“What Instruments Have We?”: A Conversation with Emily Roysdon
“1. I believe in an alchemy of time. That a certain combination of words, a length of inaction, a discomposed room, or with some…
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Lee Mingwei and His Relations: The Legacy and Deviation of Relational Aesthetics in the East
“Beauty” and “dreamscape” are not buzzwords in today’s critical-art discourse. And yet they describe the Mori Art Museum’s Lee Mingwei and His Relations: The…
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How to Start an Art School
Why would you even want to? We want to be makers, not bureaucrats or lecturers. But after a dozen years of making, maybe you…
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Ryan McNamara and the Afterlife of Performance
How does performance art survive? What artifacts, narratives, or documents testify to performance’s occurrence? For the genre’s venerable practitioners from its historic moment of…
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When Does Performing Failure Make Its Own Failure?
How can an artist enact failure without presenting a failed act? How does an artist present an ethos of collapse without making work that…
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The Exit Interview: Stéphane Aquin Looks Back As He Advances to the Hirshhorn
Stéphane Aquin holds a distinguished profile in the Canadian artworld and abroad, in part because he arrived to the role of curator from art…
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Villa Toronto’s Failure and Provocation: How Do We Invite the Outside In?
In order to enter the Union Station’s Great Hall – a stunning keystone of Toronto’s historic architecture, with soaring coffered ceilings and heritage marble…
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Interview: Pedro Reyes Reclaims the Politics in Art
Mexican artist Pedro Reyes assumes a mantel that feels at once familiar and utterly unique. In a contemporary-art moment that is pronounced for its lateral reach…
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This is an article about art and gentrification, the inescapable topic. I have something new to add—that I think we may be coming to the…
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In Praise of Good Art Writing
I took this task a bit too seriously. I read every back issue of every magazine snow-drifting throughout my house, fingering all the books…
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