What Should Art “Do”? The Eccentrics’ Vital Nonsense in a Time of Crisis
What should artists do in a time of crisis? This grave question haunted the avant-garde movements of the early twentieth-century. In the wake of…
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In Search of Himself: Sky Glabush’s Mimetic Practice Drifts Into the Neo-Modernist Trend
“Artists don’t own the meaning of their work.” New York Times critic Roberta Smith issued this controversial and affecting line to a full auditorium…
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Hold Still: A History of Performing for the Camera from Nadar to the Selfie
The most famous performance photograph of all time must be the one known as Saut dans le vide (Leap into the Void), showing the…
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Emergence and Ruin in Carol Wainio
Carol Wainio is a wonderful and troubling painter. For decades, a constant inventiveness in the ways of handling paint, of creating figures and spaces, has…
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Does the Right Hand Cover for the Left?: The Case of the Remai Modern and Its Errant Board
I take no pleasure in realizing the unpleasant aspects of something I’d otherwise be very proud of. In this case, the object of pride…
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The State of the Artworld, Explained
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan is opening its new contemporary art initiative, taking over the old Whitney Museum of American Art’s building…
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To Cloak or Reveal: Ryan Gander on the Question That Dogs Him
At the end of our interview Ryan Gander is suggesting we meet again, “Same time next week?” He’s laughing. I’ve involuntarily submitted myself to…
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The Art of Protest
The relationship between art and protest has never been a stable one. It’s also a relation that perhaps suffers from being posed in the…
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“I Think We’re Changing Into a Tribal Nation”: A Conversation with Dave Hickey on “25 Women”
When you have as many critics as Dave Hickey, you don’t hope to publish a book quietly so much as attract the right kind…
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The Sadean Woman: Tricia Middleton and the Violence of Art
Tricia Middleton came late to showing in commercial galleries. In a career spanning fifteen years, her late-2014 exhibition at Jessica Bradley Gallery in Toronto…
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