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Features, Reviews

Working It

By Kate Wolf

In an interview about her 2003 performance Untitled, in which she had sex with an art collector on camera for a sum initially reported…

Features

Evidence of Things Seen*: Capture and Control in India

By Arushi Vats

I remember the day I first attempted to get my Aadhaar identification card made ten years ago. Every resident in my housing complex had…

Features, Reviews

Bad Reviews

By Elisabeth Nicula

I took a community-college workshop five years ago with Kirk Stoller, an artist whose work I could look at forever. Kirk used carpentry tailings…

Features

Momus & Forge Project Announce Participants of “Estuaries”

By Momus

Forge Project and Momus are pleased to announce the participants in Estuaries: An International Indigenous Art Criticism Residency, which will be led by Dr. Léuli Eshrāghi (Sāmoa)…

Features

Finding One Another in Misrecognition: Summer Kim Lee Meets Catalina Ouyang

By Summer Kim Lee and Catalina Ouyang

While I had followed their work for some time, I did not meet Catalina Ouyang until last fall, at a symposium at Stanford University…

Reviews

Azza El Siddique Summons Life Beyond Death

By Chelsea Rozansky

Sometimes called an alchemist, Azza El Siddique treats the act of making as just the beginning of a process that the artwork carries on….

Features, Reviews

Solitary: Collective Authorship and its Discontents

By Jenny Wu

In Hongcheon, a county two hours east of Seoul, sits a wellness center designed to resemble a prison. Run by an organization named Happitory,…

Sky Goodden

By Momus

To launch our sixth season, Lauren Wetmore interviews Sky Goodden on a book that has recently got her all “twirled up.” They discuss Art…

Reviews

The New World Looks Like the Old One: DYOR at Kunsthalle Zürich

By Philipp Hindahl

A few years ago, I saw the same graffiti tag in Berlin and later in Athens: “Take acid, buy crypto,” it read, as if…

Reviews

Never Risky: Seeking New Life at the Singapore Biennale

By Andrew Russeth

On a sweltering afternoon in January, after a short, bouncy, and very pleasant ride aboard a tiny pocket trawler, I found myself on Lazarus…

Reviews

The Soft Syncretism of Tau Lewis

By Darla Migan

In Vox Populi, Vox Dei, Tau Lewis’s recent exhibition at 52 Walker, textiles and temporal forces worked together to unstitch and rethread imperial mythmaking….

Reviews

The Preserving Machine of Matthias Groebel

By Sterre Barentsen

In 1980s West Germany, when public-access channels first began streaming into living rooms, Matthias Groebel started building a painting machine to compete with the…

Reviews

Out of Necessity and Out of Love: Andrea Fatona’s 30-Year Tribute to Black Canadian Women

By Neil Price

In 1989, amid fevered debates about multiculturalism and national identity, a group of Black women artists came together to organize an exhibition featuring artistic…

Reviews

Violence and Vibes Haunt Museum London’s “Spectral”

By Alex Borkowski

“A good perfume should make you feel a little apprehensive. It needs an intoxicating sillage. Something a bit gross and dark,” one sister whispers…

Features

Submerged Mothers: On Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi’s Tidal Embrace

By Jade Barget

A sea dragon and a mountain fairy lay one hundred eggs To each land, its origin story. Vietnam is the child of a sea-dwelling…

Features

Failure in Infinitives: A Remembrance of Bernadette Mayer

By Eliza Swann

A raccoon was screaming in agony with a gash in their side in Mollie’s backyard when I called to check in. “Animal control refused…

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