Martin Wong “Malicious Mischief” Camden Art Centre / London
In a poem from the 1970s, Martin Wong, in his angled scrawl, urges a “poisoned garden,” a “temple of dawn,”…
Phoebe Cripps
Isaac Julien “What Freedom is to Me” Tate Britain / London
In Harlem Renaissance writer Richard Nugent’s 1926 story “Smoke, Lilies and Jade,” the narrator remarks that it’s “funny how characters…
Carolyn Lazard “Long Take” Nottingham Contemporary
How do we experience an artwork? For most readers, and for me, our eyes receive and process it, often in…
Adelaide Cioni “Ab Ovo / On Patterns” Mimosa House / London
If Agnes Martin’s drawings and paintings are essays on “inwardness and silence,” as they have previously been described, then Adelaide…
Nikita Gale “IN A DREAM YOU CLIMB THE STAIRS” Chisenhale / London
Some whistles are like a kettle. In Nikita Gale’s Chisenhale installation of light, sound, and sculpture, something is under sustained…