Interrupting Business as Usual: A Close Reading of MoMA’s Muslim Ban Intervention
New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) recently rehung its prized Modern galleries, swapping out works by greats like Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso for…
Read MoreNew York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) recently rehung its prized Modern galleries, swapping out works by greats like Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso for…
Read MoreI used to have a student called Sarah Kench. Older than her peers, she was already in her 30s when she started at Syracuse…
Read MoreWhat’s at stake – aesthetically and politically – when we imagine the drone as an emblem for contemporary society? Consider the range of artistic…
Read MoreA common theme haunts descriptions of the Irish artist Brian O’Doherty; to many, he is a protean ghost, transcendent of categories and heedless of…
Read MoreIt’s intimidating to absorb an institutional exhibition that spans a decade of a nation’s art scene, especially as an outsider. So a natural point…
Read MoreAs the spectacle of the 2016 United States presidential elections played out over the summer, Mexico hosted a surreal visit by a well-known, polarizing…
Read MoreAfter Trump was elected, the first photo I posted to Instagram was a view of glass baubles foregrounding yellow leaves and blue sky between…
Read MoreIn movement study of a standard North American strip-search procedure, Francisco-Fernando Granados gambols through a codified gestural sequence: “empty pockets … remove clothing ……
Read MoreThe Montreal Museum of Fine Arts can’t send me Robert Mapplethorpe’s most explicit and notorious photographs, despite exhibiting them. It doesn’t have the copyright…
Read MoreIs there a color more indexical of melancholy than blue-grey? It is the color of fog, the color of nature suffused with an intelligence;…
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