“I Think We’re Changing Into a Tribal Nation”: A Conversation with Dave Hickey on “25 Women”
When you have as many critics as Dave Hickey, you don’t hope to publish a book quietly so much as attract the right kind…
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Back to the Future: The Social-Activist Architecture of Moshe Safdie
A recent exhibition at the National Academy Museum in New York raised the question Moshe Safdie (born 1938) has wrestled with his whole career. Is…
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“How to Lie About Canadian Art”: A Case Study in Art Criticism
Art criticism doesn’t often speculate on the value of pithy maxims such as ‘there’s no such thing as bad publicity.” But when an article…
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How to See the Invisible
“An SEP,” he said, “is something that we can’t see, or don’t see, or our brain doesn’t let us see, because we think that…
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Towards the Quiet, or with Larger Amplifiers: An Interview with Berlin Performance Artist Aleks Slota
Nothing about Aleks Slota’s elfin appearance prepares you for his performances. Small-framed and wiry, his body hardly looks bullish enough for acts of endurance…
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Do You Have to Be Rich to Make It as an Artist?
On my end-of-the-year “Best Shows” list, I nominated Rachel Rose’s hypnotic Everything and More video at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In response,…
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From Exile to Acclaim, the Unlikely Story of Mu Xin, and China’s Reformation
Landscaping along the 87-mile stretch of highway from Shanghai to the ancient village of Wuzhen in southern China is a work in progress. On…
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Any Plans After the Exhibition?
The image above is an installation shot from When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013. It was a recreation of Harald Szeeman’s famous exhibition…
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The Most Important Art Essays of the Year
This time last year, my editor asked me to put together a list of the most important essays of 2014, and I drew a blank….
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Why Can’t We Talk About Class and Art in Canada?
A couple of weeks ago, an old friend posted a j’accuse on social media. It was brief and blunt and perhaps even rude. They…
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