Post-Confessional: The Aging Intimacies of Sophie Calle
In advance of Missing, French conceptual artist Sophie Calle’s first major retrospective in the United States, both New York Times Magazine and the Guardian…
Read MoreIn advance of Missing, French conceptual artist Sophie Calle’s first major retrospective in the United States, both New York Times Magazine and the Guardian…
Read MoreThe phrase “cutting for sign” means searching a landscape for clues. This might refer to the search for a lost herd of cattle or…
Read MoreLet’s start with the premise that Ydessa Hendeles is an artist. And why shouldn’t we? Is it the fact that she started as a…
Read MoreAny description of the new traveling Georgia O’Keeffe exhibit Living Modern must start with a blouse. On a hanger in the middle of the…
Read MoreLike exotic flowers, international art exhibitions bloom in Berlin, Kassel, and Münster every two, five, or ten years, helping to establish Germany, alongside Venice,…
Read MoreThe pedagogical framework espoused by the title of this year’s two-city, quinquennial documenta – Learning from Athens – preemptively suggests an ethnographic or neocolonial…
Read MoreThe bad news is Brexit. The good news (other than the recent British election) is that British humor, of the nonsense variety, is alive…
Read MoreRecent art writing has been marked by a compulsion to cast every subject against an unfolding political crisis. Press releases, reviews, and essays implore…
Read MoreInternational art gatherings are loud affairs, and a trip through documenta 14 in Kassel rewards an ability to separate signal from noise. In a…
Read More“What, then, is the aura? A strange tissue of space and time: the unique apparition of a distance, however near it may be. To…
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