After Bjork Fiasco, MoMA’s Yoko Ono Show Makes a Case for Art and Celebrity
Yoko Ono: One-Woman Show, 1960-1971 arrives at the Museum of Modern Art pre-freighted with issues of art and celebrity that have dogged the institution of…
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To Cut and To Swipe: Understanding Hito Steyerl Through “HOW NOT TO BE SEEN”
The complex work of contemporary artist, media theorist, and filmmaker Hito Steyerl often pivots on a surprisingly simple tactic – wordplay. Consistently, across both…
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The Whitney’s Triumphant New Museum is Worrying For Art
Today, the new Whitney Museum of American Art opens its broad gates to the masses. If New York’s museum competition were a horserace, Renzo Piano’s appealing and thoughtful…
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The Suffering Body of 1993: Whatever Happened to the “Abject”
The best way to fuck something up is to give it a body. A voice is killed when it is given a body. Whenever…
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Parsing Re-Performance and Institutional Critique in the Choreography of Sasha Kleinplatz
what about doing the same piece for the rest of your life in different iterations? Chorus II as a work for children? as solo?…
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Interview: Stephen Bulger Reflects on Twenty Years of Missteps, Success, and Advancing Form in Photography
Photography gallerist Stephen Bulger (b. 1964) is celebrating a significant anniversary after steadily and concertedly contributing to the international market’s appreciation of photography’s position in…
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Interview: Curator Christopher Eamon Troubles the Shifting Form (and Relevance) of Photography
Early in its trajectory, independent curator and writer Christopher Eamon distinguished himself in the field of moving-image media and photography, and asserted its knock-kneed…
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Seeing Red: Understanding Kazuo Shiraga’s Sudden Fame
In recent years, the reputation of postwar abstract painter Kazuo Shiraga (1924-2008) – known for turbulent, crimson paintings made with his feet – has…
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The Alchemist: A Studio Visit with Sadie Weis
It is often said of desks and other work spaces that their appearance mirrors the mind of the person who uses said spaces –…
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Tools for Redress: A Century of Political Art Between “Zero Tolerance” and “The Left Front”
In the fall of 1929, the same month as the collapse of the American stock market, editors from the leftist magazine New Masses met…
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