The Manner of Their Dying
I think of them often. I knew Felix best. Jorge I never knew well. I feared and admired AA’s bite and sophistication. But I…
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What Will Art Look Like in 100 Years? Sixteen Contemporary Artists Predict the Future
It’s an understatement to say that a lot can change in 100 years. A century ago, Europe was just limping out of World War…
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The Politics of Contemporary Abstraction: A Conversation with Clare Rojas and Jeffrey Gibson
It’s a frustrating hallmark of these overheated times, the notion that one shouldn’t make abstract art in this political environment. I recently asked two…
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How to Make Art History
Right now, in some small room, art history is being made. The notion is a carved chunk of marble, a brass plaque, the halls…
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What is to be Learned, What is to be Done? Thomas Hirschhorn at the Remai Modern
Three months ago, I bought a CD of poetry from Johnny Marceland, a sixty-year-old Dene man who lives in my hometown of Saskatoon. Throughout…
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Think of Harald’s Position: Weighing Szeemann’s Obsessions in L.A.
Harald Szeemann organized a show called Friends and Their Friends in 1969, his last year as chief curator at the Kunsthalle Bern. Selected artists…
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New Forms for New Crises: The Need for a New Ecological Representation
In his recent polemic Against the Anthropocene, art historian T. J. Demos calls for a shift in the language we use to think through…
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How to Stop Working Better
1 DO ONE THING AT A TIME The story goes that the Swiss artist duo Peter Fischli & David Weiss found this list…
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Virginia Woolf: Thinking Back Through Our Mothers at the Tate
“If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills – then my…
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Too, Too Solid Flesh: An Interview-Collage with Judith Supine
My friends in Detroit are obsessed with list-making. They’ve all been on the hunt for personalized license plates of late, exclaiming “BB Benz” or…
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