Retrospective: Pollock in LIFE
Journalists follow a time-tested format. An example of this occurs in what is perhaps the most important article about art published in any magazine,…
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Interview: The Difficulty in Distilling Suzy Lake
Suzy Lake occupies a unique position in contemporary art history, having both helmed and contributed to the advent and advancement of at least three…
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Is the iPhone a Blessing or a Curse for Art?
In 1951, Hans Namuth first published his photos of Jackson Pollock at work. They were meant as documents of the famed artist’s process. But…
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Interview: Venice Biennale Curator Okwui Enwezor On “All the World’s Futures” and the Angel of History
During the London presentation of the 56th Venice Biennale, “All the World’s Futures,” curator Okwui Enwezor talked a lot about the past. H referenced…
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“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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