Chinese Futures for American Eyes at the Guggenheim
In a 1998 New York Times book review, American historian Stephen Greenblatt recalled gazing, as a youth, at the landscapes on the Chinese wallpaper…
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Behind the Curtain: Beatriz González’s Political-Decorative Art
A familiar scene: two dandies basking in a casual lunch on the grass, immersed in delightful parlay, accompanied by a completely naked woman in…
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Cruising for Sex in the Garden of Eden: Architecture and Desire in Venice
One of the major thoroughfares in the Venetian lagoon, the Bacino di San Marco, is host to a swelling, seasonal parade of cruise ships…
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Me For You: The Modest Directives of Ho Tam and Rainer Ganahl
Remember the “long tail”? It was the theory that digital technology would redistribute demand for cultural products, away from a few empowered hit-makers and…
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The Manner of Their Dying
I think of them often. I knew Felix best. Jorge I never knew well. I feared and admired AA’s bite and sophistication. But I…
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What Will Art Look Like in 100 Years? Sixteen Contemporary Artists Predict the Future
It’s an understatement to say that a lot can change in 100 years. A century ago, Europe was just limping out of World War…
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“Whitewalling,” Mishearing, and Translating Protest
Speech often fails when America talks to itself about race, about dissent, about protest, inequality, or exclusion. Those in positions to manifest systemic change…
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An Open Door, By the Lake: Nadia Belerique Advances Her Symbolism
A gift embedded in the trip to leafy, tony Oakville Galleries (a half-hour train ride from Toronto) is the moment you give yourself by…
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Touch, Desire, and the Trinket Box: Celia Perrin Sidarous Shifts Time
Celia Perrin Sidarous’s second solo exhibition at Montreal’s Parisian Laundry was suffused with a sense of authority and sobriety that feels new in her…
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The Politics of Contemporary Abstraction: A Conversation with Clare Rojas and Jeffrey Gibson
It’s a frustrating hallmark of these overheated times, the notion that one shouldn’t make abstract art in this political environment. I recently asked two…
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