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.…
Anti-Composition BBM
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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…
Live Forever. Anicka Yi
YOU HAVE TO LET GO OF THE PAST Anicka Yi often collaborates with biologists, chemists, engineers, and other specialists. For…
Manufactured Innocence: A Roundtable with TWIST and Students from SCI-Arc. A Conversation with Ari Diamond-Topelson, Reed Donaldson, William Madsen, and Maria Kuraeva.
1996. A dimly lit table. A blacked-out television studio. The Charlie Rose Show. A talk show host and three young…
Steve McQueen “Bass” Dia:Beacon / New York
The exhibition brochure for Steve McQueen’s Bass (2024), which occupies Dia:Beacon’s 30,000-square-foot basement with sixty ceiling-mounted LED lightboxes and three…
Between Jurassic Cocoons and Dry-Aged Anal Beads. Eva Fàbregas
A colony of massive, spherical forms infiltrates the panopticon architecture of M|A|C Mataró, a former prison turned art museum…
Hopkins House: Notes on HT Architecture
High Stakes Michael Hopkins, together with his wife Patty, designed a steel, aluminum, and glass house. Housing the practice and…
Dana Schutz “The Island” The George Economou Collection / Athens
I will start with a confession: I once bumped into Dana Schutz in the center of Athens on one of…