The artistic personification of fertility has been practically unchanged since the prehistoric Venus of Willendorf: A young woman with large breasts and wide hips. Advancements in medicine and technology are quickly revising that image.

Bradley McCallum, who constitutes half of the artist duo McCallum and Tarry alongside Jacqueline Tarry, has a distinguished solo career as well. A series of paintings he created in part during a residency at the Coalition for the International Criminal Court, Weights and Measures, has been exhibited at venues around the world. Arcade Project sat down with him in his studio to discuss the history and potential future of this monumental undertaking.

Brian Andrew Whiteley is the quintessential provocateur. A visual artist and curator based in New York, his prowess lies in his performance art acumen. His multimedia artistic practice spans sculpture and new media art. Whiteley works as an investigative performance artist and is best known for his large-scale, interactive projects meant to provoke and manipulate media observations.

On a recent visit to Los Angeles, I had the opportunity to attend the opening reception for Rebecca Chamberlain’s exhibition: HOMATORIUM III Lost Horizon at Charlie James Gallery in Chinatown.

MIRE was a day-long festival of site-specific performance art organized by PULSAR Performance Projects on July 22, 2017 at Rosekill, an offshoot of Grace Exhibition Space located in Rosendale, NY. Arcade Project was in attendance and had an opportunity to speak with Tif Robinette, one of the event’s organizers and participants.

With semiannual editions in London and New York, 1:54 is the leading international art fair dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora.