SoiL Thornton: Vug Culturing, Swallet Thinking
Again: does productivity know what it’s named, maybe it calls itself identity?1 That spinning coin, productivity and identity, ever flickering.…
Again: does productivity know what it’s named, maybe it calls itself identity?1 That spinning coin, productivity and identity, ever flickering.…
Precious Okoyomon breathes new life into their installation topographies with the solo exhibition “the sun eats her children” at Sant’Andrea…
In April of this year, the Hammer Museum expanded its real-estate footprint to include a former City National Bank at…
The trouble with theory in the encounter of art is a serious one. Exegesis has in many cases taken up…
Diary entry from a lion in the back of a wardrobe, May 10, 2023: It’s been a long day, entre-nous.…
Just as I was walking across the sloping exterior of the Orange County Museum of Art, I remembered that next…
The contradiction of conceptual art is that it remained in many ways modernist. Though critical of modernism’s formalism and its…
“Curator” is a pretty new word. It has made its way into dictionaries over the past few decades, and we…
Dearest Carol, I hope this finds you very well today. It’s a Thursday, and although I got up very early…
My lone star is dead — and my bespangled lute / Bears the black sun of Melancholia. — Gérard de…
On April 2, 2022, Madonna posted a TikTok. In it, she rightfully stars, clad in a black mesh top with…
In a poem from the 1970s, Martin Wong, in his angled scrawl, urges a “poisoned garden,” a “temple of dawn,”…
Ligia Lewis is a choreographer, performer, and director whose work is characterized by an eclectic, often dissonant fusion of elements.…
It might be unusual to begin a review by quoting a philosopher who lived some 2,600 years ago, but I…
Described as “the trend to end all trends,” #corecore was a paradoxical TikTok hashtag that briefly garnered mainstream attention at…
In Harlem Renaissance writer Richard Nugent’s 1926 story “Smoke, Lilies and Jade,” the narrator remarks that it’s “funny how characters…