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  • We Are Gathered Here to Grieve: Salvaging, Mourning, and ‘Cargo Cult Formalism’ in New York

    by Andrew Woolbright. Features, Reviews
  • Season 4, Episode 3: Tausif Noor on “Hand in Glove”

    by Momus. Features, Podcast
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Features, Reviews

We Are Gathered Here to Grieve: Salvaging, Mourning, and ‘Cargo Cult Formalism’ in New York

By Andrew Woolbright

As New York galleries reopened after the first wave of lockdowns, I noticed a trend across a handful of exhibitions that channeled the alienation…

Features, Podcast

Season 4, Episode 3: Tausif Noor on “Hand in Glove”

By Momus

“Like writing, fisting is both a replicable skill and a rarefied art form.” This brachioproctic line begins writer Tausif Noor’s “Hand In Glove” (Artforum, 12 April…

Features, Podcast

Season 4 Episode 2: Nikki Columbus on “Guston Can Wait”

By Momus

“Let’s stop talking about Philip Guston and start talking about structural racism.” This has been critic Nikki Columbus’s refrain through the past season, issuing…

Features

“Finding My Voice When Others Would Have Kept it Down”: Introducing Indigenous Artist-Run Center, daphne

By Candice Pye

Four Indigenous artists are about to launch daphne, an Indigenous artist-run center in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. The co-founders are Hannah Claus, Nadia Myre, Skawennati, and Caroline Monnet….

Reviews

The Shadow-Self Universe of Chris Ware

By Mitch Speed

Graphic novelist Chris Ware’s most recent effort, Rusty Brown, is a life-giving maze. A massively depressing book – a 356-page monument to modern loneliness…

Features

Stringing the Net: An Interview with Small Arts Patron Annie Koyama

By Sky Goodden

In 2007, anticipating a recession that would destabilize so much, the celebrated publisher Annie Koyama began giving out small grants to artists – “quietly,”…

Podcast

Season 4 Episode 1: What Artists and Curators Do for Money

By Momus

Season 4 of Momus: The Podcast invites art critics and journalists to talk about an important piece of their writing – texts that carry…

Reviews

Wide Open Spaces: Pacifico Silano Emancipates His Gay Erotica

By Bean Gilsdorf

Pacifico Silano’s practice is based in appropriating and rephotographing the imagery in gay erotica magazines published between 1969 and the late 1980s. In less-adept…

Features, Reviews

An Insipid Blame Game: Tony Cokes and the Monotony of Art About Trump

By Rahel Aima

Over the past four decades, Tony Cokes has perfected the art of the social justice slideshow. His video essays pair appropriated text with corporate…

Features

The Untenability of the Unethical Museum

By Catherine G. Wagley

The last time I visited a museum was in early March, when I saw artist Tishan Hsu’s survey at Hammer Museum in Los Angeles….

Features, Reviews

The Anxious “I”: Walter Scott’s Autofictional Universe

By Saelan Twerdy

Walter Scott faces a dilemma that has confronted many multi-disciplinary artists, especially those who work in both contemporary art and more mass-cultural fields: being…

Reviews

Waiting to Return to the Places We Were Going: Mapping Robin Cameron’s “Memory Palace”

By Helen Lee

Robin Cameron’s exhibition Memory Palace at Franz Kaka sits on the second floor. The stairs to the second floor are just inside the glass…

Reviews

Ambera Wellmann’s Big Swing

By Kristian Vistrup Madsen

There’s been much talk of Ambera Wellmann’s show Logic of Ghosts at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, but not much talk of her paintings. For in filling…

Features

Dora García Has Many Names: The Artist on Three Works Across a Pandemic

By Juan José Santos

It’s become such a common sight, these past seasons, to visit someone over Skype and watch their form swim into view before a bookshelf….

Artnet News, Features

“Proudly Broken and Refusing to ‘Fit'”: Legacy Russell on “Glitch Feminism”

By Ben Davis

Legacy Russell doesn’t do things IRL. Throughout her writing, you’ll find instead the term “AFK” (Away From Keyboard). As the mobile internet became ubiquitous in…

Features

In the Studio with Didier William: “The Last Six Months Have Deeply Affected my Practice. I Came Back to the Body”

By Jason Stopa

I met Didier William in the fall of 2018, when he came to Pratt Institute to critique our undergraduate students. Didier and I talked…

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