Losing Ground in Singapore’s State-Curated Digital Age
The Substation, a leading arts center in Singapore, announced its permanent closure in March after its thirty-year stint as an independent home for the…
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Season 5 Episode 2: Harry Dodge
In this episode, artist Harry Dodge reads from My Meteorite, or Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing (Penguin Press, 2020). Dodge, a…
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Don’t Look Back: Renée Green’s Present Tense
Renée Green’s latest exhibition Inevitable Distances unfolds across two locations, the KW Institute of Contemporary Art and the daadgalerie, both of which bill the…
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Across This Fraught Place: Survivance at the 2021 Texas Biennial
In one part of Tomashi Jackson’s video Vibrating Boundaries (Law of the Land) (Self Portrait as Tatyana, Dajerria, & Sandra) (2015), we hear audio…
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Season 5 Episode 1: Emmanuel Iduma
In the first episode of Season 5, Lauren Wetmore speaks with Nigerian art writer Emmanuel Iduma, who reads from “Mileage from Here: Nine…
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An Aesthetic of Enough
This month, COP26, the UN’s near-annual climate conference, gathered global heads of state to set a new round of targets to limit global emissions…
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Situating Great Ocean Art in Canadian Museums
I come from the villages of Leulumoega, Siʻumu, Salelologa and Āpia in the western islands of the Sāmoan archipelago. My family also comes from…
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The Capaciousness of Blackness: An Interview with Dawit. L. Petros
Not very long ago I read Toni Morrison’s Home. This, her tenth novel, chronicles the wayward journey of a young war veteran, Frank Money,…
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Stop Guarding the Art
The Baltimore Museum of Art will open an exhibition guest-curated by 17 of the museum’s security officers next March. Titled Guarding the Art, art…
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More than Not: LACMA’s “Not I” and the Necessity of History
Not I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE–2020 CE), a recent exhibition at LACMA, was in thrall to its ideas. Though ventriloquism was its central theme,…
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