Ron Athey’s “Far-Right Flirtations”
I have never been to a Ron Athey performance. I never went to any of the clubs he frequented; I’ve never met him in…
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See You on the Other Side: Matthew Wong’s Vistas of the Mind
In Matthew Wong’s oil painting See You On the Other Side (2019), a figure in blue stands at the edge of a frozen landscape…
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Imagination Over Submission: Luis Camnitzer’s Liberatory Art Education
Over the summer of 2020, I was continually surprised by the versatility of cars. Amid mutual aid mobilizing and uprisings against police – each…
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With No Type of Story: Touring the Untied Mind of Pippa Garner
In 1978, the artist Pippa Garner wrote a list of “Opinions and Comments.” Among them is one that reads, “People should name their brains,”…
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Season 4 Episode 5: Rianna Jade Parker on “Letter from London”
Rianna Jade Parker reads “Letter from London: What is the Status of Black Artists in England Today?” published in ARTnews (June 2020), and engages…
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Letter From Atlanta: St. Roch Blues
Living in Atlanta, I thought, would be different – if not exceptional – during a pandemic. Atlanta is, after all, home to the Center…
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Stuck in the Same Muck: Journeying Through Asher Hartman’s Psychic Theater
God seduced Jesus on a Circuit City breakroom table. The seduction began as we, the audience, sat circled in child-sized chairs in a too-bright…
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Season 4 Episode 4: Léuli Eshrāghi on “tagatavāsā”
In episode 4, Dr. Léuli Eshrāghi discusses “tagatavāsā,” a text centered on Eshrāghi’s grandmother’s art practice that interweaves Indigenous language with the vernacular of…
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The Aesthetic Dimension of Erasure: Voluspa Jarpa on Twenty Years of Recovering Trauma
When my Skype interview with Voluspa Jarpa begins, her face is sandwiched between two huge lips like a Tour de France winner being pecked…
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We Are Gathered Here to Grieve: Salvaging, Mourning, and ‘Cargo Cult Formalism’ in New York
As New York galleries reopened after the first wave of lockdowns, I noticed a trend across a handful of exhibitions that channeled the alienation…
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