
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,…
Read MoreThe German American artist Eva Hesse kept meticulous diaries throughout the late sixties and seventies that account for both her personal and professional anxieties,…
Read MoreShelly Mars has always been interested in what we should not talk about, and as a result, she has for the past forty years…
Read MoreAs the longest-running institutional survey of contemporary American art, the Whitney Biennial never fails to create “discourse.” Each iteration makes a claim about the…
Read MoreWe’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…
Read MoreChicago 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…
Read MorePacita Abad, the Filipina artist who roamed the world like a traveling bard, was twenty-four when she left home in 1970. By the time…
Read MoreLate last year, the artist Adam Broomberg again found himself punished for speaking out in support of Palestinian liberation. Karlsruhe University of Arts and…
Read MoreWhen our son was nine and a half weeks old and the only place we had managed to take him was the pediatrician’s office,…
Read MoreThe Feminist Art Program (1970–1975): Cycles of Collectivity, which recently closed at REDCAT (an art center run by CalArts), could easily have been called Cycles…
Read MoreBowdoin College is not a place particularly accommodating to weirdos—or at least it wasn’t when I attended lo these many years ago. Perhaps things have changed…
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