Skin, Cloth, Paper, Snow. A Conversation with Ruoru Mou
Ruoru Mou’s practice folds together industry, ownership, and inheritance. Working across sculpture and installation, she manipulates factory debris and fragments…
Magazine Articles
On Language and Kitsch. Tasneem Sarkez
It feels appropriate to approach Tasneem Sarkez’s work through the seed of language. The word, as a manifold concept, laces…
Zora Sicher, Geography
“Intimacy builds worlds; it creates spaces and usurps places meant for other kinds of relation,” wrote the late theorist Lauren…
Lutz Bacher, “Burning the Days “ / Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
How do you put a finger on Lutz Bacher? Contemplating this, I walked toward Astrup Fearnley through a pocket of…
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, “Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom” / Nottingham Contemporary
On Monday, October 13, 2025, just a few days after I visited Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s multimedia installation Prisoners…
How To Play It. A Conversation with alfatih
alfatih doesn’t really do interviews. So, our conversation happened as it could. Talking to alfatih these days means organizing a…
Eleanor Antin, “A Retrospective” Mudam, Luxembourg
Eleanor Antin’s Blood of a Poet Box (1965–68) assembles, quite literally, the blood of a hundred poets: samples on glass…
SOFT-POWER-MANIA. A Conversation with Tommy Xie
To speak of vulnerability as soft power is to encounter its double. Hidden agency, bare desire, and quiet possession take…
89 Seconds to Midnight. Yngve Holen
“Form – it’s because there are consequences,” writes poet Lisa Robertson.[1] I came across this line late at night during one…
Echoes in Motion: CLOCKS’. A Conversation with Mahfuz Sultan
Michael Abel: I wanted to speak with you because you’re the only person I know who engages with culture in…
Shadow Theater. Solomon Garçon 
Working across performance, installation, sound, and film, Solomon Garçon plays on the role of artist as director. He breaks the…
The Straightforward Complexity of Psyche. Paul McCarthy
Paul McCarthy’s art often challenges societal norms and expectations through absurd, provocative, and humorous imagery. Even his most disturbing works…
Square One. A conversation with Kate Spencer Stewart
The Los Angeles–based artist Kate Spencer Stewart and I video chat from our respective desks — mine is actually my…
Half-there
For a two-month span at the tail end of 2024, I returned to my childhood home to care for my…
Architectural Universality in the Age of Global Anomie. b+, a case study. With quotes from Olaf Grawert
UNIVERSALITY NOW AND HOW WE GOT PARTICULAR Threats to the security, freedom and dignity of life today from global ecological…
Gala Porras-Kim "Recollection Returns with a Soft Touch" Museum of Civilizations, Rome
Recalling, remembering, collecting, and dealing with questions of cataloging, preservation, expertise, musealization, and public presentation with a gaze and a…