How to Hang a Picture
A year after losing your apartment to a developer’s wrecking ball, after unpacking all the battered paperback and dented pots, the thrift-store nightstands and…
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What’s Become of the “Curator”?
After a decade or more in which soi-disant curators bestrode the earth like canapé-guzzling colossi, a subtle schism is underway, led by a number…
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Morbid Symptoms: In Search of the Post-Contemporary at the 2016 Montreal Biennial
In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s nauseating election victory, hard on the heels of this year’s earlier Brexit vote in the UK, it has…
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A Culture War is Coming
Very early on November 9 – about a minute after permanent midnight – the stunned responses started rolling in. “WTF are you doing over…
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How to FOMO: Missing Out On the Fear of Missing Out
Along the long evening avenue of towering hotels during the art fair, you weave through the crowds. Another night. The faces flicker and scatter…
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An Elegy for Annie Pootoogook (1969–2016)
Annie Pootoogook was from the Arctic near the North Pole. Her community is called Kinngait in Inuktitut – the language of Inuit people – and…
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The Ellipses of Eva Hesse: Reading Her Collected Diaries
Eva Hesse’s collected diaries begin at the end. In the book’s last sentence, editor Barry Rosen thanks Hesse’s friend Gioia Timpanelli for discovering the…
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Wifredo Lam: The Albissola Years
It was his spirit of collaboration and friendship that first brought my father to the Italian coastal town of Albissola, just west of Genoa….
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Ajay Kurian’s Futures Long Since Passed
If we are to believe artist Hito Steyerl, then ours is an age of planetary civil war. With conflict distributed across the globe, there’s…
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“Embarrassment is a Challenge”: The Queasy Vulnerability of Maria Lassnig
In 1972 a curious awards ceremony took place in the cramped Manhattan studio of Austrian painter Maria Lassnig. Tired of being ignored as an…
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