Against Tidy Memory: Anti-Fascist Memorials and the Horror of Kitsch
Like a catchy Schlager tune, rightwing populism in Germany has matured into a countrywide plague. Historical guilt, which had until recently stalled the nationalism…
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Everybody Knows: Prada Foundation’s Stylish Cynicism
The last time Leonard Cohen appeared on her radio show in 2006, Fresh Air host Terry Gross told him she wanted to play “one…
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Privilege as Political Tool: Tania Bruguera on the Usefulness of Art
Because the question of art’s utility isn’t new, Tania Bruguera, the Cuban artist who’s often been referred to as a “dissident” and “political activist,”…
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Palpable Urgency and Understated Ecology: Latvia’s “Survival Kit 9”
Remember that chunk of the Antarctic that fell into the sea, earlier this year? How big was it? Three trillion tons? Three hundred miles?…
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Joseph Tisiga Unsettles Exoticism with Mythic Force at Parisian Laundry
Joseph Tisiga paints people in odd situations, and I keep wondering, how do they feel? The Yukon artist’s characters rarely show much emotion, even…
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“Pacific Standard Time” Writes Overlooked Chicano Artists Back Into Art History
On a Monday morning in May 2015, artist David Avalos stood on the stage of a packed auditorium at the Getty Center in Los…
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How (Not) To Retrospect: Beverly Buchanan in Brooklyn and Georgia
It’s unfortunate, but not surprising, that critical attention and institutional acceptance usually arrives too late to the work of women artists and artists of…
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Real Bodies: A Tribute to Linda Nochlin
In the summer of 1994, the end of my second year at the IFA and Linda Nochlin’s first, she came to stay with my…
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Risking Pop-Solipsism, Moyra Davey Gets Earnest in Berlin
A few weeks back, as autumn arrived to Berlin, I listened to a thirty year-old curator explain that she was leaving art to study…
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Seeking a More Intimate Fair with /edition’s Paul Butler
Toronto’s /edition art-book fair arrives, in its sophomore year, at an energizing time for art publishing. The event drew over 8,000 visitors last year…
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