Artists in Isolation: Lynne Cohen and the Fullness of Empty Space
There’s one image of a bed dressed in bleached sheets sanitized to a crisp, with a thin, folded blanket at the foot, in an…
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Artists in Isolation: Day’s End
“I had no faith in any kind of permission.” So he cut off the lock and replaced it with his own, then went to…
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Artists in Isolation: There Have Always Been Signs
“We are not where we think we are,” Dr. Fauci warned, before we all woke up to an altered time. In this new reality,…
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Artists in Isolation: Instagram, Leave Us to Our Darkness
Sometime that feels pretty recent, the internet turned into an actual talent show. Social media always felt performative, and now, with TikTok ascendant 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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Artists in Isolation: Adad Hannah’s Tableaux Vivants
A figure stands pinned in place. He was fighting. Shadowboxing, maybe. Now he’s halted and just breathing and waiting and watching, nervously. Late-frost synthesizers…
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