Anything-Post-Something. Nina Hartmann
Nina Hartmann’s work is probably post-meme and definitely post-gamebook. Remember those exciting books where you could choose your destiny? Where…
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CRY, SCREAM, DIE. Elaine Cameron-Weir
In “A WAY OF LIFE,” Elaine Cameron-Weir’s solo show staged earlier this year at Lisson in New York, the artist…
The Politics and Erotics of Receptiveness. A Conversation with Tom Burr
Gordon Hall: Can you tell me about the origin of your Torrington Project, the upcoming event, and the book project?…
On the Occasion of Absence. David L. Johnson
Typically what cannot be seen Is what we most like to see. Longing is my favorite Material for engaging (not…
I ♥ NY
Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face! Clouds of the west — sun there half an hour high…
Chiffon Thomas "Ribbon Sharp" Perrotin / Paris
Chiffon Thomas’s sculptures are a vexed dance between laws of prohibition and compulsion for transgression. For his solo show at…
“Energies” Swiss Institute / New York
A hole in the wall greets visitors to “Energies,” an international group exhibition at the Swiss Institute in New York.…
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System Failure. Maren Karlson
It’s easy to forget that painting itself is a technology, but before the arrival of photography, painting possessed the unique…
Gordon Matta-Clark
I’ll build a stairway to paradise With a new step every day I’m going to get there at any price…
(Etant-d’art pour locataire) – Conical Intersect, Paris, 1975
All earlier work used buildings neither as objects nor as art material but as uniquely cultural complexes in a…
(I), Ellipse. B. Ingrid Olson
One image, slid. Something like cleavage, crumpled, diminishes into the groin. One image, synthesized. She is hard, interstice furling interstice,…
Young Men’s Games. Matthew Barney
Matthew Barney’s latest film, Secondary (2023), builds to a single moment — a balletic reenactment of the infamous 1978 American…
Live Forever. Anicka Yi
YOU HAVE TO LET GO OF THE PAST Anicka Yi often collaborates with biologists, chemists, engineers, and other specialists. For…
Manufactured Innocence: A Roundtable with TWIST and Students from SCI-Arc. A Conversation with Ari Diamond-Topelson, Reed Donaldson, William Madsen, and Maria Kuraeva.
1996. A dimly lit table. A blacked-out television studio. The Charlie Rose Show. A talk show host and three young…
Steve McQueen “Bass” Dia:Beacon / New York
The exhibition brochure for Steve McQueen’s Bass (2024), which occupies Dia:Beacon’s 30,000-square-foot basement with sixty ceiling-mounted LED lightboxes and three…