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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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…
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…
[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…
Peter Fischli “People Planet Profit” LUMA Arles
“People Planet Profit” brings together several groups of works from the past decade, which Peter Fischli has combined into a…
“Magic Realism: Imagining Natural Dis/order" WIELS, Brussels
“Magical Realism: Imagining Natural Dis/order” — which reconsiders our relationship to the planet at a time of climate emergency —…
Seoul: Glitch City
Plans are always copy-pasted. There is no planning, no imagination. Seoul is not built; it is generated through calculation. Buildings…