Shannon Bool Traces the Women of Algiers
The symbolism of ornament has long founded Shannon Bool’s practice, and that’s lucky. It’s lucky that something so alluring could be both legitimating and…
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Conspiracy, Discounted Histories, and Nostalgia at the Met Breuer
A common analogy for a sprawling, hypnotic, and potentially fruitless search on the Internet is the rabbit hole: dark, long, and terminating in a…
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How a Dynasty Defines Taste: The Deep Roots of Middle Eastern Abstraction
The Nicolas Ibrahim Sursock Museum opened its grand stairway entrance to the public on November 18, 1961, nine years after the death of its…
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The Bold Refusal of lauren woods’s “American Monument”
There is a room for reflection with plush fuchsia carpeting outside of American Monument, an exhibition by lauren woods (she always uses lower-case letters)…
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Marilyn Minter’s Co-opted Desire
“The internet wouldn’t exist without pornography,” Marilyn Minter quipped on at least two occasions while in Hong Kong for the opening of her summer…
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A Frieze in Rome: William Kentridge Updates Augustus, Tangling Time
“When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” It sounds like good advice, but Romans seem largely to ignore William Kentridge’s Triumphs and Laments,…
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Branding the Anthropocene: Canada’s Art Institutions Privilege the Artificial
Anthropocene – the wide-reaching exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) – tackles perhaps the greatest…
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Homage to Oneself: Julian Schnabel Interprets the Musée d’Orsay
Imagine … imagine being invited by the Musée d’Orsay to interpret its magnificent collection while also including your own artwork in an exhibition of…
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“In the Round of Her Need”: An Interview with Ambera Wellmann
I first observed the uncanny paintings of Ambera Wellmann in an intimate solo show at Toronto’s now-defunct Richard Rhodes Dupont Projects. A natural light…
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The Curtain’s Part: Confronting Abstraction’s Complacency in Unquiet Times
Neil Wedman’s Spotlights, on view at Vancouver’s Equinox Gallery, fills the exhibition space with ten canvases depicting the concentrated shine of a spotlight on…
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