On the Occasion of Absence. David L. Johnson
Typically what cannot be seen Is what we most like to see. Longing is my favorite Material for engaging (not…
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I ♥ NY
Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face! Clouds of the west — sun there half an hour high…
Chiffon Thomas "Ribbon Sharp" Perrotin / Paris
Chiffon Thomas’s sculptures are a vexed dance between laws of prohibition and compulsion for transgression. For his solo show at…
“Energies” Swiss Institute / New York
A hole in the wall greets visitors to “Energies,” an international group exhibition at the Swiss Institute in New York.…
System Failure. Maren Karlson
It’s easy to forget that painting itself is a technology, but before the arrival of photography, painting possessed the unique…
Gordon Matta-Clark
I’ll build a stairway to paradise With a new step every day I’m going to get there at any price…
(Etant-d’art pour locataire) – Conical Intersect, Paris, 1975
All earlier work used buildings neither as objects nor as art material but as uniquely cultural complexes in a…
(I), Ellipse. B. Ingrid Olson
One image, slid. Something like cleavage, crumpled, diminishes into the groin. One image, synthesized. She is hard, interstice furling interstice,…
Young Men’s Games. Matthew Barney
Matthew Barney’s latest film, Secondary (2023), builds to a single moment — a balletic reenactment of the infamous 1978 American…