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Tausif Noor

Tausif Noor is a critic and art writer currently working on his PhD in History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the former Spiegel-Wilks Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania and a graduate of Dartmouth College, where he studied art history; and Goldsmiths, University of London, where he received his MA in Art and Politics. From 2014-15, he was a Fulbright Scholar in India, and has held internships at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Imperial War Museum in London, and the not-for-profit agency Culture+Conflict, based in the UK. His writing has appeared in exhibition catalogues for the India Habitat Center and Karma Gallery in New York and in venues such as Artforum, frieze, and ArtAsiaPacific, among others.

Reviews• June 5, 2019

The Faces That You Meet: Huma Bhabha’s Close Encounters

By Tausif Noor

The works of Huma Bhabha affect a strange pareidolia: they lure, and then repel, dissipating the familiarity they promise. The Karachi-born artist mines the…

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Reviews• December 17, 2018

Conspiracy, Discounted Histories, and Nostalgia at the Met Breuer

By Tausif Noor

A common analogy for a sprawling, hypnotic, and potentially fruitless search on the Internet is the rabbit hole: dark, long, and terminating in a…

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Reviews• May 24, 2018

Are We Being Preached To? Adrian Piper’s Prompts at the MoMA

By Tausif Noor

Adrian Piper’s artistic statements reject a moralizing approach. “I try for simplicity, not simplification. I don’t want to make prescriptions about what people should…

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Features, Reviews• September 27, 2017

Fake News, Bad Art

By Tausif Noor

When the Oxford English Dictionary announced that its 2016 Word of the Year was post-truth, the understanding was that the political upheavals of the…

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Reviews• June 21, 2017

Sound/Off: Uneasy Listening at documenta 14 in Kassel

By Tausif Noor

International art gatherings are loud affairs, and a trip through documenta 14 in Kassel rewards an ability to separate signal from noise. In a…

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Features• March 15, 2017

The Double-Bind in Raqs Media Collective’s Institutional Critique

By Tausif Noor

Longing we say, because desire is full of endless distances                            …

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Reviews• February 3, 2017

Drones, by Design: Mahwish Chishty and the Politics of Representation

By Tausif Noor

What’s at stake – aesthetically and politically – when we imagine the drone as an emblem for contemporary society? Consider the range of artistic…

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Reviews• November 17, 2016

Weird Science: William Kentridge Deepens Time at Whitechapel

By Tausif Noor

Normal science, wrote Thomas Kuhn, is the way most scientists spend their time: the quotidian task of theorizing, observing, experimenting – puzzle solving, in…

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Reviews• July 13, 2016

Battle Hymn of the Republic: The Measure of Kehinde Wiley in the American South

By Tausif Noor

Though history is said to have been written by the victors, one might be forgiven for casting doubt on this particular adage in Richmond,…

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