What Is an Art Fair Doing Asking “What Is To Be Done?”
Tented within Manhattan’s industrial piers, and under a cold sweep of wind, the Armory Art Fair rounded out its latest edition (under new director,…
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As Both Dancer and Texter: Julien Prévieux Choreographs Our Changing Bodies
Someone once told me that humans are evolving more flexible thumbs due to our growing propensity for text messaging. I know that this is…
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“A Self-Implicated Search”: Reviewing Robert Linsley’s Final Book
At an artist talk several years ago, I asked Robert Linsley to explain why artworks should be treated as human beings. Seemingly embarrassed, he…
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The Pulsing Body Wants of Jasmine Reimer
Like teeth crowding a dark mouth, Jasmine Reimer’s Small Obstructions pushes crude objects up through a dusky space – and then pocks them with…
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How Do We Decolonize Desire? Evelyn Taocheng Wang Massages Difficult Truths at Château Shatto
There is very little consent to be found, for example, in the fact that Flaubert’s encounter with an Egyptian courtesan produced a widely influential…
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With the Logic of Vegas, the Seduction of Art: Hadar Kleiman’s Cheap Desirability in San Francisco
Hadar Kleiman’s brainy, seductive solo show at R/SF Projects in San Francisco reproduces sites of pure consumerism in a playful, complicit kind of late-capitalist…
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Where the Party Is: Mark Leckey’s Vernacular, Autobiographical Tour Through Pop
My personal experience [is that] intranational tourism is radically constricting, and humbling in the hardest way – hostile to my fantasy of being a…
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Interrupting Business as Usual: A Close Reading of MoMA’s Muslim Ban Intervention
New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) recently rehung its prized Modern galleries, swapping out works by greats like Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso for…
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Cassils and the Complicated Rhetoric of the Hero
I used to have a student called Sarah Kench. Older than her peers, she was already in her 30s when she started at Syracuse…
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Drones, by Design: Mahwish Chishty and the Politics of Representation
What’s at stake – aesthetically and politically – when we imagine the drone as an emblem for contemporary society? Consider the range of artistic…
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