The Lips of a Wound: Reflections on Doris Salcedo
Suture: A joining of the lips or edges of a wound or the like by stitching. The unexpectedly sensuous definition of the clinical term “stitching”…
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Nothing in These Works is Given Freely: The Phenomenological Approach of Frank Auerbach
“I think all good painting looks as though the painting has escaped from the thicket of prepared positions and has entered some sort of…
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A Prismatic Picture of Colombian Street Culture in Jorge Lozano’s Experimental Films
I see the use of multiple screens as a device to speed up the narrative flow in film, to conceptually give sequences (loops) momentary…
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These Are Not Ideas; These Are Things: A Conversation with Liz Magor
Liz Magor claims her “space between the mould and the cast.” It’s a pronouncement reified by thirty years of installation and sculpture that reads…
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The Future of Online Arts Publishing: A Roundtable with artnet News, Momus, and Temporary Art Review
Everything about publishing is changing, including art criticism and news. What sort of art coverage we consume, how we consume it, and on what…
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Cohering His Compulsions: Ken Nicol Advances at Olga Korper
Over five years, from 1992 to 1997, Tom Friedman produced 1000 Hours of Staring, a work of pure intention and immaculate material. A blank…
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How to Read an Art Magazine
Most people don’t. Picture in your head an issue of the most important art magazine in the world: its circulation is less than the…
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Why We Photograph
For reasons good, and some of little consequence, and a few terrible, indeed shattering, I’ve been to more cities in the last year than…
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Public Art Has to Be Art First and Public Second: A Conversation with Stuart Reid on Union Station
Toronto recently saw Union Station’s protracted and over-budget revitalization project achieve one of its first clear signs of completion, an expansive public art installation…
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Helen Molesworth Upends the Permanent Hang at MOCA LA
Ruth Asawa spent the summer of 1948 making buttermilk for her teachers, Josef and Anni Albers, in Asheville, North Carolina. She was enrolled at…
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