Lauren Cornell, the Curator of this year’s New Museum Triennial, is interviewed in Dazed this week, reflecting on her origins in experimental film, her work with Rhizome, and her work in addressing gender and sexuality as a curator.  “I think it seems especially hard or frustrating to come up as a young artist now in an art world that seems to think of itself as ‘over’ inequality, while consistently rewarding white men more than anyone else,” she says.  “In this context, it’s important to create spaces for ongoing inequalities to be named and dealt with constructively.” (more…)

In homage to the late Cornell astronomy professor Carl Sagan, artist Leo Villareal has installed a massive light work at the Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca, New York.  Titled Cosmos, the work uses 12,000 LED lights to emit complex patterns of shimmering light.  (more…)