Dylan Kerr
Hometown:Cromwell, CT
Lives and Works:Brooklyn, NY
Education: Vassar College
Bio
About the Author
Dylan is a writer and curator based in Brooklyn. He holds a degree in Media Studies from Vassar College. Prior to joining Artspace, he worked for BOMB magazine, Badlands Unlimited, Flow Advisory, and other art/publishing businesses. Areas of interest include the crossovers between art and science, computer generated imagery, and the use of nonhuman actors in art.
Articles
Articles
- 7 Young Rising Stars to Discover at Art Basel Miami Beach 2016
- Prague, Art City of the Future? SVIT's Michal Mánek on Re-Introducing Czech Art to the World
- NADA Director Heather Hubbs on Giving Emerging Galleries a "Fair" Chance
- Simon Starling on Making Heady Art From the Secret, Spooky Histories of the 20th Century
- From Kisses to Cool Remove: MoMA Curator Laura Hoptman on the Recent Revolution of Painting in New York
- Art for the Post-Apartheid Kids: South African Artist Robin Rhode on Drawing a New Future on the Street
- MoMA Curator Laura Hoptman on How to Tell a Good Painting From a “Bogus” Painting
- DAMA's Giorgio Galotti on Why a Turin Palazzo Is the Perfect Site for a Tiny Emerging Art Fair
- Art Advisor Joyce Varvatos on Collecting to Fit Your Personal Style—Whatever It May Be
- MoMA, the Groovy Years: 7 Transformative Exhibitions From the Swinging Sixties
- Ibid's Magnus Edensvard on Why L.A. Is a European Art Dealer's Dream Come True
- Artist and Poet Etel Adnan on How She Seeks Bliss Through Capturing the World’s Visual Beauty
- MoMA’s First Decade: 10 Radical Exhibitions We Wish We Had Been Alive to See
- 10 of the Best Artworks on View in Chelsea Right Now
- The Artist’s Guide to Selling Out in Style: Jonas Lund on Why He Turned His Art Into Ad Space
- Hello Painting, My Old Friend: Why Sculptor Aaron Curry Is Rekindling His Romance With the Canvas
- Cracking the Code: Code Art Fair Head Julie Leopold Alf on the Inspiration Behind Copenhagen’s Newest Art Event
- Sweat, Sport, and Sex: Artist Eddie Peake on Finding the Erotic in the Olympics
- “Modernist Cuisine” Author Nathan Myhrvold Predicts the New Future of Food
- Hank Willis Thomas on How His Artist-Run Super PAC Will Disrupt the 2016 Election
- Life’s a Beach! Halsey McKay on How They Started a Gallery in Ritzy East Hampton for Next to Nothing
- How to Understand Rosalind Krauss, the Art Critic Who Made Theory Cool (and Inescapable)
- A Few Questions for Simon Schubert, Germany's Paper-Folding Virtuoso
- In Search of a More Equal Art History: Curator Adrienne Edwards on the Upending Power of "Blackness in Abstraction"
- What Do Kate Moss, the Queen of England, and the Dalai Lama Have in Common? A Q&A With Chris Levine
- British Filmmaker John Akomfrah on Why the Brexit Puts the U.K.'s Culture in “Very Serious Trouble”
- A Few Questions for Carlos Bruscianelli, the Venezuelan Painter Making Hyperrealism Cool Again
- Kosovar Art Star Flaka Haliti on Why We All Should Be Watching the Balkans
- Gallerist Derek Eller on Why You Need to Be Endlessly Adaptable to Make It as an Art Dealer Today
- Why Won’t Artists Leave Animals Alone? On the Questionable Ethics, and Rising Popularity, of Critter Art
- Only Connect: 7 Visions of the Future From the New Museum's Seven on Seven Conference
- A Few Questions for Guy Richards Smit, the Skull-Painting Sitcom Star of the Art World
- Meet Michael Xufu Huang, the 22-Year-Old Museum Co-Founder Who's Building "The MoMA of China"
- A Few Questions for Baron Von Fancy, the Designer-Turned-Bike Messenger Sneaking Text Art Into Your Food Delivery
- Meet the Dealers: Dubai's The Third Line Brings Middle Eastern Artist to the Fore in the West
- Upcycling, Video Games, and Urinal Art: 3 Trends to Note at NADA New York 2016
- 5 Emerging Artists to Discover at Frieze New York 2016
