Our Mutual Desire for Critical Change: Momus and Feature Art Fair
In Venice, last spring, over the requisite Spritz, I met with the London and New York-based critic Orit Gat to discuss the possibility of…
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The Spinning “YOLO” Sympathies of Sandra Meigs
An early critique I received as an artist was in jury feedback for an unsuccessful grant application: “why does this work need to be…
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Interview: The Compressed Violence of Dana Schutz
When I meet Dana Schutz amidst the clash and clatter of the installation of her solo mid-career survey at the Musée d’art contemporain de…
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How To Follow Your Own Success: Kristiina Lahde at MKG127
Six months ago, Kristiina Lahde created her own toughest act to follow. Her solo exhibition, Ultra-Parallel, held at the Koffler Centre of the Arts in…
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A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Professional: Joseph Hartman’s Artist Studios
The artist’s studio has long been a beloved subject for art, one nearing art itself. What attracts us to it? What is the quale,…
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Interview: Kalup Linzy In Between Acting and Performing
Commenting on a creative relationship that was at the beginning of its end, a 2011 New York Times article quoted Hyperallergic editor-in-chief Hrag Vartanian…
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Robert Rauschenberg and Rachel Harrison Mirror Media and More Across Time
In 1970, a powerful bomb detonated Rodin’s Thinker (1880-81) outside the Cleveland Museum of Art. This edition of the sculpture was a rare version of the existing 25…
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All That Is Solid …: Alex McLeod Taps the Cult of the Canadian Sublime and Explodes the Digital
Alex McLeod’s most recent solo exhibition – his first at Division Gallery in Toronto – is aptly titled HONEYMOON, featuring a unique formal marriage…
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A New Level of Anxiety in Derek Liddington
After seeing Derek Liddington’s solo show at aka artist-run in Saskatoon, I immediately went home to reread the first article I wrote on his…
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Slowing Down Perception: “are you experienced?” Tries to Affect the White Cube
Both experienced and inexperienced gallery visitors are familiar with the standardized formula of spectatorship: Each artwork is treated as a discrete, enclosed structure containing…
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