sort of writer and curator that is sorely needed today. He questions the institutions that now seem to hover, like creepy gods, over the making of art.
Ryan Trecartin
First of all, let’s say it would be hard to find a sleeker art-world hot rod than Ryan Trecartin.
Agreement Is Not What We Look For
Strangers to the art world may have come across the work of Cerith Wyn Evans in his collaborations with the director Derek Jarman. Together the two made videos for the Smiths, the Fall and the Pet Shop Boys in the 1980s.
Georgina Gratrix
A lot of Georgina Gratrix’s work is ugly, her major interests include bad painting, Paris Hilton, silly string, confetti, critical theory and pretty girls and boys. She also really likes painting. Georgina arrives at every party splattered in paint.
Michele Maccarone
Michele Maccarone is the former director of big-time gallery Luhring Augustine. In 2001, she opened her own gallery, Maccarone, in a rickety building on Canal Street in Chinatown, back when nobody had galleries down there.