Changing the Ground: Amy Sillman Talks About Painting
Amy Sillman is a highly regarded painter, writer, and curator based in New York. One might regard her as a consummate insider. The artist…
Read MoreAmy Sillman is a highly regarded painter, writer, and curator based in New York. One might regard her as a consummate insider. The artist…
Read MoreThe painter Agnes Martin contemplated language with a great deal of skepticism. Though she produced an impressive body of written work, mostly compiled and…
Read MoreIn the fall of 2023, when I came to New York on a research fellowship, I visited Levani’s studio for the second time. Levani,…
Read More“The Sound-Sweep,” a 1960 short story by J. G. Ballard, takes place in a world where normal music has been supplanted by soundless, uncontaminated…
Read MoreSatisfaction (2000) by the artist Alexis Smith is a collage that features a shabby reproduction of Hokusai’s The Great Wave placed within a glitzy…
Read MoreI was once teleported to Chapada dos Veadeiros (Plateau of the Deer Protectors) National Park in the southwestern region of the state of Goiás…
Read MoreWhat is the visuality of abortion care? Though I am writing this text for a publication based in Los Angeles—once my home for many…
Read MoreSawridge First Nation artist Brenda Draney paints open-ended memories, what might have been or should have been or could have been otherwise. Her solo…
Read MoreOn August 29, 2023, the Globe and Mail published an article headlined “Toronto’s cash-strapped Artscape to enter receivership, end management of 14 artist facilities.”…
Read MoreRarely do I find a work of art as disturbing as Louise Bonnet’s innocuously titled painting Figure Holding an Orange (2023). This thirty-square-foot oil-on-linen…
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