Brook Hsu “The Barcelona Pavilion” Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler/ Berlin
Brook Hsu’s “The Barcelona Pavilion” at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler begins with a paradox: a building conceived as an emblem of permanence that…
Magazine Articles
The Great Escape from Girlhood: Visual Essay by Bella Newman
I texted photographer Bella Newman, “I think we get lost in the girlhood of it all.” She texted back, “You hit the…
Jester House: Fire and Chaos
Architecture continues to reject its true sentiment. It attempts to act as a savior through the use of modernity, as can be seen in…
wet flicks of sound. Jenna Sutela
Like an owner that begins to resemble their dog, we humans have grown closer to our technologically saturated environments. What…
“Body Fragment” The Power Station/ Dallas
On the radio recently, I heard news of an Israeli bombing of an apartment building in Beirut that killed everyone…
In Plain Sight
At its junction with the 10 and the 5 freeways on the southern edge of Boyle Heights, the 101 freeway…
“In Minor Keys” 61st Venice Biennale
Merde. This is the first thought that takes shape in my head once I’ve acclimatized to the mammoth undertaking that I’ve just agreed to. Koyo…
Portrait of Matter: Kaare Ruud
Kaare Ruud’s artistic practice unfolds within interiors and their overlooked margins, where disparate belongings accumulate without clear hierarchies. These materials resist clear interpretive…
Role-Casting in the Uncanny Valley. Adam Gordon
“The door of a house was just opened after a month. All of the windows are closed and the plastic blinds are pulled down.…
Margins as Method: Visual Essay by Cairo Dipika
To Cairo Dipika, Jessica Canje and Isha Dipika Walia, photography is both a site of joyful, unadulterated experimentation and a…
There Is No Separation. In Conversation with Alice Maher
Alice Maher is one of several Irish artists exhibiting at the 61st Venice Biennale. Maher appears in “In Minor Keys,”…
After You. Roni Horn
I. It is easy to start with the eyes. My first encounter with the work of Roni Horn involved an…
Plastic Visions. Tony Chrenka
As the first patents for industrial applications of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) were filed with the US Patent Office in the…
Let It Work If It Works. In Conversation with Rose Wylie
David Kohn: We’re here in your studio where you’ve been working for almost sixty years. The paintings are all gone…
Blank Spaces. Sung Tieu
Sung Tieu’s installations often appear austere; cold, manufactured surfaces reject the gaze, and the work assumes an almost passive-aggressive bureaucratic…
Franco Mazzucchelli, Champ Lacombe / Biarritz
On April 25 we commemorated Italy’s liberation from more than twenty years of fascism and, on May 1, the struggles…