An Insipid Blame Game: Tony Cokes and the Monotony of Art About Trump
Over the past four decades, Tony Cokes has perfected the art of the social justice slideshow. His video essays pair appropriated text with corporate…
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Depleting Felix Gonzalez-Torres
In recent weeks, piles of fortune cookies materialized around the world – in art spaces, restaurants, and private homes in Dubai, Beijing, Montevideo, and…
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Artists in Isolation: Wafaa Bilal’s “Domestic Tension”
In 2007 Wafaa Bilal locked himself inside a Chicago gallery. He lived there alone for a month, using a webcam to broadcast around the…
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Firing Blanks: Hito Steyerl and the Voiding of Research Art
We’ve all heard the statistics. That in America, there is a mass shooting every day, that one hundred Americans die from gun violence daily,…
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An Exhibit in an Email: Vimeo Links, PR, and Posturing by Proxy
The night is dark and full of texture. And somewhere, over an indeterminate stretch of inky sea, the sky is lit up with red…
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“Afrogallonism” Takes Dubai: South-South Solidarity and the Urge to Exoticize
Yellow’s a strange cornstarch slurry of a word, one that quickly gets thick on the tongue and loses all meaning. Its symbolism oscillates wildly,…
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The Center Holds: Bruce High Quality Foundation’s Accidental Gulf Nativism
Every first of May, as people around the world take to the streets to commemorate labor struggles, members of France’s Front National party (FN)…
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