Arenas of Freedom
“Time is more than a container; time participates.” —Susan Rethorst, A Choreographic Mind I often enter retrospectives with a certain girding of the…
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Swelling Time: Sam Tam Ham Probes the Prime Meridian
Like most other instruments of empire used to chart our world, the international prime meridian is an invisible, regnant force. A product of colonial…
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Picturing Disease and Desire
Across fourteen photographs, clothes strewn in a moment of passion transfigure into lasting compositions. Empty shoes perch and keel over, bra straps lie tangled,…
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Sinister and Playful: Anne Duk Hee Jordan at Canal Projects
Snailing (Slippy slimy slug slut), the first solo institutional show in New York by Anne Duk Hee Jordan, features an immersive installation that explores…
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Spaces of Doubt: Ursula Biemann at MUAC
Ursula Biemann has been challenging, and excavating, how knowledge is produced for thirty years now, but in the past decade she has turned her…
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Divya Mehra, Stirring and Whirring Colonialism’s Ghosts
The whirring motor sound emanates from an unusual contraption. A linear aluminum-rail system is attached to the wall, a vertical glint of silver adrift…
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Unplugged Games: Poetry as Resistance in Yanko González Cangas
Did you ever cheat on a test when you were in school? I didn’t. I was afraid of getting caught and lacked the ingenuity…
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Daddy Says: Ed Ruscha in Other Words
Ed Ruscha is a great American art daddy, such that he has been called “the deadpan laureate of American art,” “the great American Pop…
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Sidestepping Violence: The German Pavilion’s Failure to See the Present in the Past
At first glance, the earth spilling out from behind the tall, squared columns of the German pavilion’s facade appears to be a pile of…
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Peter Hujar’s Still Life in Motion
There is a photograph installed near the end of Peter Hujar: Rialto at New York’s Ukrainian Museum that still holds my attention. It is…
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