- A Few Questions for Sterling Lawrence on How He Turned Empty Shelves Into an Art Form
- Richard Tuttle on Why He Finds Solace in the Spirituality of Art—Not Religion
- Collectors Susan and Michael Hort's Picks from Cologne and Berlin 2016
- A Few Questions for Elizabeth Atterbury On Making 21st-Century Minimalism in the Wilds of Maine
- A Few Questions for Fanny Allié, Brooklyn's Premiere Trash-Bag Sculptor
- What Is Object-Oriented Ontology? A Quick-and-Dirty Guide to the Philosophical Movement Sweeping the Art World
- How Art Can Add Light and Space to Your Home (No Construction Required)
- Happiness Machines: How Andrew Masullo Makes His Plucky, Pure Abstractions
- Cologne Gallerist Natalia Hug on Why German Collectors Are the Best in the World
- Have You Heard of the Lichtenstein of Iceland? An Afternoon With Erró, Nordic Painter of the "Pop Baroque"
- A Few Questions for Edgardo Aragón, Rural Mexico's Subversive Documentarian
- Collectors Susan and Michael Hort's Favorite Artworks From Armory Week 2016
- Meet the Dealers: Lagos's Omenka Gallery Continues a Family Tradition of Forward-Looking Art
- Strange Times at Spring/Break: 5 Must-See Booths at New York's Coolest Art Fair
- The (Re)Searcher: Getting to Know Armory Show Commissioned Artist Kapwani Kawanga
- I Know What You Did Last Spring/Break: Fair Founders Ambre Kelly and Andrew Gori's 9 Most Memorable Booths
- Leave Your “Annoying, Carnal” Body Behind: Gianni Jetzer on Animating a New Future for Art
- Trendsetters Kyle DeWoody and Laura Dvorkin on Redefining Hotel Art for a New Generation
- Who, or What, Is Puppies Puppies? Meet the Art World’s Most “Huh?” Viral Sensation
- The Making of an Unexpected Art Star: 5 Tales From This Year’s Outsider Art Fair
- A Few Questions for Lauren Luloff, India-Inspired Painter of Fabric and Bleach
- A Few Questions for Lucky DeBellevue, Artist, Curator, and DIY Dynamo
- The New Paint-by-Numbers? Sarah Meyohas on How She Is Manipulating the Financial Markets to Make Art
- Skateboard Diplomacy: How Skateistan Founder Oliver Percovich Is Using Kickflips to Build Communities
- Can Artists on Skateboards Change the World? A Q&A With the Skateroom’s Charles-Antoine Bodson
- The Best of Pulse Miami 2015
- The Art of the Fontainebleau: A Q&A With Jackie Soffer, Curator of the Hotel's Art Program
- Carpet Diem: Tapestries, Textiles, and Rugs Rule at NADA Miami Beach
- You Don't Know NADA: 6 Frequently Asked Questions About Miami's Coolest Fair
- Is Performa 15 for the Birds? When It Comes to Laura Lima's Fancy-Dress Chicken Party, It's a Resounding Yes
- Hank Willis Thomas on How Renee Cox, Carolee Schneemann, and Eadweard Muybridge Influenced His Approach to the Body
- Watch Jon Rafman's Ultraviolent LARPing Children's Crusade, "Sticky Drama"
- Rashid Johnson on David Hammons, Andy Goldsworthy, and His Own “Anxiety of Movement”
- Watch Ed Atkins Aestheticize the Anxiety of Image Overload in "Even Pricks"
- How to Build an Art Scene: Misako & Rosen Director Jeffrey Rosen on Why the Exhibition Space Still Matters
- Animal Architecture: A Q&A With Frieze Artist Award Winner Rachel Rose
- 6 Next-Level Gallery Websites That May Just Blow Your Mind
- “I Don’t Think We Should Be Too Serious About Art”: Neïl Beloufa on Making Images for a Post-Artist World
- "Talent Is Vastly Overrated": Billy Childish's Anti-Guide to Succeeding in the Art World
- "The Best Painters Don't Intellectualize Their Art": Katherine Bernhardt on Her New Paintings, & Why She Loves the Tropics
- EXPO VIDEO Curator Alfredo Cramerotti on the Past, Present, and Future of Experimental Film
- Can an Artist Take on the Government (and Win)? A Q&A With Trevor Paglen
- How to Understand the Pioneering Work of Trisha Baga, the New Face of Video Art
- Full-Contact Ceramics: Sculptor Brie Ruais on Wrestling Conceptual Statements From Mountains of Clay
