Impossible Thinking. A Conversation with Gracie Hadland
When I talk to Megan Plunkett, she’s driving across the American West. I imagine her in cheap motels, greasy spoon…
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Things End, People Forget
In 2022, I was invited by Frieze’s director, Christine Messineo, to curate a series of artists’ projects, installations, performances, and…
Olivia Erlanger “If Today Were Tomorrow” Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Olivia Erlanger’s exhibition “If Today Were Tomorrow” starts in space. Space as in vantage point. Space as in site, both…
Ass to Mouth Forever! A Conversation with Bárbara Sánchez-Kane
Engineering school in Mexico, tailoring school in Florence, an apprenticeship with fashion designer Bernhard Willhelm in California, followed by the…
Pierre Huyghe “Liminal” Punta della Dogana / Venice
There’s an enigmatic peculiarity to Pierre Huyghe’s work, a riddle one can easily get lost in and miss the more…
The Room is the City
London April 2024 This room is the city. Before that, the ward was the city. The bedcovers mass, the sun…
Green Pill: Brook Hsu
“Everything is fiction,” Brook Hsu has said, “but fiction is also one of the most powerful things for us to…
Lutz Bacher: What is X?
A profile of Lutz Bacher requires reimagining what a profile is, which is just fine because her art asks similar…
As a Stranger Give it Welcome. A Conversation with Amanda Ziemele
“Either this is madness, or it is hell.” “It is neither,” calmly replied the voice of the Sphere, “it is…
Nancy Holt “Circles of Light” Gropius Bau / Berlin
Is Nancy Holt primarily a land artist? The notion of Land art conjures a time generations ago when landscape…
Whitney Biennial 2024 “Even Better Than the Real Thing” Whitney Museum of American Art / New York
Curating the Whitney Biennial is a fool’s errand by design. A snapshot of contemporary American art — a wide tent…
An Illegible World. Sung Tieu
Sung Tieu has a studio in a leafy courtyard in Berlin’s Wedding district, where an assistant is busy scrubbing old…
Aki Sasamoto “Sounding Lines” Para Site / Hong Kong
To enter Aki Sasamoto’s exhibition “Sounding Lines” at Para Site, you need a half-minute journey to the 22nd floor. You…
Present Tense: Win McCarthy
“Now” is already too late and, in its lateness, a lie: the utterance of now is a now no longer.…
MY HAND, MY HEART, MY ART. A Conversation with Judy Chicago
I get a call from Judy Chicago’s studio manager while I’m washing the dishes in my flat. She asks if…
Before We Dreamt in Halves: 60th Venice Biennale
Today, Mother died. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure. — The Stranger, Albert Camus I’m not always sure…