Retrospective: Pollock in LIFE
Journalists follow a time-tested format. An example of this occurs in what is perhaps the most important article about art published in any magazine,…
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Girls Gone Viral: Anicka Yi’s Pathological Feminism
Pathological feminism – the premise informing Anicka Yi’s current exhibition at The Kitchen in New York – is perversely seductive. Yi, the show’s press…
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Interview: The Difficulty in Distilling Suzy Lake
Suzy Lake occupies a unique position in contemporary art history, having both helmed and contributed to the advent and advancement of at least three…
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Is the iPhone a Blessing or a Curse for Art?
In 1951, Hans Namuth first published his photos of Jackson Pollock at work. They were meant as documents of the famed artist’s process. But…
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Aiming to Please: Division Gallery Surveys Post-Internet Entertainment
In the year 2000, curator Phillippe Vergne staged an exhibition at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis titled Let’s Entertain: Life’s Guilty Pleasures. It…
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The Anxiety of Influence: Jack Bush at the National Gallery
“I feel sorry for Jack Bush,” said an artist acquaintance of mine when I told him about the National Gallery of Canada’s recent, excellent…
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Interview: Venice Biennale Curator Okwui Enwezor On “All the World’s Futures” and the Angel of History
During the London presentation of the 56th Venice Biennale, “All the World’s Futures,” curator Okwui Enwezor talked a lot about the past. H referenced…
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“What Instruments Have We?”: A Conversation with Emily Roysdon
“1. I believe in an alchemy of time. That a certain combination of words, a length of inaction, a discomposed room, or with some…
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MoMA “Steps on a Nail” with Bad Björk Show
There has been an immense volcano building up under the Museum of Modern Art for some time, a well of rage from old-school art…
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The Deadening Gaze of Tal R
Most things, if and when they return from the dead, are dried-out and stiff. However when several outmoded artistic styles turn up in the…
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