- Watch a Canvas-Eye View of Jackson Pollock's Painting in Action
- Explore Gritty Postwar Vancouver at EXPO CHICAGO With Stan Douglas’s Interactive Art App
- Painter Jackie Saccoccio on Her Endlessly Regenerating Abstract Portraits
- Meet Azikiwe Mohammed, the Meme King of Fast Food, Jailed Rappers, & Dreamy Dolphins
- At the Seattle Art Fair, a Piece of Bona Fide Video Art History to Charm the Techies
- Why "Memory/Place" Might Be the First True Virtual-Reality Art Masterpiece
- ArtCrush Impresario Heidi Zuckerman on How to Make Art Patronage Pay Off—In Spades
- Vimeo Killed the MTV Star: Cutting-Edge Artists Take On The Music Video
- Watch Early Animations by Tadanori Yokoo, the Unknown Pop Artist of the Japanese Avant-Garde
- No Easy Answers: Shirin Neshat Portrays the Women of the Iranian Revolution in Many Shades of Grey
- The Architects Behind Stonefox on Making Home a Site for Arresting Art
- Play Porpentine Charity Heartscape's Emotional, Irreverant Computer Games
- Porn, Philosophy, & Trout Fishing: Artist Aura Rosenberg on Finding Inspiration in the Rubble of Civilization
- Glowing Whale Bones, Paintings For Frogs, and Leeches on a Wedding Cake: The Weird Worlds of Max Hooper Schneider
- How to Get Your Gallery Into Art Basel in 5 Not-So-Easy Steps
- Watch Animator Peter Millard’s Wonky, Jazz-Inflected Fruit Explosions
- Watch Artist Jen DeNike's Esoteric Takes on American Suburbia
- Agathe Snow on How 9/11 Shaped Her Career, and Why She Left Downtown New York Behind
- Do All Tweets Go to Heaven? Yes, in an Eerily Peaceful New Video Game by the Art Duo Mister Shane
- Painter Lisa Ruyter on the Catch 22 of Artist-Run Spaces, and Why Appropriation Isn't Punk Anymore
- Enter the Protean Digital World of Takeshi Murata
- Drawing Without Fear: Lauren Seiden on Radically Reshaping the Work on Paper
- A Booth-by-Booth Breakdown of the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair
- Watch and Learn: Next-Level Digital Video Hits NADA New York 2015
- High on Pots: Outlandish Ceramics Electrify Frieze New York 2015
- Watch Syrian Film Collective Abounaddara's Arresting Digital Shorts
- Watch Venice Biennale Representative Joan Jonas's Groundbreaking Video Artwork
- "We Need a New Vocabulary": Filmmaker Jonas Mekas on the Future of the Avant-Garde
- The Future Is Here, and It's a Little Scary: Watch Spain's Hologram Protests
- Experimental Film Pioneer Jonas Mekas on the Early Days of New York's Avant-Garde
- Play with Ancient Artifacts (and Avoid Arrest) With the Google Art Project’s 3-D Scans
- Watch Animator Jonathan Monaghan's Weirdly Uplifting Headless Sheep Fantasia
- Watch Yayoi Kusama's Strange, Psychedelic '60s Masterpiece
- The Art of Failing Upwards: Thomas Nozkowski on How to Succeed in Abstraction
- The Early Disruptors: 7 Masterpieces of '90s Net Art Everyone Should Know About
- Artist Paul McDevitt on Fusing Draftsmanship With the Anarchy of the Streets
- Browse the Web With Rafaël Rozendaal's Modernist Kaleidoscope
- Jacolby Satterwhite on Why Björk Is an Indispensable Role Model for Younger Artists
- The Eerily Emotive Art of Laurie Simmons
- More Indie Than Independent? 6 to See at the (un)SCENE and Spring/Break Fairs
- LAND Founder Shamim Momin on Helping Shape the New L.A. Renaissance
- Ryan Trecartin on the Past and the Future in 10 Quotes
- Brad Troemel on "the Supreme Confidence Game" and the Phenomenon of the Celebrity-Turned-Artist
- Judith Hopf on the Importance of (Occasionally) Being Stupid
- Designer Alexis Bittar on Transmuting Jewelry Into Art
- Material Art Fair's Brett Schultz on the Cutting Edge of Mexico City's Art Scene
- Ryan McNamara on Remixing Objects for the Gallery, and the Biggest Lie About Performance Art
- My Cat Could Do That: A Brief History of Animals in Contemporary Art