Arte Povera: Italy's Poor Art of the 1960s

From Red Wedge Magazine.
Adam Turl introduces us to the Italian Arte Povera movement of the 1960's, which took inspiration from the sharp upswing in class struggle by incorporating a "hit and run" aesthetic into their work.

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Evicted Art: Notes on Contemporary Art

Preliminary Draft Statement
All around us digital light obscures post-industrial ruin. The Romantics had the gothic. We have the ruins of industrial modernity—its legacies in art and the broken commons of the “American Dream.”

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Plantation Paintings on Red Wedge

Adam Turl's latest showing is dedicated to General William Tecumseh Sherman's "march to the sea," which delivered a devastating blow to the Confederacy in the Civil War and therefore slavery. Here we take a look at his work and republish his artist statement.

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Evicted from Heaven and Earth

Artwork from Surplus Gallery exhibition by Husni Ashiku, Adam Turl and Anna Maria Tucker

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Knight of the Living Dead

_from Red Wedge
George Romero is one of the most important independent filmmakers in the United States--most famously known for movies like Night of the Living Dead. Adam Turl spoke to Tony Williams--who has written extensively about George Romero. Williams's books include Hearths of Darkness: The Family in American Horror Film (1996) and The Cinema of George A. Romero: Knight of the Living Dead (2003).

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New Jerusalem in Chains

Mario Merz, “Che Fare?” 1968

Adam Turl responds to J. Matthew Camp's latest article on Romanticism and Art, "New Jerusalem Unbound."

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Struggle Paintings

Red Wedge Magazine interviews
Anna Maria Tucker

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New Jerusalem in Ruins

by Adam Turl
Aspects of the Romantic can be traced to the beginning of what we now call art -- a phenomenon that began with a spiritual impulse.

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Maelstrom Incident (slideshow)

Painting, installation and performance by Anna Maria Tucker.

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Artist Statement: Dead Paintings VI 

by Adam Turl 
This series aims to deal with two 
inter-related aspects of painting — the current social status of painting itself and “larger” issues of temporality and loss.

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Calvin Williams (slideshow)

Calvin Williams baptizes the faithful with soil in Southern Illinois.

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Joss Whedon's Monster Riot

Cabin in the Woods is like some sort of four dimensional post-modern Hieronymus Bosch painting. It is Hell but it is infinitely more fun than Heaven. It includes murder by unicorn. What more can you ask for?

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