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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The Alchemist: A Studio Visit with Sadie Weis
It is often said of desks and other work spaces that their appearance mirrors the mind of the person who uses said spaces –…
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Tools for Redress: A Century of Political Art Between “Zero Tolerance” and “The Left Front”
In the fall of 1929, the same month as the collapse of the American stock market, editors from the leftist magazine New Masses met…
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“I Don’t Give a Shit About Authenticity”: Sholem Krishtalka Performs His Reveal in “A Berlin Diary”
The Schmidt & Handrup Berlin gallery is a bare white rectangle illuminated by tall spotless casement windows trimmed in matching chalk white. Thin bald…
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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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