Worst-Case Scenarios: Contemporary Art’s #Metoo Handwringing
Like most grassroots movements borne of slow-simmering anger and long-standing frustration, #MeToo is both overdue and messy as hell. Its faint whiff of anarchy…
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Real Bodies: A Tribute to Linda Nochlin
In the summer of 1994, the end of my second year at the IFA and Linda Nochlin’s first, she came to stay with my…
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The Personal and Political Wrestle it Out in Kara Walker’s Rebellious New Show
Before we saw the art, we saw the hype: a press release, consisting of two seemingly mismatched parts, which circulated widely and even garnered…
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Mourning Jimmie Durham
In April, I wrote a review of an exhibition at the Hammer Museum at UCLA: “Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World.” I…
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White Space, Black Spectacle at MASS MoCA
On May 28, 2017, MASS MoCA inaugurated its new Building 6, doubling its existing gallery space and turning the 16-acre complex of abandoned, 19th-century…
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