Aria Dean: There, There; There’s No “There” There
In my early twenties I worked as a gallery attendant at Dia:Beacon, where I was tasked with maintaining the precise…
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Storytelling the History. A Conversation with Cole Lu
Cole Lu has home on his mind when I call at the end of January. The Brooklyn-based artist is planning…
Resilient Bodies; Enchanted Matter Attuned to Death. A Conversation with Isabelle Andriessen
Seeping, oozing, metastasizing, Isabelle Andriessen’s bodily sculptures sit in an affective space between categories. They demand to be read through…
Dominique White: Of Seas and Shoals
For Dominique White, the sea is “a huge body, a living and breathing entity, that we don’t really understand.”1 We…
Tourmaline: Black-American Mytho-Cinematic Universe
The production of the black subject is so tied to the production of photography that there is no blackness that…
God's Fertile Excrement: Tita Cicognani
Let’s dive in with “Infinite Caca” — my first encounter with Tita Cicognani’s deliriously polymorphous practice. The centerpiece of the…
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: The Song of the Land is Calling
The day-to-day reality in occupied Palestine is largely inaccessible to an international audience. It is challenging to form a deep,…
Tosh Basco: Form and Feeling
I’m on the phone with artist Tosh Basco, explaining how hard it is to write about her work. “Well, I’ve…
Wolfgang Tillmans: Multitudinal Pictures
Chance is banal. Immaterial. While it just so happened that photographer Wolfgang Tillmans was a teenager in the mid-sized West…
Even My Subconscious Is Self-Conscious: Okay Kaya
The preternaturally gifted artist, musician, model and actress Kaya Wilkins — known in the creative industry as Okay Kaya —…
A Whirlwind of Connections. A Conversation with Lafawndah
Lafawndah, sometimes known as Yasmine Dubois, is intent on holding space for growth in her music, traversing genres, and uncovering…
Plants in a Garden, Tended by Machines. A Conversation with Nora N. Khan
Andrea Bellini: As a curator and writer, you have stood out in recent years for your focus on both the…
Nightlife, Glamour, Art. DeSe Escobar
Between 2021 and 2022 I kept running into DeSe Escobar. It was always during some art event, just before the…
In the Mood for Muck. A Conversation with Geo Wyex
Geo Wyex is both hard to characterize and unmistakable when in character, on stage or elsewhere. The New York- born,…
Counter-stances and refusal. A Conversation with Deborah-Joyce Holman
One could easily describe Deborah-Joyce Holman as an “inter-” or “multidisciplinary artist,” though the term merely suggests someone who works…
Full-Circle Horror. A Conversation with James Bantone
I had followed James Bantone on Instagram long before I knew him in real life. I assumed he was an…