Working It
In an interview about her 2003 performance Untitled, in which she had sex with an art collector on camera for a sum initially reported…
Evidence of Things Seen*: Capture and Control in India
I remember the day I first attempted to get my Aadhaar identification card made ten years ago. Every resident in my housing complex had…
Bad Reviews
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…
Momus & Forge Project Announce Participants of “Estuaries”
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)…
Finding One Another in Misrecognition: Summer Kim Lee Meets 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…
Azza El Siddique Summons Life Beyond Death
Sometimes called an alchemist, Azza El Siddique treats the act of making as just the beginning of a process that the artwork carries on….
Solitary: Collective Authorship and its Discontents
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
To launch our sixth season, Lauren Wetmore interviews Sky Goodden on a book that has recently got her all “twirled up.” They discuss Art…
The New World Looks Like the Old One: DYOR at Kunsthalle Zürich
A few years ago, I saw the same graffiti tag in Berlin and later in Athens: “Take acid, buy crypto,” it read, as if…
Never Risky: Seeking New Life at the Singapore Biennale
On a sweltering afternoon in January, after a short, bouncy, and very pleasant ride aboard a tiny pocket trawler, I found myself on Lazarus…
The Soft Syncretism of Tau Lewis
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….
The Preserving Machine of Matthias Groebel
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…
Out of Necessity and Out of Love: Andrea Fatona’s 30-Year Tribute to Black Canadian Women
In 1989, amid fevered debates about multiculturalism and national identity, a group of Black women artists came together to organize an exhibition featuring artistic…
Violence and Vibes Haunt Museum London’s “Spectral”
“A good perfume should make you feel a little apprehensive. It needs an intoxicating sillage. Something a bit gross and dark,” one sister whispers…
Submerged Mothers: On Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi’s Tidal Embrace
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…
Failure in Infinitives: A Remembrance of Bernadette Mayer
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…