Nick Mauss’s Continental Divide
Nick Mauss is a fan of verre eglomisé, or “distressed hand-gilded mirror,” a phrase that sounds very European, and very gay. The artist takes…
Read MoreNick Mauss is a fan of verre eglomisé, or “distressed hand-gilded mirror,” a phrase that sounds very European, and very gay. The artist takes…
Read MoreThree days before the opening of the Met Costume Institute’s Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, the Museum held its annual gala. Those…
Read MoreThree months ago, I bought a CD of poetry from Johnny Marceland, a sixty-year-old Dene man who lives in my hometown of Saskatoon. Throughout…
Read MoreHarald Szeemann organized a show called Friends and Their Friends in 1969, his last year as chief curator at the Kunsthalle Bern. Selected artists…
Read MoreIn his recent polemic Against the Anthropocene, art historian T. J. Demos calls for a shift in the language we use to think through…
Read MoreCelebrity is truly the public health crisis we deserve. I recently watched a clip of pop star Katy Perry on a Japanese game show,…
Read More1 DO ONE THING AT A TIME The story goes that the Swiss artist duo Peter Fischli & David Weiss found this list…
Read More“If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills – then my…
Read MoreMy friends in Detroit are obsessed with list-making. They’ve all been on the hunt for personalized license plates of late, exclaiming “BB Benz” or…
Read MoreThere is a small historical irony in the topic of Hal Foster’s lecture for the 67th A.W. Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of…
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