Lilly Dancyger’s Negative Space

By Jacquelyn Marie Gallo

MAY 2021 | Books

Negative Space, Lilly Dancyger’s part-memoir, part-art criticism debut in which a bildungsroman-esque narrative of the author’s journey from “a fatherless girl” to “a fatherless woman” is braided with an investigation into her deceased father’s art, as well as his past.

From Space to Environment, Fluxus to Furniture Music: The Women of Kankyō Ongaku (Part II)

By Sadie Rebecca Starnes

MAY 2021 | Music

These are just a few of the women who worked at the height of kankyo ongaku. Today, younger artists like Aki Tsuyuko and Midori Hirano carry on the ambient tradition, while their predecessors continue to expand the genre into the 21st century.

Artists Space

By Nancy Princenthal

JUL-AUG 2020 | ArTonic

Shocking but true: Artists Space, essential model for a generation of feisty, funky, youth-driven nonprofits, is nearly half a century old. More surprising still, initially it depended entirely on government support, at a time when both the governor of New York (Nelson Rockefeller) and the US president (Richard Nixon, newly re-elected) were Republicans. Promising to make up for a dearth of opportunity for young artists, Artists Space’s founders rounded some up and offered them the chance to call the shots, all on the state’s dime.

From Space to Environment, Fluxus to Furniture Music: The Women of Kankyō Ongaku

By Sadie Rebecca Starnes

APRIL 2021 | Music

This two-part essay takes an expansive look at the female artists that both prefigured and forged kankyō ongaku across disciplines, as well as the myriad influences informing their work.