Future Forecast: The Montreal Biennale 2014
The Montreal Biennale is at once a new institution and an old one. Last year, the previous iteration of the Biennale (independently operated since…
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The Dreamscapes of Vienna’s Sprawling “Century of the Bed” Series
In last year’s cyber-romance Her, Amy Adams plays a videogame developer who is making a documentary film in her spare time. When she screens…
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Karen Kraven Nets Meaning in the Threads
As viewers of art – and as living things – we are built to find patterns, to process vast and various data with frenetic…
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Blue Republic Finds its Center
Since its inception, Blue Republic (comprised of the married collaborator-duo Anna Passakas and Radoslaw Kudlinski) has been working somewhat site-unseen. It has presented solo exhibitions…
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Machinations: Stan Douglas Makes His Theatrical Debut
What to make of Stan Douglas’s Helen Lawrence – currently on at Toronto’s CanStage – from the perspective of a theater-goer unfamiliar with the…
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The Militant Image
In 2003 the medieval town of Graz, in lower Austria (a region famously the birthplace of Arnold Schwarzenegger – his cardboard cutout greets you…
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Pierre Huyghe’s Airless Fantasy at Hauser & Wirth
Here’s my beef with Pierre Huyghe: the more his work dazzles his viewers with theatrical special effects, the more his underlying motivations are lost…
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An Italian Futurist Out of Step with the Rest: Salvatore Scarpitta
Salvatore Scarpitta’s solo show at the Hirschhorn Gallery, Traveler, includes two race cars, a burnt-out sled, canvases that had been slashed, layered, and strung…
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How Curating Took Over the World: David Balzer’s Game-Changing “Curationism”
No doubt you’ve noticed it: from museums to film festivals, boutiques to restaurants, and basically everywhere on the internet, people are curating. Once the…
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The Miserable Quips of Brad Phillips
Love makes love, hate makes hate, and disdain has a strange way of eliciting both. Brad Phillips’s show I Didn’t Retire, I Surrendered, a…
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