We’re Alive, Pablo Is Dead
Pablo Picasso is so famous and so ubiquitous and so dead that he is easy not to think about at all. It’s as though…
Read MorePablo Picasso is so famous and so ubiquitous and so dead that he is easy not to think about at all. It’s as though…
Read MoreAmong the works installed by Manuel Axel Strain in Unit 17’s florist turned gallery space were: A stolen white-picket fence hemmed in by a…
Read MoreThe first time I visited Laboratorio Arte Alameda (LAA), a house of creative electronic experimentation in the heart of Mexico City, I didn’t know…
Read MoreMy childhood home in California is filled with antiques. Fragile Han Dynasty ceramics, dirt-encrusted Chinese Buddhist sculptures, various porcelain, lacquer boxes, and snuff bottles…
Read MoreJune Clark’s Tubman (2023) is a large, mixed-media sculpture that captivates a glance immediately. Vertical strips of red, blue, and white yarn are bound…
Read MoreAnd, like the world, a lunatic asylum is a mosaic of the passions. —An asylum doctor in the Sarthe, 1837 Upon discovering an illness,…
Read MoreI arrived at the 14th Gwangju Biennale intrigued but skeptical about its goals. This year’s title is Soft and Weak Like Water, an aphorism…
Read MoreThe UK-based and Toronto-born Athena Papadopoulos created the sculptures for her recent exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (MOCA), her first institutional…
Read MoreIn an interview about her 2003 performance Untitled, in which she had sex with an art collector on camera for a sum initially reported…
Read MoreI remember the day I first attempted to get my Aadhaar identification card made ten years ago. Every resident in my housing complex had…
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