The Thread of the Weave: Meaning from Material at Oakville Galleries
In an era of unprecedented political and ecological crisis, what does it mean for the public when the exhibitionary complex turns its gaze away…
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Love and Loneliness: Queering Modernisms in Figurative Painting
I work on 22nd Street in the Chelsea gallery district of Manhattan, so it was easy to notice the painting. Louis Fratino’s I keep…
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Wire and String: Olga Balema’s Sinewy Abjection
What does it mean when the most meaningful thing is damn near nothing at all? Not the antiseptic nothing of Marie Kondo’s puritan minimalism,…
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Firing Blanks: Hito Steyerl and the Voiding of Research Art
We’ve all heard the statistics. That in America, there is a mass shooting every day, that one hundred Americans die from gun violence daily,…
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The Totemic Quotidian in Roula Partheniou
At a time when contemporary art production is dominated by forces outside its control, pulling and pushing against commercial and cultural contexts; when media…
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Can a Lobby Be Subversive? Jenny Holzer’s Comcast Capitulation
At 60 stories and 1,121 feet, the new Comcast Technology Center is the tallest building in Philadelphia, a glaringly optimistic slice of the city’s…
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Free Your Mind, or Else: “Acid Communism” and Contemporary Art’s Futurism
Along with the blog posts, articles, reviews, and interviews collected in K-Punk, last year’s voluminous anthology of writings by the late British cultural theorist…
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The Faces That You Meet: Huma Bhabha’s Close Encounters
The works of Huma Bhabha affect a strange pareidolia: they lure, and then repel, dissipating the familiarity they promise. The Karachi-born artist mines the…
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From a Cabin in the Woods: Dieter Roelstraete’s “HUTOPIA” and the Shelters of Thought
I harbor fantasies of retreating for stretches of time to a simple cabin in the countryside. My place, spare but tasteful, would feature a…
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Grafting the Baroque: The Scaled-Up Frames of David Armstrong Six
“Everything is composed of small particles of itself and they are flying around in concentric circles and arcs and segments and innumerable other geometrical…
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