Sanford Biggers, installation view, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, September 8–December 30, 2018. Photo: Dusty Kessler.
Sanford Biggers, installation view, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, September 8–December 30, 2018. Photo: Dusty Kessler.

Art at Home: Code Quilting

Sanford Biggers’s work has long focused on African and African American material culture and history. Biggers’s interest in quilting is rooted in the rich tradition of African American quilting, especially those produced by the women of Gee’s Bend—a small, isolated Black community in Alabama. Although each quilter has…

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Tim Youd prepares for <em>The Tunnel</em> in his LA garage. Courtesy the artist.
Tim Youd prepares for The Tunnel in his LA garage. Courtesy the artist.

Artist Notes from a Pandemic: Tim Youd

Tim Youd knows what he’ll be doing for the next month of COVID. “For me,” he says from his Los Angeles home, “it’s a compulsion to make art, and I’m very grateful to have a chance to devote myself to my compulsion—re-typing one novel for a month.”

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