Lola Kramer

Jul 25, 2024 | artforum.com | Bradford Nordeen |Azu Nwagbogu |Lola Kramer

On Charli XCX’s soundtrack to the seasonYOU’RE READING THIS ON THE INTERNET, so your eyes have likely tired of all that green. Charlotte Aitchison is the party responsible for all those memes and calls for #BRATSUMMER. Perhaps you know her as musician Charli XCX. This social media moment is hyping up her sixth studio album, BRAT. Offhand, it may seem a fluke, like the dumb machinations of an influencer who by happenstance hit the mark.

Jul 24, 2024 | artforum.com | Azu Nwagbogu |Lola Kramer |Amit Noy

On the sounds of Phillipine culture at the 60th Venice BiennaleMark Salvatus is fascinated with the materiality of repurposed objects. There exists a sensitive resourcefulness in how he forages for paraphernalia—whether miscellaneous photographs, old city maps, or discarded landscape paintings—and transforms them into installations that further complicate their histories.

May 3, 2024 | frieze.com | Lola Kramer

“Focus is different,” says Lola Kramer. In this video tour of the Focus section at Frieze New York 2024, supported by Stone Island, the NYC curator and writer encounters artists working across media and from locations as diverse as Canada’s Northwest Territories to Brazil’s Minais Gerais.

May 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Vaginal Davis |Rick Owens |Lola Kramer |Molly Warnock

RICK OWENS: Do you remember the first time we met? VAGINAL DAVIS: Oh, yes, I do. You were doing work with this band called, I think, Red Wedding? Do you remember them? RO: I do. VD: I forgot exactly if you were making costumes for them or designing something for their stage shows. RO: I wasn’t. I was fucking the singer. VD: Ha! That’s how we first met, through Red Wedding. I think it was at one of their shows, and I was wearing an outfit where I was sort of copying one of my mother’s looks.

Apr 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Lola Kramer |Rachel Wetzler |Jan Tumlir |Clifford Owens

JAMIAN JULIANO-VILLANI THE REASON I DO WHAT I DO is because I love art and I love ideas. I’m trying to make the most of the time that I have. Seeing Ashley [Bickerton] go through physical decline, knowing that his time was limited, and watching him prepare his last show changed my entire perspective. He was stuck in a wheelchair, looking at the future, knowing that his next show would happen without him.