On the Violent Absurdity of Borders: Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s 45th Parallel
In the year 2000, not long after the Good Friday peace agreement,1 the Irish artist John Byrne opened the Border…
Frank Wasser
Is Art Rooted in Life? Documenta, Now
Since its initiation by the architect and painter Arnold Bode in 1955, Documenta has pushed the boundaries of curatorial frameworks…
A Conversation with Alice Rekab about “Family Lines” at Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin
Enlarged images from books, personal photographs, precarious structures in various states, platforms, knotted clay ropes, an array of meshed objects…
Artists at Risk: A Conversation with Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen
Artists at Risk (AR) is a non-profit organization at the intersection of human rights and the arts, with a mandate…
What Will You Do with the Days? An Interview with Sam Keogh
Creased, flattened-out drawings, loose cuttings, intricately labored paintings, slimy melted plastic, industrial-size tunneling machines, the flaccid limbs of figurative characters,…