Too, Too Solid Flesh: An Interview-Collage with Judith Supine
My friends in Detroit are obsessed with list-making. They’ve all been on the hunt for personalized license plates of late, exclaiming “BB Benz” or…
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An Always Fractured Order: Hal Foster’s Unromantic Avant-Garde
There is a small historical irony in the topic of Hal Foster’s lecture for the 67th A.W. Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of…
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The Trouble with Occupying Others: Althea Thauberger Confronts the Violence of the Archive
Gazing out from a large photograph on the second floor of Susan Hobbs Gallery in Toronto, Althea Thauberger wears a yellow dress, pearl earrings,…
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Worst-Case Scenarios: Contemporary Art’s #Metoo Handwringing
Like most grassroots movements borne of slow-simmering anger and long-standing frustration, #MeToo is both overdue and messy as hell. Its faint whiff of anarchy…
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Painting “From Here”: Susanna Heller at Olga Korper
Whatever specificity of place can be found in Susanna Heller’s paintings at Olga Korper Gallery shimmers with Wallace Stevens’s line, “Description is revelation. It…
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Naming “Where is Here”: Ed Zelenak at Christopher Cutts
One of the pleasures of Ed Zelenak’s decades-long practice is its resistance to easy narrative. And yet, as John Bentley Mays wrote in 2015,…
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America Meredith, Lori Blondeau, and Raven Chacon Remember James Luna (1950-2018)
March 9, 2018 America Meredith Shockwaves shot through the Native artworld with the sad news that James Luna (Pooyukitchchum-Ipai-Mexican-American) had walked on. He…
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“More Than Those Who Despised Her”: Unforgetting on the Prairies
How can – how should – the ghosts of our brutalized bodies be ushered into public space? This was the enigma posed by Gregory…
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The Hopeful Phantasmagoria of “The Museum Took a Few Minutes to Collect Itself”
For the 1970 exhibition Raid the Icebox at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Andy Warhol pulled hidden treasures from storage. He included…
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No Measure of Health: Ilona Sagar Scans the Politics of Wellbeing
The word “health” is contaminated with sickness. It contains within it a negation: of disease, or illness. Routinely, we only begin to understand our…
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