Authentically Vaginal: The Life Force of Vaginal Davis at PS1
Writer, performer, visual artist, curator, filmmaker, musician. A queer icon, “drag terrorist,” and grand madame of the queercore punk movement. A Blacktress, the doyenne…
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Go on Without Me: Summer Kim Lee and TJ Shin on Absenteeism, Endlessness, and Recursion
In my book, Spoiled, I engage with a group of contemporary Asian American artists who expose and unravel the expectation that their work should…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Love Letter Incinerators: Martin Wong’s Prison Paintings
“We know how much of sexuality there is in all cruelties, tortures, beatings.” —Frantz Fanon “Abolition requires we change one thing: everything.” —Ruth Wilson Gilmore I…
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Jack Whitten, Human Xerox Machine
Tilt your ear to a Jack Whitten painting and you might hear music. “You gotta be able to think like John Coltrane to do…
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“I Always Wanted to Participate”: In Conversation with Vijay Masharani
At three intervals throughout Vijay Masharani’s eighteen-minute video Good Attack (2021), the camera fixates on a sign hanging in a pet store above the…
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A Note on Omission: Navigating Institutional Censorship and the Need for Repair
When I used the term “Muslim body” in my curatorial note* for an exhibition in New Delhi last year, I did not anticipate the…
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