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

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

“Where Does Art Get To Live?”: A Conversation Between Anique Jordan and Michèle Pearson Clarke

On a perfect spring day in late May, I found myself huddled in a crowded gallery for an artist talk, my head leaning forward,…

Claire Morgan’s “Dead Weight” in Paris

A pale woman clutches a dead fox to her bosom, her hold on its lifeless pelt somewhere between a cuddle and a throttle. Her…

A Lapidary Grief: Sheila Heti’s “Pure Colour” Dares Her Critics

Sheila Heti’s most recent novel, Pure Colour, is a dream-like, funny, soulful, hard-to-wrangle meditation on what it means to live as someone else’s creation,…

Carolee Schneemann’s Ethics of Eros

Amid a surging wave of political activism and newly liberated energies, Carolee Schneemann wrote, in 1968, that “perception should lead to action.” Schneemann suspected…

Exposing the Contradictions: Jewish Artists Dismantling Germany’s Nationalist Narrative

Late last year, the artist Adam Broomberg again found himself punished for speaking out in support of Palestinian liberation. Karlsruhe University of Arts and…

Between Language and Cure: Athena Papadopoulos at MOCA Toronto

The UK-based and Toronto-born Athena Papadopoulos created the sculptures for her recent exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (MOCA), her first institutional…

Anna Mayer Reconstitutes Loss in Houston

Anna Mayer’s first solo exhibition in Houston, Forms of Inheritance, opens with a photographic mural printed on cotton canvas and splayed across a wall…

The Substance of Grief: Nelson Henricks Deepens the Black Page

In the course of my grieving, I lost my capacity to represent my grief to others. There were no useful tools to properly describe…

Mourning at the Museum: Montreal’s Post-Sincere Send-Off for Leonard Cohen

The impulse to grieve publicly is a measure of our turbulent times. We know, lately, the need to share a collective sadness. However, before…