While the World Burns: The 32nd São Paulo Biennial’s Political Disregard
For the first time in the history of the São Paulo Biennial, the turnstiles disappeared. Attendees carried no tickets and sported no bracelets. The…
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Stardust Tears: Sojourner Truth Parsons’s “Crying in California”
The looping ladies and lipsticked cigarettes of Sojourner Truth Parsons’s past pictures give way here to a litter of pups amidst polychromatic explosions sopping…
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The Instagrammable Angst of Anne Imhof
The word “angst”’ in German carries a certain weight – as most German words do – that is less evident in its English appropriation:…
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Towards the Profane: Mierle Laderman Ukeles Exercises Her “Maintenance” at Queens Museum
The Queens Museum is devoting more space than it has ever given over to a single artist to survey the career of Mierle Laderman…
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Mark Ruwedel’s Desert History, as Fugitive Present
“I’ll show you fear in a handful of dust.” – T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland …
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Simone Leigh’s Powerful Meditation on Race and Healthcare Suffers, Ironically, from Lack of Access
Within intimate relationships, symptoms of passive aggression range from mild irritation to buckling torpor. When the relationship is between entire populations and corrupted institutions,…
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Liz Magor Waits, But Not For You
A retrospective exhibition should be thick with time. More ephemeral than the objects it displays, it is a stillness that passes, a terrain upon…
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DIS Collective’s Apathetic and Ironic Berlin Biennial Underestimates its Audience
This year’s Berlin Biennale title, The Present in Drag, spells out clearly what we can expect. The aim of the show is to reflect…
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Dumb Material and Animate Belief: Sadie Benning Plays (with) God
Occasionally, a show hits the sweet spot so squarely, that critical faculties seem to evaporate on the tip of one’s tongue. In the case…
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The Renewed Focus and Acrid Targeting of Rachel Harrison at MoMA and Greene Naftali
Rachel Harrison’s acidic colors, faux-finish surfaces, and otherwise unseemly media screech like saboteurs of good taste. Unlike a certain nascent presidential candidate, however, they…
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