Cindy Sherman: Goodbye, Little Yellow Bird; or, A Cage of Gold
“It’s almost an impression of how the character sees her environment, not how we would see it — or if…
Magazine Articles
Tarek Atoui "Waters' Witness" Fridericianum / Kassel
A metallic clamor pulses across an arrangement of marble blocks, steel beams, cables, and handmade musical instruments, before a rustling…
Harold Mendez "Let us gather in a flourishing way" ICA / Los Angeles
What’s there and what’s not there? Harold Mendez’s presentation at the ICA, Los Angeles, is an exploration into the meaning…
Robert Smithson "Primordial Beginnings" Marian Goodman Gallery / Paris
Between 1957 and 1961, Robert Smithson (1938–1973) exhibited works with a stylistic affinity to Abstract Expressionism, which was then mainstream…
Raphael Hefti “Salutary Failures” Kunsthalle Basel
Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993), a morality tale about the wonders of technology at the end of the twentieth century,…
Questionnaire. Queer Correspondence: A Mail-Art Initiative by Cell Project Space, East London. A Conversation with Eliel Jones
How to become a medium: Seismic transmission with Nora Turato
I had planned to use the call to ask Nora Turato questions about typography — about the typefaces that she…
"Don't Let This Be Easy" Walker Art Center / Minneapolis
Minneapolis: the site of a deadly reckoning that recently primed the world for a new wave of civil rights activism.…
Yona Friedman®: A Case Study from Radicalism to Idiocracy
Almost a year after the death of Yona Friedman (1923–2020), we offer an excerpt from a text by François Roche…
Ian Wilson: There Was a Discussion
“No, I hadn’t heard about Ian Wilson, his life stood as an example for me, his death merely extends its…
Listen to This! Sound Art Reflections
Sound as art emerged in the counterculture 1960s as a lively, open-ended alternative away from the center. Practitioners with backgrounds…
Ecstatic Exhibitionism: Masahiro Nakagawa's "20471120"
(Episode II) NewCostume is a column by Matthew Linde exploring contemporary fashion practice. November 20, 2047: the explosive timestamp for…
Visceral Vision: James Crump on his Film Spit Earth: Who is Jordan Wolfson?
On the occasion of a screening of James Crump’s Spit Earth: Who is Jordan Wolfson? at the upcoming edition of…
De Oylem iz a Goylem and Unreliable Tales: A Conversation with Omer Fast
On the occasion of a screening of Omer Fast’s 2019 film De Oylem iz a Goylem at the upcoming edition…
The Anticipatory Role of Germano Celant
Statements about Germano Celant’s contribution to conceptual art usually limit themselves to invoking his invention of the notion of arte…
Robert Morris "The Perceiving Body" MAMC+ / Saint-Étienne Métropole
Robert Morris’s art is rooted in the corporeal: not only in its means of production — involving materials of heavy…