Seeking a More Intimate Fair with /edition’s Paul Butler
Toronto’s /edition art-book fair arrives, in its sophomore year, at an energizing time for art publishing. The event drew over 8,000 visitors last year…
Read MoreToronto’s /edition art-book fair arrives, in its sophomore year, at an energizing time for art publishing. The event drew over 8,000 visitors last year…
Read MoreWhen the Oxford English Dictionary announced that its 2016 Word of the Year was post-truth, the understanding was that the political upheavals of the…
Read MoreIt’s more than working together. “Collaboration” has enjoyed a distinct currency in the twenty-first century as a buzzword that sailed from the open-office playgrounds…
Read MoreArtists tasked with filling the US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale have often poked at its resemblance to Monticello, the plantation designed by the…
Read MoreI confess to experiencing regular doubt, lately, about what art criticism can contribute to the fray when the conversations we need to be having,…
Read MoreThis year’s spate of artworld controversies surrounding cultural appropriation and the ethics of representation suggests that we should sharpen our vocabulary, and find precise…
Read MoreAgainst this summer’s alignment of Documenta 14, the Venice Biennale, and Skulptur Projekte Münster, the first edition of the Desert X biennial seemed to…
Read MoreIn advance of Missing, French conceptual artist Sophie Calle’s first major retrospective in the United States, both New York Times Magazine and the Guardian…
Read MoreDon’t fuck the curator. Or the artist, the gallerist, the writer, or their editor. Unless, of course, you really want to. And, it almost…
Read MoreIn April, I wrote a review of an exhibition at the Hammer Museum at UCLA: “Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World.” I…
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