Chinese Futures for American Eyes at the Guggenheim
In a 1998 New York Times book review, American historian Stephen Greenblatt recalled gazing, as a youth, at the landscapes on the Chinese wallpaper…
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Behind the Curtain: Beatriz González’s Political-Decorative Art
A familiar scene: two dandies basking in a casual lunch on the grass, immersed in delightful parlay, accompanied by a completely naked woman in…
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Cruising for Sex in the Garden of Eden: Architecture and Desire in Venice
One of the major thoroughfares in the Venetian lagoon, the Bacino di San Marco, is host to a swelling, seasonal parade of cruise ships…
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Me For You: The Modest Directives of Ho Tam and Rainer Ganahl
Remember the “long tail”? It was the theory that digital technology would redistribute demand for cultural products, away from a few empowered hit-makers and…
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“Whitewalling,” Mishearing, and Translating Protest
Speech often fails when America talks to itself about race, about dissent, about protest, inequality, or exclusion. Those in positions to manifest systemic change…
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An Open Door, By the Lake: Nadia Belerique Advances Her Symbolism
A gift embedded in the trip to leafy, tony Oakville Galleries (a half-hour train ride from Toronto) is the moment you give yourself by…
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Touch, Desire, and the Trinket Box: Celia Perrin Sidarous Shifts Time
Celia Perrin Sidarous’s second solo exhibition at Montreal’s Parisian Laundry was suffused with a sense of authority and sobriety that feels new in her…
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Are We Being Preached To? Adrian Piper’s Prompts at the MoMA
Adrian Piper’s artistic statements reject a moralizing approach. “I try for simplicity, not simplification. I don’t want to make prescriptions about what people should…
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Nick Mauss’s Continental Divide
Nick Mauss is a fan of verre eglomisé, or “distressed hand-gilded mirror,” a phrase that sounds very European, and very gay. The artist takes…
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Irreligious Icons: Superficial Heresy at the Met
Three days before the opening of the Met Costume Institute’s Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, the Museum held its annual gala. Those…
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