Jill Magid’s Post-Truth Diamond Proposal
As the spectacle of the 2016 United States presidential elections played out over the summer, Mexico hosted a surreal visit by a well-known, polarizing…
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New Books: Gauguin and Proust Meet at the Border of Painting and Literature
The old quarrel between critics and artists (especially painters) plays out with exuberance in two pamphlet-like essays now available from David Zwirner Books. Adding…
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Performance Art in a Precarious Time: A Conversation with Johanna Householder and Francisco-Fernando Granados
In movement study of a standard North American strip-search procedure, Francisco-Fernando Granados gambols through a codified gestural sequence: “empty pockets … remove clothing ……
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Grieving in L.A.
My first trip to Los Angeles started ten days after an election that diminished our assurance in something like a common good. I booked…
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The Material Undoings of Kelly Lycan
During a month of dispiriting world news, the work first struck me as a room in mourning: an emptiness indifferent to being filled. White…
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An Allegory for an Absconded Modernity: Claudio Correa’s Brigantine Signals Chile’s Speculative Present
Physically light, Libertad, Igualdad, Fatalidad (2016) is not underweight on ambition or conceptual ballast. Its creator, Chilean artist Claudio Correa, installed a real-scale brigantine…
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How to Hang a Picture
A year after losing your apartment to a developer’s wrecking ball, after unpacking all the battered paperback and dented pots, the thrift-store nightstands and…
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What’s Become of the “Curator”?
After a decade or more in which soi-disant curators bestrode the earth like canapé-guzzling colossi, a subtle schism is underway, led by a number…
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Morbid Symptoms: In Search of the Post-Contemporary at the 2016 Montreal Biennial
In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s nauseating election victory, hard on the heels of this year’s earlier Brexit vote in the UK, it has…
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A Culture War is Coming
Very early on November 9 – about a minute after permanent midnight – the stunned responses started rolling in. “WTF are you doing over…
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