A Model for Risk-Taking: Arthur Tress’s Grotesque Allegory of a Presidential Cabinet
“What do you see when you look at pictures of President Trump’s cabinet?” asks writer David French in an interactive web exclusive that ran…
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Implied Threat, Implied Responsibility: Elizabeth Catlett at the National Gallery of Art
At this time when we are fighting an all out war against tyranny and oppression, it is extremely important that the picture of Negro…
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End of the World: Revisiting a Lost Future at Spiral Jetty
They arrive at my Salt Lake City apartment in the middle of the afternoon on the tenth of September, 2016, and we’re on the…
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Improvising at the Edge of the World: Joan Jonas at the Gund
Somewhere in the stratosphere between Ohio and New York, cumbersome bodies bumping against pockets of turbulence, my mind turned to the title of Lucie…
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A Punk-Rock Polyglot: The Subversive Riffing of Carole Caroompas
The late artist Carole Caroompas was once asked why rock and roll provided such generative source material for her paintings and performance art. Caroompas…
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The Breathing Field of Marlon Kroll
I sat in the last row of the bus, watching the scenery dissolve into dusk, each passing moment echoing the temporal experience I’d just…
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To Ensure the Record Can Never Be Whitewashed: Honoring Nona Faustine
Nona Faustine, who passed away this March, was magnificent—a valiant beacon of light in a world often cruel and dismissive of Black women’s histories…
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The High Stakes of Nancy Holt’s Systems
Systems call to mind the grandiose, sweeping, and entrenched, for better or worse. Systems of belief, systems theory, the prison system … By comparison,…
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We Are the Same Thing: The Sutured Selves of María Magdalena Campos-Pons
For the past few weeks, I’ve been mulling over an image from a single-channel video by interdisciplinary artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons. In Baño Sagrado…
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Havensong (after and for heidi andrea restrepo rhodes and Diana SeoHyung)
Momus and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics have co-published the spring edition of Post/doc, the VLC’s biannual publishing series for discursive,…
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