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The Visual Erotics of Mini-Marriages
by Rachel Poliquin
At the heart of every mock wedding is the simultaneous yearning to coddle and to dominate. Especially during the kitten weddings.
“Destruction, New Construction, and Then Again Destruction”
by Alexander Kauffman
How art that intentionally destroys things—and takes great pleasure in their destruction—is the greatest tribute to the American city.
The Modern Lovers: Ten Contemporary Artists Who Make Images of Their Beloved
selected by Leanne Shapton
A portfolio of ten unsentimental examples of the contemporary muse.
Non-Places, Megamuseums, and Democracy
by Alan Michael Parker
When did museums stop working like libraries and churches and start functioning as airports and shopping malls?
Don Ed Hardy
interviewed by Matthew Simmons
Before Hardy and a few other pioneers, if you weren’t in the military, and didn’t want one of a few standard tattoos—you weren’t getting a tattoo.
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Dave Hickey
interviewed by Sheila Heti
“I do not want to be fair. I want the art I hate to go away. If you want your art to stay around, and I hate it, get your own fucking critic!”
Portfolio: Dave Hickey’s Top Ten
selected by Dave Hickey
Ai Weiwei
interviewed by Claudine Ko
Beijing doesn’t have professional museums, New York in the ’80s wasn’t very interesting, and other observations from “China’s Picasso”.
Liz Cohen
interviewed by Jen Graves
The Arizona artist is building an East German Trabant that transforms into an El Camino lowrider. She also poses on its hood in a bikini.
