OUTSIDE LA: Remy Jungerman
Artillery Magazine
"For Jungerman, the act of creating is how he honors his ancestral Surinamese upbringing on his mother’s side; the artworks are the leftover."
Fridman Expands to Beacon
The Highlands Current
Fridman Gallery announces its second location in Beacon, New York.
475 Main Street, Beacon, NY
The inaugural exhibition, opening on May 1, will feature Nanette Carter, Athena LaTocha and Wura-Natasha Ogunji. Its title, Land Escape, refers to the artists’ use of a variety of media to create—rather than represent—landscapes. The opening will culminate at 8pm with an outdoor audio-visual performance by Victoria Keddie, using NASA’s live feed of space debris orbiting above Beacon.
Something Curated
Remy Jungerman Reframes Minimalism Through A Maroon Lens
Jacob Kirkegaard: TESTIMONIUM (review)
The Wire
"If there's dread in hearing the environment swamped by the wastefulness of consumer capitalism, it's that of the sublime." – George Grella
Listening to the Heart: Jacob Kirkegaard Interviewed by Julie Martin
BOMB Magazine
"Nothing the human ear can hear is alien to Kirkegaard, and through his recordings he confronts and captures the sounds that echo through the universe, and by making them audible renders them less forbidding."
—Julie Martin
Flash Art
Decaying Sound, Sounding Decay: Jacob Kirkegaard
"Like it or not, trash tells the truth about our time. “Testimonium” is a way of giving voice to waste, without teaching it how to speak or telling it what to say."
Someplace In Between
Fine Art Connoisseur
"Grasmann does not merely
record actual American spaces, but alters them into new ones, working
in a sort of fever dream to arrive at images that suit her objectives." – Charles Moore
Yvette Janine Jackson: Freedom review – vivid voyage through hate
The Guardian
Contemporary album of the month - John Lewis
Interview with Alina Grasmann
INTERLOCUTOR
"I want my paintings to be pictorial implementations of real, existing architecture, in which I can devote myself to personal examination of nature and the transience of things."
The Art Gallery in Your Mind’s Ear
Disquiet
' “Invisible People,” is all hellfire and brimstone, part excoriating exorcism, part calculated recitation of Jonathan Edwards sermonizing (heard here in usefully creepy text-to-speech), all playing out in an atmosphere of dissolute, slow-motion chamber music.'
"Freedom" Album review
The Wire Magazine issue 443
"The combination of vocals, sound effects, field recordings, and instrumentation is presented with an intensity that I've not felt for some time."
Listen: Yvette Janine Jackson’s "Destination Freedom" (Side A)
The Wire Magazine
"Destination Freedom is an example of Jackson’s favoured approach to storytelling: using history to examine contemporary social issues."
Disclosures: Dindga McCannon, or A Table of Their Own
White Hot Magazine
"In the act of communication, at the heart of artistic expression,
McCannon passes from the particular to the universal, transforming the language of her life into a language that addresses everyone and demands they take notice"
5 Artists on Our Radar This September
Artsy
"An accomplished musician with several albums under his belt, [Blitz] Bazawule is also an adept painter. “For me, everything is art,” Bazawule said in a 2017 article. “Literature is art, music is art, even culinary skills are art. I’m one of those artists who doesn’t see the need for clear barriers between art forms.” Through all of his work, he seeks to preserve and convey personal and ancestral memories."
After Dark Online: Hacking the Human Genome
Exploratorium
"Transmedia artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg’s work probes what we can and can’t learn from our DNA, balancing an optimistic perspective on biotechnology with an honest exploration of its ethical implications."
Review of Marina Rosenfeld and Ben Vida: Vertice
Blow Up (IT)
Art For Quarantine: Diamanda Galás Premiers Quadrophonic Sound Installation ‘Broken Gargoyles’
Forbes
"Invoking the facially disfigured soldiers of the first world war, operatically trained experimental singer Diamanda Galás collaborated remotely with artist and sound engineer Daniel Neumann, and video artist Carlton Bright, on a quadrophonic sound work."
On Site: All at Once (Curated by Regine Basha)
The Wire
"All at Once is an expansive selection of works; elsewhere other forms of collectivism are recalled, be they crafts or pieces addressing cosmic and theological concerns"
Nate Lewis: Irredeemable Narratives, Irreconcilable Ideas
Ocula
"The exhibition focuses on ways of listening and seeing through works on paper, an exhibition score, and video installation, with textures, resonances, and rhythms becoming the visual and aural matter composing a sensory triangulation of material, sound, and moving image."