A.L. Steiner’s Personal Archive: Underground Heroes, Everyday Lovers, and Global Catastrophe
Underground heroes. I’ve had many. Some of them I stole from the high shelves and long racks of chain bookshops. Novels and art catalogues,…
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The Outsider That Invites Us In: Jordan Maclachlan’s “Ways of Living”
The fantastical meets the hackneyed in Jordan Maclachlan’s expansive Ways of Living, a detailed menagerie of other-worldly creatures, animals, and humans, too. The clay figures that…
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Grey Skies Over Melancholy Bay: Creative Antagonism and Cultural Preservation on the West Coast
A call for action rang out in Vancouver this spring when members of the art community rallied together and voiced opposition to the sited…
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Nothing is Absolute: The Fairy-Winged Failure of “Absolute Beauty: Neoacademicism in Saint Petersburg”
Absolute Beauty’s curators Ekaterina Andreeva and Andrei Khlobystin have tasked themselves with an unsolvable puzzle: how to capture, in a medium-sized exhibition with limited…
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What Gets Revealed When Iris Häussler Finally Owns Her Name
It’s not easy to write about Iris Häussler. I’ve been avoiding it, though desiring it, since her daring He Named Her Amber (2008) subsumed the…
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Inside My Head: An Interview with Glenn Ligon
American artist Glenn Ligón is bringing together artworks spanning decades, continents, and themes that closely relate to his work with race and gender in post-war America….
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Bodies Beholden: The Changed Corporeality of David Salle’s New Paintings
In a 2008 commercial for the Swiffer SweeperVac, a conservatively clad woman weaves back and forth with the futuristic device, apparently engaged in an…
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On the Subtle Joy of Agnes Martin
Agnes Martin began her lecture at Yale University with a deep breath … slowly, in and out. It was the mid-1970s, and Martin (1912–2004) was…
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Are Sex Differences Getting in the Way?: The Limits of Gender-Based Curating
Dear Dick, I’m wondering why every act that narrated female lived experience in the ‘70s has been read only as “collaboration” and “feminist.” The…
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The Meaning Behind the Merger of ARTnews and Art in America
It’s a media cliché that more has changed in the last ten years in journalism than in the century before that. Yesterday’s big news…
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