Arenas of Freedom
“Time is more than a container; time participates.” —Susan Rethorst, A Choreographic Mind I often enter retrospectives with a certain girding of the…
Claudia La Rocco
Esteemed critic and writer Claudia La Rocco speaks to Lauren Wetmore about being a “dance partisan” and how “language can nail things down in…
Swelling Time: Sam Tam Ham Probes the Prime Meridian
Like most other instruments of empire used to chart our world, the international prime meridian is an invisible, regnant force. A product of colonial…
Picturing Disease and Desire
Across fourteen photographs, clothes strewn in a moment of passion transfigure into lasting compositions. Empty shoes perch and keel over, bra straps lie tangled,…
Sinister and Playful: Anne Duk Hee Jordan at Canal Projects
Snailing (Slippy slimy slug slut), the first solo institutional show in New York by Anne Duk Hee Jordan, features an immersive installation that explores…
Niela Orr
Niela Orr is a culture writer and editor who has published in The Baffler, The Believer, and The Organist, among others. Since 2022 she…
Kelly Lycan’s Objects in Waiting
Kelly Lycan is a photo-based installation artist who pulls apart our expectations of the photograph. Like a back door or a sprung leak, her…
Spaces of Doubt: Ursula Biemann at MUAC
Ursula Biemann has been challenging, and excavating, how knowledge is produced for thirty years now, but in the past decade she has turned her…
Dempsey Bob is Waking Up
A camera pans down slowly, following the progression of a fast-flowing waterfall in the Pacific Northwest. The first minute of A Wolf’s Way: Dempsey…
Joshua Schwebel
Joshua Schwebel speaks to long-time collaborator Lauren Wetmore about their shared interest in closing the gap between how art is discursively framed and what it…
Divya Mehra, Stirring and Whirring Colonialism’s Ghosts
The whirring motor sound emanates from an unusual contraption. A linear aluminum-rail system is attached to the wall, a vertical glint of silver adrift…
On Not Lasting: Diaries, Loss, and the Art of Eva Hesse
The German American artist Eva Hesse kept meticulous diaries throughout the late sixties and seventies that account for both her personal and professional anxieties,…
Unplugged Games: Poetry as Resistance in Yanko González Cangas
Did you ever cheat on a test when you were in school? I didn’t. I was afraid of getting caught and lacked the ingenuity…
Invasion from Mars: On the Charged Personae of Shelly Mars
Shelly Mars has always been interested in what we should not talk about, and as a result, she has for the past forty years…
Carolina A. Miranda
Carolina A. Miranda, a longtime L.A. Times staff culture writer who has recently returned to the wilds of freelance, speaks to Sky Goodden about…
Daddy Says: Ed Ruscha in Other Words
Ed Ruscha is a great American art daddy, such that he has been called “the deadpan laureate of American art,” “the great American Pop…