Hilary Irons speaks with Anna Hepler and Jon Calame on their forthcoming artist book, “Trespasses,” in an interview that plays with the “danger and slippage” of both written and visual languages.
The first in a series of interviews in collaboration with Orbis Editions, Rose Linke speaks with Double Vision artists Andrea Steves, Francois Hughes, and Yulia Pinkusevich on their work and research that connects the military histories of the Marin Headlands and Fort Gorges.
Jocelyn Lee’s solo show at CMCA explores the nature of life and death and vanity. In an interview with Lee, Dylan Hausthor wonders if and how feminism, symbolism, and performance inform her work.
In advance of Myron Beasley’s performative dinner on Malaga Island, Jessica Lynne reflects on trauma and the heartwork it takes to heal.
Mimicking the collaborative nature of the Biennial’s curation, five cultural producers in Maine gather in conversation to model the critical potential in slow looking, multiple reads, and shared dialogue.
Vivian Ewing reviews Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art, an exhibition that addresses what it’s like to possess qualities that so much of the world is not built to serve: blindness and blackness.
Yoshua Okón’s multi-channel video blurs the lines between documentary, reality, and fiction, asking participants and viewers to engage in sociological experiments that reveal discomforting questions.
Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974–1995 at MIT’s List Center defines video sculpture, asking viewers to grapple with the spatial and social realities of video.
Imani Roach, a Philadelphia-based scholar, visual artist and musician, will be visiting in July as the inaugual Visiting Critic for The Chart.
A rose is a rose is a precious symbol of optimism in these often dark times. by Julien Langevin.
Justin Timberlake’s new music video signals a kind of gender emergency: what have we learned in 90 years of science fiction?
Graeme Kennedy, in a series of community discussions, speaks with The Chart Editor Jenna Crowder and Julien Langevin about the complexities of Nan Goldin at the Portland Museum of Art.
Ellen Tani reminds us that one’s intellectual world participates in hegemonic systems, even as we forge the tools to reckon with its entanglement.
Clare Tyrell-Morin speaks with Sarah Baldwin about her work in ink in advance of her new collaborative installation, Influx, in Biddeford.
Beth Finch, Lunder Curator of American Art at the Colby College Museum of Art, speaks about what Marsden Hartley’s Maine can tell us about how we understand historical legacy and scholarship can shape the contemporary art world.
Gordon Hall, a New York-based artist, on ideas that surfaced around the creation of The Number of Inches Between Them, a sculpture and performance in multiple locations in mid-coast Maine.
In American Popsicle, Emilie Stark-Menneg evinces a tenderness for the digital: its connection to both the physicality of paint and illusory intangibility. by Julien Langevin
Performance artist Keijaun Thomas discusses notions of blackness, femininity, and materiality in her in-progress piece My Last American Dollar. by Julien Langevin
Bloodlines counters heteropatriarchic narratives of fluid and the body with work meditating on the reproductive body, emotional labor, and power. by Andy Johnson
Emily Mae Smith’s art historical and illustrative paintings summon Marxist interpretations of the performativity of gender. by Frances Barker
Donna Haraway shows us we need new ideas and new ways of thinking, new kinds of stories to think with, because the old ones are failing us. by Julie Poitras Santos
Nothing is left to the imagination until everything is: when information is obsolete, or when there is strategic overflow. by Julien Langevin
Creating public art — and public art conferences — requires deep, internal work as much as it does communication, planning, passion, and dedication. by Jenna Crowder
Lustfully saturated with lucid color and lively tricks of the eye, Elizabeth Kleene’s Tadow Island at Gallery 49 allows viewers to experience an external oasis. by Julien Langevin
Terry Winters and Mark Melnicove collaborate on a suite of prints exploring the relationships between image and word in the physics of space and time. by Megan Grumbling