Claire Fontaine is at once the contemporary every-artist and a non-existent fictional subject. She enters object-oriented contemporary practices incognito not only to symptomize our current political conditions but also to challenge ideas of art’s capacity for social change.
The 1954 Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis was an architectural and social disaster. I talked with artist Juan William Chávez about his less damning outlook on the history and fate of the Pruitt-Igoe site.
As the weather dips and peaks in Saint Louis’ notoriously unpredictable months from February to May, Laumeier Sculpture Park will be host to Jessica Stockholder’s spring-like exhibition, “Grab grassy this moment your I’s.”
