Ryan Steadman

Chelsea Morning

This Manhattan neighborhood is the reigning epicenter of the art world, but it’s not resting on its laurels. In fact, it’s a neighborhood that’s constantly in flux

Archival Revival

ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES WANTS EXPERIMENTAL FILMS TO SEE THE PROJECTION LIGHT OF DAY

Light & Space

While it’s always safe to say that installation artist Robert Irwin thinks bigger than most, he seems to have outdone even himself with his latest project.

Past Perfect

Goode Times

Prize of the Hawkeye

Impossible to Possible

The Joy of Painting

Enlightenment

Magic Hour

A WALK IN the park never looked so good. The artist Erwin Redl—who works in a variety of mediums including light installations, graphic design, computer art, video, and even electronic &hellip; <a href="https://readartdesk.com/contributor/ryan-steadman/">Continued</a>

On the Daily

IT SEEMS UNLIKELY that a Quebecois design group and a small-town American art festival would want much to do with each other. But the artists known as Daily tous les jours and the Green Box Arts Festival in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado, found out four years ago that they were exactly what the other needed.

Intervención

String Theory

JANET ECHELMAN’S ethereal creations are feats of engineering, architecture, and environmental design.

ART + SCIENCE

GENERALLY, TOM SHANNON sees “invention” and “art” as entirely separate. Unlike many contemporary artists, who look skeptically at the divide between utility and fine art, Shannon embraces their opposition. “To the degree that something is functional, it is less ‘art.’ Because art is a mysterious activity,” he says. “I really distinguish between the two activities. But I can’t help myself as far as inventing, because I want to improve things.”

Day Glow

The artwork itself is a wondrous marriage of artistic and technical mastery, consisting of 10,000 square feet of dichroic panels that gracefully spread across the landscape in meandering patterns. During the day, Jen Lewin's Aqueous’ surface partially reflects the sky in beautiful blues and pinks that shift and fade with the changing light as you wander around it.

Fire and Water

Artist James Tapscott uses simple materials, light and water, to create breathtaking portals of glowing mist through his ongoing site-responsive installation Arc ZERO, which will be installed at Green Mountain Falls for the 2024 Green Box Arts Festival.

After the Gold Rush

Game Theory

Open World at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center takes video games seriously as art, tracing an eighty-year history that runs from Bell Labs and Rauschenberg to a new generation of artists who grew up with a controller in hand.

Prototype

How tech-based art moved from the margins of the twentieth century into a world of its own, from Duchamp and Tinguely to Bell Labs, Rauschenberg, and the artists now hacking video games.

Craft Forward

Our country holds a long history of loving, sharing, and relying on crafts—even pre-dating the Declaration of Independence.

Animalia

Handle with Care

Tulsa, Oklahoma, is now home to the entire personal creative archive of America's most impactful minstrel poet, Bob Dylan. At the age of eighty-one, the bushy-haired balladeer has been sanctified with his own museum, the Bob Dylan Center, designed by Olson Kundig.

Looking Ahead

From New York to Osaka, Santa Fe to Seattle, twenty-five things to see, attend, and enjoy in 2025.

Sweet Emotion

An unassuming ode to love and loss through the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, whose candy installations blur the boundaries of pop, minimalism, and conceptual art.

Rebel Yell

A well-timed retrospective at the Seattle Art Museum explores Ai Weiwei's art and activism.

Kinetic Energy

Through his studio Poetic Kinetics, Patrick Shearn designs mind-bending public artworks; now he returns home to debut a new Skynet installation at Colorado’s Green Box Arts Festival.

Charting Course

Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center’s ArtNow biennial returns under guest curator Lindsay Aveilhé, bringing thirteen artists together for The Soul Is a Wanderer.

Encourage a Young Artist

Mark Rothko spent more than twenty years teaching art to children at the Brooklyn Jewish Center, and his lessons in compassion and confidence still hold.

Walk This Way

Upon arriving at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, visitors won’t help but notice one curious sculpture of a more than six-foot figure that appears to be walking in place.

Minding the Gap