Kelly Lycan’s Objects in Waiting
Kelly Lycan is a photo-based installation artist who pulls apart our expectations of the photograph. Like a back door or a sprung leak, her…
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Dempsey Bob is Waking Up
A camera pans down slowly, following the progression of a fast-flowing waterfall in the Pacific Northwest. The first minute of A Wolf’s Way: Dempsey…
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On Not Lasting: Diaries, Loss, and the Art of Eva Hesse
The German American artist Eva Hesse kept meticulous diaries throughout the late sixties and seventies that account for both her personal and professional anxieties,…
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Invasion from Mars: On the Charged Personae of Shelly Mars
Shelly Mars has always been interested in what we should not talk about, and as a result, she has for the past forty years…
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Reviewing the Reviews: The 2024 Whitney Biennial
As the longest-running institutional survey of contemporary American art, the Whitney Biennial never fails to create “discourse.” Each iteration makes a claim about the…
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Goodbye to Berlin
We’re learning to live with somebody’s depression, And I don’t want to live with somebody’s depression —David Bowie, “Fantastic Voyage” When I arrived in…
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Romantic and Brawling: On Four Chicago Artists
Chicago has never really recovered from Imagism. That local explosion—whose blast radius stretched from roughly the late 1940s through the mid-1970s—gave the city’s art…
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Pacita Abad Sees the Soul of an Artifact
Pacita Abad, the Filipina artist who roamed the world like a traveling bard, was twenty-four when she left home in 1970. By the time…
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Exposing the Contradictions: Jewish Artists Dismantling Germany’s Nationalist Narrative
Late last year, the artist Adam Broomberg again found himself punished for speaking out in support of Palestinian liberation. Karlsruhe University of Arts and…
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Radical Looking: Newly Seeing Art With My Baby
When our son was nine and a half weeks old and the only place we had managed to take him was the pediatrician’s office,…
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