Liminal Systems of Representation. A Conversation with Jordan Strafer
Over the past ten years, Jordan Strafer has developed a body of work that interrogates dysfunction within American society. Through…
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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…
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…
Gordon Matta-Clark & Pope.L “Impossible Failures” 52 Walker / New York
The concept of impossibility changes over time, reflecting larger shifts in consciousness and zeitgeist. What is probable becomes common and…
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…
Age of the Femtroll, or the Based It Girl
The reactionary, provocative, post-ironic It girl has emerged as the most influential figure on the New York art scene. Is…
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…
We’ve Shamed the Sacklers. Who’s next?
After our first protest, PAIN faced a common critique: “If the Sacklers are too dirty for museums, who isn’t?” 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,…
In Pursuit of the Masquerade. A Conversation with My Barbarian
“We were born Generation X, officially, which is embarrassing to admit but true,” says interdisciplinary artist and member of My…
Extinction and Extraction: Archival Politics in the Work of Jumana Manna
Every year when I teach my art history class deconstructing the Western tradition of modernism I start with Romanticism, anchoring…
Anne Imhof “YOUTH” Stedelijk Museum / Amsterdam
My generation confronts the anxiety of death in a new and peremptory way. I was reflecting on this as I…
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…
cameron clayborn “nothing left to be” Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwartskunst / Berlin
US artist cameron clayborn (b. 1992) made the sculptures homegrown #1 and #2 in 2021, and yet the wafer-thin structures…