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Joseph Henry

Joseph Henry is PhD Candidate in the art history program at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he’s writing a dissertation on German Expressionism. He’s been a Helena Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program, a Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Dia Art Foundation, and most recently, a Scholar-in-Residence at LACMA’s Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. In 2019 he received a DAAD One-Year Research Grant to study in Berlin.

Features, Reviews• August 1, 2019

Love and Loneliness: Queering Modernisms in Figurative Painting

By Joseph Henry

I work on 22nd Street in the Chelsea gallery district of Manhattan, so it was easy to notice the painting. Louis Fratino’s I keep…

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Reviews• June 14, 2017

“All Awareness Becomes Base”: Jens Hoffmann’s Reduction of The Arcades Project

By Joseph Henry

“What, then, is the aura? A strange tissue of space and time: the unique apparition of a distance, however near it may be. To…

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Features• April 27, 2015

The Suffering Body of 1993: Whatever Happened to the “Abject”

By Joseph Henry

The best way to fuck something up is to give it a body. A voice is killed when it is given a body. Whenever…

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Features• March 10, 2015

“What Instruments Have We?”: A Conversation with Emily Roysdon

By Joseph Henry

“1. I believe in an alchemy of time. That a certain combination of words, a length of inaction, a discomposed room, or with some…

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Features, Reviews• February 4, 2015

Ryan McNamara and the Afterlife of Performance

By Joseph Henry

How does performance art survive? What artifacts, narratives, or documents testify to performance’s occurrence? For the genre’s venerable practitioners from its historic moment of…

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Reviews• January 8, 2015

Querying the New Appropriation Art: Is This Cynicism?

By Joseph Henry

The Denny Gallery may have given themselves a curatorial headache with the title of their current exhibition, Share This! Appropriation After Cynicism. There are…

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Features• December 31, 2014

Year in Review: The Women Represented

By Joseph Henry

To cast back and select my favorite art this year requires a mnemonic leap of faith. I’d hope the ‘best’ exhibitions, pieces, and events…

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Features• November 17, 2014

Kill the Expert: An Interview with Brian Droitcour

By Joseph Henry

The word “post-internet” is a useful, if maybe not quite necessary, evil. First attributed to the writing of artist Marisa Olson, the term has…

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Features• October 27, 2014

The Commons of Aggregation: The Case for Net Art as Public Art

By Joseph Henry

Let me begin with an art historical chestnut — a 1855 painting by the French painter Gustave Courbet called The Artist’s Studio, A Real…

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Features• October 15, 2014

Nice Things: The Pleasure Principle in Jeff Koons and Cory Arcangel

By Joseph Henry

If you’ve taken the New York subway in the last couple of months, you’ve probably seen advertisements for the Whitney Museum’s Jeff Koons exhibition….

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