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When Banality Was Exciting on the Web

Bailey had been making experimental software video works since the early aughts but didn’t much explore internet-native video until he came across Petra Cortright, a deadpan idol of aughts net art, and her 2007 YouTube video “VVEBCAM.” Read more on Gizmodo.LINEBREAK

5 Shows by Emerging Artists You Can See Online – Petra Cortright

For her first solo exhibition with Team Gallery, Cortright filled the gallery’s Grand Street space with an immersive abstract landscape. Much like the ever-evolving Northern Lights, the focal installation borderline aurora borealis (2020) has many appearances. Read more on Artsy.LINEBREAK

The Gallery As Clubhouse

“The name “Société,” according to Daniel Wichelhaus, fit the bill for “something that said ‘brand,’ but that almost meant nothing.” Yet it’s not such an inappropriate name for a place whose projects often merge art with everyday life. Read more on Cultured.LINEBREAK

‘You Know the Bird That Does That Crazy Mating Dance? That Was Me’: Petra Cortright and Marc Horowitz on How Their Personalities Mesh

Sometimes romances are born of charming chance encounters and novelistic meet-cutes. Other times, they begin with two people drunk in a hot tub. The latter was the case for Petra Cortright and Marc Horowitz, two LA-based artists who have been together for seven years, married for four, and who recently welcomed a newborn baby. Read full interview on artnet news.LINEBREAK

From Richard Prince’s $5 Million Muscle Car to Bunny Rogers’s Inner World, Here Are 5 of the Best Artworks at Frieze LA

With her Oscars performance last week, Billie Eilish’s captivating sensibility—hypersensitive, at once guarded and vulnerable, defiantly self-determined—may have reached its biggest mainstream audience to date. That sensibility—which one might describe as a generational thing—is also alive and well in art, specifically in the work of the artist Bunny Rogers. Read more on artnet news.LINEBREAK

Der Tod und das Mädchen

Rogers reflektiert über die Endlichkeit mit einer erstaunlichen Zurückhaltung, ruft Vorstellungen von Reinigung und Fragen nach der Zuverlässigkeit der Erinnerung auf, ohne sich den kleinsten Anflug von Effekthascherei und Kitsch zu erlauben. Dafür wiegt die Last des To- des zu schwer. Read in German in F.A.Z 01.02.2020 issue, page 12.LINEBREAK

Künstlerin bringt den Tod nach Bregenz

Die Stimmung ihrer Arbeiten ist düster und schwermütig. Die 30-jährige Künstlerin setzt sich mit Trauerfällen und deren Verarbeitung auseinander. So stellt sie sich auch in ihrer Ausstellung im Bregenzer Kunsthaus im obersten Geschoss die Frage: “Kann man Trauer abwaschen?”. Read and watch in German on VOLT.at.LINEBREAK

Die Künstlerin Bunny Rogers

Bunny Rogers ist eine US-amerikanische Künstlerin und Poetin, straft das Vorurteil lügen, junge Künstlerinnen würden nicht beachtet. Die Kunstwelt nennt sie “Shooting Star”. Rogers hat keine Angst vor großen Formaten. Watch now on zdf.de.LINEBREAK

Bunny Rogers – Kind Kingdom: Die Kunst der Trauer

Das Kunsthaus Bregenz trifft mit der jungen, U.S.-amerikanischen, multimedial agierenden Künstlerin Bunny Rogers (geb. 1990 in Houston, Texas, USA) mitten in ein Thema, das im medialen Diskurs weitgehend tabuisiert wird. Read in German on artmagazine.cc.LINEBREAK

Ausstellungseröffnung: Bunny Rogers

Die junge US-Künstlerin Bunny Rogers nähert sich der Unausweichlichkeit des Grauens – und zeigt, wieso wir besser zweimal hinsehen sollten. Read in German on kulturnews.de.LINEBREAK

Künstlerin Bunny Rogers “Ich bin eine depressive Optimistin”

Diese Woche eröffnet im Kunsthaus Bregenz die bislang größte Ausstellung der US-Künstlerin Bunny Rogers. Ein Treffen in ihrem Lieblingsgeschäft in New York, wo bei der Suche nach dem perfekten Stoffband der Gesprächsfaden nicht abreißt. Read in German on monopol-magazin.de.LINEBREAK

Bunny Rogers at Kunsthaus Bregenz

The artist, very much alive and turning thirty this month, has channeled her affective fixation on mourning and melancholia into an exhibition that will occupy the Kunsthaus Bregenz’s four mausoleum-like concrete floors—an appropriate setting for installations inspired by American funerals. Read more on Artforum.LINEBREAK

BUNNY ROGERS’S PERFORMA PROJECT MOURNS THE DAILY TRAGEDIES OF MASS SHOOTING

Limp bodies lined the hallways of Essex Street Academy, a public high school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, during Bunny Rogers’s Sanctuary. It was the first live performance by the artist, who is known for videos and installations that often employ cute objects with dark twists, complicating notions of innocence. Read full review on Art in America.LINEBREAK