Branding the Anthropocene: Canada’s Art Institutions Privilege the Artificial
Anthropocene – the wide-reaching exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) – tackles perhaps the greatest…
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Homage to Oneself: Julian Schnabel Interprets the Musée d’Orsay
Imagine … imagine being invited by the Musée d’Orsay to interpret its magnificent collection while also including your own artwork in an exhibition of…
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The Curtain’s Part: Confronting Abstraction’s Complacency in Unquiet Times
Neil Wedman’s Spotlights, on view at Vancouver’s Equinox Gallery, fills the exhibition space with ten canvases depicting the concentrated shine of a spotlight on…
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Archeology and Ambivalence at Austria’s Steirischer Herbst Festival
One morning in Graz, a woman carries a large portrait of Adolf Hitler on a bus through the center of the city. It’s an…
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Unsettling Borders: The “Greater West” Recolonized
In Anchorage, Alaska, a starry museum exhibition with decolonial aims baits an easy celebration; it’s tempting, if somewhat patronizing, to view the existence of…
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An Exhibit in an Email: Vimeo Links, PR, and Posturing by Proxy
The night is dark and full of texture. And somewhere, over an indeterminate stretch of inky sea, the sky is lit up with red…
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Now More Than Ever: Sarah Lucas’s Provocations, Renewed
When New Museum director Lisa Phillips addressed the small crowd – women, mostly – gathered in the lobby last week for the press preview…
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Pinning Whiteness to the Wall: The Violent Theater of Rosalind Fox Solomon
There’s nothing I love more than a feminist killjoy, and in Liberty Theater, Rosalind Fox Solomon just might ruin your day. This solo exhibition…
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A Study in American Denial: David Wojnarowicz’s Return to the Piers
In 1991, the year before he died from AIDS, David Wojnarowicz asked his friend and occasional collaborator, Marion Scemana, to accompany him on one…
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Carolee Schneemann’s Ethics of Eros
Amid a surging wave of political activism and newly liberated energies, Carolee Schneemann wrote, in 1968, that “perception should lead to action.” Schneemann suspected…
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