The Intimate Dangers of Reading Georgia O’Keeffe Through a Blouse
Any description of the new traveling Georgia O’Keeffe exhibit Living Modern must start with a blouse. On a hanger in the middle of the…
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“Made in Germany”: Can the Artworld Have a Nation?
Like exotic flowers, international art exhibitions bloom in Berlin, Kassel, and Münster every two, five, or ten years, helping to establish Germany, alongside Venice,…
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Courting Crisis: Condescension, Disaster Tourism, and “Learning from Athens”
The pedagogical framework espoused by the title of this year’s two-city, quinquennial documenta – Learning from Athens – preemptively suggests an ethnographic or neocolonial…
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White Space, Black Spectacle at MASS MoCA
On May 28, 2017, MASS MoCA inaugurated its new Building 6, doubling its existing gallery space and turning the 16-acre complex of abandoned, 19th-century…
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Nonsense! She Said: Marvin Gaye Chetwynd Pantomimes Politics in Paris
The bad news is Brexit. The good news (other than the recent British election) is that British humor, of the nonsense variety, is alive…
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Wu Tsang, Eileen Myles, and Me: Reading Zoe Leonard’s “I Want a President”
Recent art writing has been marked by a compulsion to cast every subject against an unfolding political crisis. Press releases, reviews, and essays implore…
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Sound/Off: Uneasy Listening at documenta 14 in Kassel
International art gatherings are loud affairs, and a trip through documenta 14 in Kassel rewards an ability to separate signal from noise. In a…
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“All Awareness Becomes Base”: Jens Hoffmann’s Reduction of The Arcades Project
“What, then, is the aura? A strange tissue of space and time: the unique apparition of a distance, however near it may be. To…
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The Abject Intimacies of Chris Curreri
I would like to be like water or rather like milk – completely pourable am right now more like stone but like sand or…
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The Center Holds: Bruce High Quality Foundation’s Accidental Gulf Nativism
Every first of May, as people around the world take to the streets to commemorate labor struggles, members of France’s Front National party (FN)…
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