Maddie Klett

Jan 14, 2025 | artnews.com | Maddie Klett

When artist Paul Gardère died in 2011, his daughter, Cat Gardère, undertook her promise to steward his estate and legacy. Having worked as a studio manager and an exhibition coordinator, “I had a lot of familiarity working with artists, archives, and studios,” she told ARTnews. She began the long process of fulfilling her commitment to her father, but there was one catch: the elder Gardère had not set up a trust.

Oct 24, 2024 | artnews.com | Maddie Klett

THE ARTIST XANDRA IBARRA was caught off guard by a text she received in February 2020. It was a message from a curator she was working with on a group exhibition opening that week at the City of San Antonio’s Centro de Artes gallery. They were informing her that her video in the show had been removed. The 4-minute piece, Spictacle II: La Tortillera (2014), shows Ibarra performing as La Chica Boom, her burlesque stage persona.

Aug 27, 2024 | artnews.com | Sarah Douglas |Emily Watlington |Maddie Klett |Jackson Davidow

This is a strange and scary time to be making art. Wars continue to rage in Ukraine and Gaza, and a looming United States presidential election could spell the return to power of a charismatic leader with fascist tendencies whose most fervent followers regard him as a kind of savior. These conditions are not so different from those in the late 1920s and ’30s in Europe, when Surrealism flourished as artists labored to process the horrors of World War I and the lead-up to WWII.

Dec 29, 2023 | artnews.com | Maddie Klett

Artists are commonly thought to toil away in their studios day and night, but that is typically not the reality. In truth, artists need money to fund studio space and materials. For many, making ends meet is not possible through selling art, and this means finding a job. There is an entire history of artists working at the Museum of Modern Art alone.

Aug 24, 2023 | artnews.com | Maddie Klett

Most galleries have closed their doors for the summer, leaving a more unconventional venue as the surprising site of one of the most exciting shows on view right now: a 50-year-old mainstay for Asian imports in SoHo. In the backroom of Pearl River Mart, the exhibition “Just Between Us: From the Archives of Arlan Huang” is showcasing a selection of artworks and ephemera from the collection of Arlan Huang.