The Whitney’s Triumphant New Museum is Worrying For Art
Today, the new Whitney Museum of American Art opens its broad gates to the masses. If New York’s museum competition were a horserace, Renzo Piano’s appealing and thoughtful…
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The Troubling Thrill of Invernomuto’s Counter-Ritual
Invernomuto is an Italian duo who bring an uneasy postcolonial funk to contemporary art, somehow managing to capture the over-the-top brio of, say, dub…
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The Suffering Body of 1993: Whatever Happened to the “Abject”
The best way to fuck something up is to give it a body. A voice is killed when it is given a body. Whenever…
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Parsing Re-Performance and Institutional Critique in the Choreography of Sasha Kleinplatz
what about doing the same piece for the rest of your life in different iterations? Chorus II as a work for children? as solo?…
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Valérie Blass Is Both Accessible and Locked-Up in “My Life”
In the movies, we are accustomed to watching the main character navigate the edges of a party, fall into a moment of introspection, receding…
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In “Martin Wong: Painting is Forbidden,” the Wattis Institute Largely Sidesteps Painting
“Basically everything I paint is in my immediate neighborhood, where I ended up,” Martin Wong said in a lecture in 1991. “So, people assume…
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Interview: Stephen Bulger Reflects on Twenty Years of Missteps, Success, and Advancing Form in Photography
Photography gallerist Stephen Bulger (b. 1964) is celebrating a significant anniversary after steadily and concertedly contributing to the international market’s appreciation of photography’s position in…
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Hito Steyerl’s Nexus of Money, Violence, and Art
Enter the Greene Street location of Artists Space and the voice of martial artist Bruce Lee will greet you. “Empty your mind,” Lee instructs,…
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Interview: Curator Christopher Eamon Troubles the Shifting Form (and Relevance) of Photography
Early in its trajectory, independent curator and writer Christopher Eamon distinguished himself in the field of moving-image media and photography, and asserted its knock-kneed…
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Seeing Red: Understanding Kazuo Shiraga’s Sudden Fame
In recent years, the reputation of postwar abstract painter Kazuo Shiraga (1924-2008) – known for turbulent, crimson paintings made with his feet – has…
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