For days before Art Basel opens, an ant colony of installers, assistants, interns, and technicians (an estimated majority of whom are themselves artists-on-the-make, myself…
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Imagine the ghost of Lina Bo Bardi banging the ceiling with a broomstick to annoy whomever’s making a ruckus upstairs. Now imagine it’s not…
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Mona Hatoum’s Grater Divide (2002) is a cheese-grater nearly seven feet high. On the one hand, it’s laugh-out-loud funny. On the other, it’s lethal. It…
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A young architect in Berlin recently argued to me that working with refugees on a design-build project could lend it more credibility and political…
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At the dinner table, my father asked the priest if he could pour him a warm Coke. The priest, a distant family relative and…
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Develop an interest in a particular area of art, history, or science. Be detail-oriented. Volunteer at a museum or similar institution. Get your undergraduate…
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1951. “I don’t look back. I don’t want to know. I only think about the future, and I know that it’s certain.” These words…
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It’s autumn, in Edmonton. A crowd begins to gather outside an enclosed asphalt rink where bodies will soon be pressed against each other. It’s…
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In 1971 Derek Jarman made a 10-minute film called Journey To Avebury, documenting a summer walk through the chalklands of southern England. At first…
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In February, I sent Momus editor Sky Goodden a draft of a review of an exhibition in Alberta that I had pitched to her…
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