The (In)Animate World of Rebecca Horn

Between 1968 and 1972, German artist Rebecca Horn created a series of performances titled “Personal Art.” Not unlike Joseph Beuys,…
Between 1968 and 1972, German artist Rebecca Horn created a series of performances titled “Personal Art.” Not unlike Joseph Beuys,…
The work of Berlin-based artist Jimmy Robert (b. Guadeloupe (FR) 1975) is situated in the interstices between the art object,…
At the center of Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’s Until a thousand roses bloom (with Warsaw in the background) (2018) are two plots…
As art institutions adopt performance-based practices, artists, curators, and archivists are faced with new considerations about how to classify and…
The event-oriented neo-avant-gardes of the 1950s and ’60s were very much driven by an oppositional stance to the conventions of…
Over the past decade, much has been written about the rise of performance in contemporary art’s institutions, with gargantuan architectures…
“We come from a heavily colonized country where they adopted Christianity. I saw the way [my grandmother] navigated her relationship…
Combining an impressive range of imagery drawn from YouTube, reality television, music videos, cartoons, documentary footage, and self-crafted animations, the…
Candice Breitz says she hasn’t slept all week. Yet, as I visit the artist in her studio in a long-gentrified…
In her legendary 1991 essay “The Cyborg Manifesto,” Donna Haraway described a world that many of us then dismissed as…
The right to look or the right to look away? Who chooses to look and who chooses to look away?…
Composing Home In this time when we humans have become a geologic force, most of us live in increasingly…
The Motagua Fault is an active, moving fault that extends across Guatemala and is part of the tectonic boundary between…
Intensifying racisms and growing ethno-nationalisms require political answers. We know what has to happen: negotiations, treaties, and policies will have…
For centuries, making art has meant opening windows where there are no walls; artworks are open windows “through which history…
A new generation of artists is exploring the intrinsic qualities of materials “informed” by the activities of humanity, and bearing…