89 Seconds to Midnight. Yngve Holen
“Form – it’s because there are consequences,” writes poet Lisa Robertson.[1] I came across this line late at night during one…
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Echoes in Motion: CLOCKS’. A Conversation with Mahfuz Sultan
Michael Abel: I wanted to speak with you because you’re the only person I know who engages with culture in…
Shadow Theater. Solomon Garçon 
Working across performance, installation, sound, and film, Solomon Garçon plays on the role of artist as director. He breaks the…
The Straightforward Complexity of Psyche. Paul McCarthy
Paul McCarthy’s art often challenges societal norms and expectations through absurd, provocative, and humorous imagery. Even his most disturbing works…
Square One. A conversation with Kate Spencer Stewart
The Los Angeles–based artist Kate Spencer Stewart and I video chat from our respective desks — mine is actually my…
Half-there
For a two-month span at the tail end of 2024, I returned to my childhood home to care for my…
Architectural Universality in the Age of Global Anomie. b+, a case study. With quotes from Olaf Grawert
UNIVERSALITY NOW AND HOW WE GOT PARTICULAR Threats to the security, freedom and dignity of life today from global ecological…
Gala Porras-Kim “Recollection Returns with a Soft Touch” Museum of Civilizations, Rome
Recalling, remembering, collecting, and dealing with questions of cataloging, preservation, expertise, musealization, and public presentation with a gaze and a…
Don’t Be Alive. Aki Goto
The first time I encountered Aki Goto’s work, it was received as a message from a friend during the summer…
Eros is a verb. Coco Klockner 
In the myth of Eros, the god of love and desire emerged from Chaos in the beginning of life itself…
Reality Breaks the Frame. Lenard Giller 
Lenard Giller sees his moving-image works as closer to photography than film. The camera never moves; its stasis is kinetically…
Spectral Nomenclature. Anastasia Pavlou
Oh heart, oh heart, blind like daylight — Dionne Brand [1] [1] Dionne Brand, Ossuaries (McClelland & Stewart, 2010), 34. I talk to Anastasia…
Architecture versus the Entropic City: An excerpt of a Whatsapp chat.
Scott Cohen: We are talking about the architecture of exceptionalism in the context of what you have called the “entropic city,”…
[Diary Entry – Undated, perhaps imagined]. Anna Clegg
It’s difficult to pinpoint where Anna Clegg’s paintings first appeared. Maybe it was online, or in a basement gallery in…
Lygia Clark “Retrospective” Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Mies van der Rohe’s idea for the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin was based on an earlier project for which he…
Compassionate Pessimism. Cécile B. Evans
A memory: Before reconnecting with them a few days ago in preparation for this text, I had last spoken to…