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…
Zora Sicher, Geography
“Intimacy builds worlds; it creates spaces and usurps places meant for other kinds of relation,” wrote the late theorist Lauren…
Eric N. Mack “Fishers of Men” American Academy of Arts and Letters / New York
Upon entering the spacious North Gallery in the esteemed classicist building of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, one…
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…
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