How To Write a Review
Go see an exhibition at a museum, a gallery, a studio. See a show skywritten above the arroyo, tucked under a bridge, in virtual…
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“If I Ventured in the Slipstream”: Tamara Henderson’s Nomadic Encampment at REDCAT
If I ventured in the slipstream Between the viaducts of your dream Where immobile steel rims crack And the ditch in the back roads…
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How to Hang a Picture
A year after losing your apartment to a developer’s wrecking ball, after unpacking all the battered paperback and dented pots, the thrift-store nightstands and…
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How to FOMO: Missing Out On the Fear of Missing Out
Along the long evening avenue of towering hotels during the art fair, you weave through the crowds. Another night. The faces flicker and scatter…
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Stardust Tears: Sojourner Truth Parsons’s “Crying in California”
The looping ladies and lipsticked cigarettes of Sojourner Truth Parsons’s past pictures give way here to a litter of pups amidst polychromatic explosions sopping…
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The Tug of the Earth and the Tug of the Sky: The Writhing Stillness of Agnes Martin
Ask yourself, What kind of happiness do I feel with this music or this picture? – Agnes Martin, “Beauty is the Mystery of Life”…
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How to Become a Curator
Develop an interest in a particular area of art, history, or science. Be detail-oriented. Volunteer at a museum or similar institution. Get your undergraduate…
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How To Be an Unprofessional Artist
No one likes being called an amateur, a dilettante, a dabbler. “Unprofessional” is an easy insult. The professional always makes the right moves, knows…
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How to See the Invisible
“An SEP,” he said, “is something that we can’t see, or don’t see, or our brain doesn’t let us see, because we think that…
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How to Art Fair
Nobody likes them. Even if you do enjoy an art fair, it would be gauche to say so. You go because it’s your job….
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