In the Cut. Frida Orupabo
Frida Orupabo’s work is uncompromisingly and unapologetically confrontational. Sifting through images in colonial archives, magazines, Tumblr, eBay, Renaissance paintings, B…
Magazine Articles
Edgeplays. Stanislava Kovalčíková
St. Sebastian is a kinky pussyboy, or a honeytrap. Spank me, Blasphemy! Beamed into a bucolic, peachy saturnalia, his cock-ringed,…
Of Shadows. Sandra Mujinga
Time as a passage. History as landscaping. Society as malaise. Bodies as construction sites. Language as technology. Nature as not…
Katharina Grosse “Shifting the Stars” Centre Pompidou-Metz
The etymology of the verb “desire” refers to the disappearance of a star from human sight — desidere in Latin.…
SCAD Museum: Disrupting the White Cube
At the Savannah College of Art and Design’s Museum of Art, curators will agree that the Pamela Elaine Poetter Gallery…
Very Public, Riyadh. A Conversation with Alaa Tarabzouni and Fahad Bin Naif
It’s about 45ºC on the street. I’m standing between a hardware store and a biryani restaurant, ringing a doorbell amid…
Artificial Centuries: Hate and the City in Gary Indiana’s Criticism
Originally published in Flash Art International n. 324, February–March 2019 The shuttering of the Village Voice in August was met…
Echoes in the Garden: Marina Xenofontos
Other echoes Inhabit the garden. Shall we follow? — T. S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton” (1936) A beat bounces off a…
“Arcadia” Bally Foundation / Lugano
“For one scant day he had loved himself, felt himself to be unified and whole, not split into hostile parts;…
Same is More: Parisian Architecture à l’identique
For a century, architecture has been a crippled art — every building that has been built proves it; formal combinations…
Fantasies of Value: Sara Cwynar
Like most disasters, it’s said the day was cloudless. It’s June 11, 1955, at 6:25 p.m. at the 24 Hours…
Bruce Graham Residence: A Matter of Proportion
I should start out by stating that I have never been to Bruce Graham’s house. I hadn’t heard of it…
Mortal Machines: Mire Lee
Deep down, bodies are messy. Really messy. Filthy, sweaty, and grimy. All the soaps, creams, pastes, and perfumes can scrub…
Glory Whole. Jack O’Brien
Jack O’Brien is a master of the tease. Though culturally laden with sexual connotations, its potency is driven less by…
A NEW (ART) WORLD
We are living in surreal times. A lot of unimaginable things have happened over the past eight months, and we…
John Winter House: North London Gothic
Early on a recent spring morning, I tucked my trouser legs into my socks, hopped on my bicycle, and started…