
“You Took, Took, Took”: Alanis Obomsawin’s Work is Never Finished
In 1969, the young Abenaki singer and activist Alanis Obomsawin, newly hired as a consultant at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), took…
Read MoreIn 1969, the young Abenaki singer and activist Alanis Obomsawin, newly hired as a consultant at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), took…
Read More“It is worth wondering, perhaps, what the wishes are in kissing,” Adam Phillips writes. In his readings of Freud, Phillips suggests that a kiss…
Read MoreNear the end of the definitive, long-overdue survey of the artist Marisol at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, after a parade of totemic sculptural…
Read More“Time is more than a container; time participates.” —Susan Rethorst, A Choreographic Mind I often enter retrospectives with a certain girding of the…
Read MoreLike most other instruments of empire used to chart our world, the international prime meridian is an invisible, regnant force. A product of colonial…
Read MoreAcross fourteen photographs, clothes strewn in a moment of passion transfigure into lasting compositions. Empty shoes perch and keel over, bra straps lie tangled,…
Read MoreSnailing (Slippy slimy slug slut), the first solo institutional show in New York by Anne Duk Hee Jordan, features an immersive installation that explores…
Read MoreUrsula Biemann has been challenging, and excavating, how knowledge is produced for thirty years now, but in the past decade she has turned her…
Read MoreThe whirring motor sound emanates from an unusual contraption. A linear aluminum-rail system is attached to the wall, a vertical glint of silver adrift…
Read MoreDid you ever cheat on a test when you were in school? I didn’t. I was afraid of getting caught and lacked the ingenuity…
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