Ed HollandinSignifierOctobriana: Myths from the UndergroundCovert artist cells, political dadaism, art theft, and a dissident Communist icon.2d ago12d ago1
Ed HollandinSignifier‘Even if You Painted a Watermelon’ — The Palestinian Artists Who Inspired ResistanceThe visual language of art that proclaims cultural identity and protests oppressionMar 202Mar 202
Ed HollandAgainst Enormity: Mega-Structures and Mega-HubrisHumans are addicted to hyperbole: The tallest statue, the longest city, the biggest hotel. But why do these projects fill me with unease?Nov 13, 2023Nov 13, 2023
Ed HollandinSignifier‘Dark Beauty and Almost Spectral Luminosity’ — the Art of Harry ClarkeAn artist whose haunting work was itself haunted — by the death of one icon, by the exile of another, and by his own mortality…Aug 21, 20237Aug 21, 20237
Ed HollandinSignifierGrass Mud Horse: Profanity, Protest, and Pop ArtIn 2009, amid the fight for digital freedoms on the Chinese internet, a group of mythical creatures were discovered…Jul 23, 2023Jul 23, 2023
Ed HollandThe Singer and the Mystic: Love, Music, and Magick in 1910’s New YorkThe woman who seduced the Western world with her mastery of Indian folk music, also seduced the worlds most infamous occultist.Mar 19, 2023Mar 19, 2023
Ed HollandA Very Small Man on a Beach: Photography and the Joys of Being an Amateur“So I make myself the measure of photographic “knowledge.” What does my body know of Photography?”Feb 9, 2023Feb 9, 2023
Ed HollandinSignifier‘Some Universal Thing’: The Occult Art of Harry SmithGlimpsing the varied art of an iconic figure of the Beat Generation, perhaps the most obscure important artist of the twentieth-centuryFeb 2, 20237Feb 2, 20237
