Sculptor Chris Antemann Awarded $35,000 Grant

Sculptor Chris Antemann Awarded $35,000 Grant

Sculptor Chris Antemann will receive the first prize grant award of $35,000 from the Virginia A. Groot Foundation offered since 1988 to artists working in 3D. Antemann, a sculptor creates contemporary erotic works in porcelain dealing with intimacy, love, and power in...
Interview with Ali Bailey

Interview with Ali Bailey

I profiled Ali Bailey last year on the occasion of his solo debut in Chicago at Golden Gallery, an exhibition titled “You are Young” (the piece appeared in New City; you can read it here). Bailey is definitely what I’d consider to be ‘a...
How to Give a Lawyer a Heart-Attack

How to Give a Lawyer a Heart-Attack

It’s part installation art, part sculpture & part performance art JDS architects: experiencing the void is a proposal for the interior core of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York where a heavy duty orange mesh net is installed like a archimedean...
The Minimum Wage Machine

The Minimum Wage Machine

Artist Blake Fall-Conroy is in the process of making a sculpture that enables everyone to earn minimum wage (or rather, the wage set by the state of New York–Illinois law guarantees a minimum wage of $8.00 per hour for workers 18 years of age and older). From...