Perfectly Imperfect: On Casa Susanna and Its Tender, Queer Entanglements
I got lost several times on my way to Casa Susanna, the exhibition I had set out to write about. It was a sticky…
Dare to Have Fun: Pixy Liao Plays with Gendered Power at the Art Institute of Chicago
“A win-win situation is when both Pixy and Moro benefit from each other at the same time,” reads one entry in artist Pixy Liao’s…
Call from Inside the House: Christina Forrer at Parker Gallery
The feeling arrived as a sense of wanting to get away. Then I thought I was too hot, my frequent complaint, never voiced, that…
Learning to Move Differently: Nadia Myre at the National Gallery of Canada
As I crossed the threshold into the dimly lit opening gallery that introduced Nadia Myre’s exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada, I was…
Fellow Members of an Unfolding Constellation: Leilah Babirye at the de Young
Leilah Babirye’s first solo museum show, We Have a History, at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, is comprised of twelve large-scale sculptures…
Lucy Sante
Lucy Sante joins us for the finale of Season 8. The Belgian-born American critic, writer, and artist talks about her lifelong textual engagement with…
Extraordinary Living Begins Here: Artists Negotiate Large-Scale Infrastructure
Last year, from my parents’ windows in Penang, Malaysia, a dark arm of sand appeared on the surface of the water. It was small…
Risking Fear: Hamad Butt at Whitechapel Gallery
In a large room, yellow glass bulbs were suspended from the ceiling, arranged like pendulums in a Newton’s cradle, lingering precariously about a foot…
The Technologies of Art and War: Lucy Raven at Vancouver Art Gallery
Recently, I’ve been enjoying art that disappears. Art that combusts, implodes, melts, burns; that’s what I’m after. Google Gustav Metzger’s singed, barely-there canvases, for…
What a Book Can Do: On Editing Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason’s Monographs
For the past weeks, I’ve kept a new monograph on the artist Emily Mason on my glass coffee table, observing the sea of its…
Myth and Reality Converge: Qiu Anxiong and Howie Tsui at Richmond Art Gallery
Entering The Roaming Peach Blossom Spring, Qiu Anxiong and Howie Tsui’s two-person exhibition at the Richmond Art Gallery, British Columbia, felt like stepping into…
The All-Seeing Eyes of Carol Rama
During the reign of Benito Mussolini, an enormous carved relief of the dictator’s head loomed over the streets of Rome, his downcast gaze surveilling…
Andrii Ushytskyi
In the season’s penultimate episode, we feature Andrii Ushytskyi, a Kyiv-based writer, dancer, and co-editor of Solomiya, an independent magazine founded in response to…
“Staying with the Trouble” at the Helsinki Biennial: Challenges of Environmental Curating
In the Helsinki archipelago, as the days stretched toward the midsummer sun, birds were my consistent companions. Gulls circled overhead as I rode the…
Jeffrey Gibson Saves America
Premiering at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024 before opening this summer at the Broad in Tovaangar (Los Angeles), Jeffrey Gibson’s exhibition the space…
Programming the Diaspora: On How the Moving Image Shapes the Present
“Seeking liberation is rebellious.” —Katherine McKittrick, Dear Science and Other Stories Last summer, I was on the train with the artist and curator…