“WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the digital age” Centre Pompidou - Metz
In Paul Verhoeven’s film Elle (2016), the main character, played by Isabelle Huppert, runs a gaming company. At a meeting,…
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Rhea Dillon: Viewing Altered Grounds
Rhea Dillon is an artist whose work spans video, painting, sculpture, writing, live performance, and even olfaction. I first met…
WangShui: Between Worlds
What does it mean to live comfortably between worlds? Adaptation does not always guarantee success. Think of recalibrating any timeworn…
Isa Genzken “75/75” Neue Nationalgalerie / Berlin
Don’t let the bizarrely vague introductory wall text by curators Klaus Biesenbach and Lisa Botti, which describes Isa Genzken as…
“OUT OF THE BOX – 20 Years Schaulager” Schaulager / Basel
As elegantly simple — and perhaps quintessentially Swiss — a premise to an exhibition as one is likely to encounter:…
SoiL Thornton: Vug Culturing, Swallet Thinking
Again: does productivity know what it’s named, maybe it calls itself identity?1 That spinning coin, productivity and identity, ever flickering.…
Parabolical Apocalypses. A conversation with Precious Okoyomon
Precious Okoyomon breathes new life into their installation topographies with the solo exhibition “the sun eats her children” at Sant’Andrea…
Rita McBride “Particulates” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
In April of this year, the Hammer Museum expanded its real-estate footprint to include a former City National Bank at…
Nikita Gale: The Psychology of Ruins
The trouble with theory in the encounter of art is a serious one. Exegesis has in many cases taken up…
Issy Wood: Blue of Noon
Diary entry from a lion in the back of a wardrobe, May 10, 2023: It’s been a long day, entre-nous.…
Yu Ji “A Guest, A Host, A Ghost” Orange County Museum of Art / Costa Mesa
Just as I was walking across the sloping exterior of the Orange County Museum of Art, I remembered that next…
Conceptual Art
The contradiction of conceptual art is that it remained in many ways modernist. Though critical of modernism’s formalism and its…
Ginny on Frederick, London. A Conversation with Freddie Powell
“Curator” is a pretty new word. It has made its way into dictionaries over the past few decades, and we…
Some Days, Some Days
Dearest Carol, I hope this finds you very well today. It’s a Thursday, and although I got up very early…
Mire Lee “Black Sun” New Museum / New York
My lone star is dead — and my bespangled lute / Bears the black sun of Melancholia. — Gérard de…
We, the Brand Evangelists of POSTPOSTPOST
On April 2, 2022, Madonna posted a TikTok. In it, she rightfully stars, clad in a black mesh top with…