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Monica Westin

Monica Westin is a writer and historian of rhetoric. Her art writing has appeared in frieze, BOMB, Artforum.com, Art Papers, and SFAQ, among other places. She teaches in the MFA program at California College of the Arts and works in an academic library at the University of California. She is currently writing a science-fiction novel that first begins in the crisis of third-century Rome.

Features, Reviews• August 9, 2017

Place, Space, or Backdrop: The Dilemma of Desert X, the “Coachella Biennial”

By Monica Westin

Against this summer’s alignment of Documenta 14, the Venice Biennale, and Skulptur Projekte Münster, the first edition of the Desert X biennial seemed to…

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Reviews• May 19, 2017

Invasiveness and Indigeneity: Alicia Escott’s Complicit Critique

By Monica Westin

An iconography of flora and fauna local to the Sunset District of San Francisco administers a powerful critique, in Alicia Escott’s current exhibition. Using…

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Reviews• February 17, 2017

With the Logic of Vegas, the Seduction of Art: Hadar Kleiman’s Cheap Desirability in San Francisco

By Monica Westin

Hadar Kleiman’s brainy, seductive solo show at R/SF Projects in San Francisco reproduces sites of pure consumerism in a playful, complicit kind of late-capitalist…

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