The immediacy of Alex Katz’s current exhibition at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise on Grand Street in Lower Manhattan is astounding. Entitled The Cut-Outs, the paintings on view, erected as flat objects in three-dimensional space, feel as fresh as the era in which they were made: The 1950s-80s.

Bradley McCallum, who constitutes half of the artist duo McCallum and Tarry alongside Jacqueline Tarry, has a distinguished solo career as well. A series of paintings he created in part during a residency at the Coalition for the International Criminal Court, Weights and Measures, has been exhibited at venues around the world. Arcade Project sat down with him in his studio to discuss the history and potential future of this monumental undertaking.

Brian Andrew Whiteley is the quintessential provocateur. A visual artist and curator based in New York, his prowess lies in his performance art acumen. His multimedia artistic practice spans sculpture and new media art. Whiteley works as an investigative performance artist and is best known for his large-scale, interactive projects meant to provoke and manipulate media observations.

Even in an age when everyone is documenting their own lives via social media, some still make art out of portraying the lives of others. We call these soul-sucking leeches (and I know, I’m one) documentary filmmakers.

A Summer 2017 European Art Adventure

The summer of 2017 culminated for this author in a research trip based in Neidersachscen (Lower Saxony) Germany, along the Rhine river.

On a recent visit to Los Angeles, I had the opportunity to attend the opening reception for Rebecca Chamberlain’s exhibition: HOMATORIUM III Lost Horizon at Charlie James Gallery in Chinatown.