Maria Hupfield Returns to the Beginning
Maria Hupfield is a Brooklyn-based artist from Wasauksing First Nation, an Anishinabek community on Parry Island, five hours north of Toronto along Georgian Bay….
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Dubious Icons: Godheads, Messiahs, and the Artist as Celebrity
Perhaps it’s an unfair caricature of MFA students, that each appears to inhabit their own personalized reality TV show. Perhaps. But having been one…
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“Afrogallonism” Takes Dubai: South-South Solidarity and the Urge to Exoticize
Yellow’s a strange cornstarch slurry of a word, one that quickly gets thick on the tongue and loses all meaning. Its symbolism oscillates wildly,…
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From Artworld Punchline to Real-World Parable: Ruben Östlund’s “The Square”
The degree to which contemporary culture understands (or fails to understand) “The Art World” can be measured in how it gets portrayed in film…
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Freeing Latin American Art from Eurocentric Curating
A dense black explosion looms, static in the museum’s center. Nuclear Fungus (2007), by Argentinean artist León Ferrari, sculpturally simulates the smoke caused by…
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Mourning at the Museum: Montreal’s Post-Sincere Send-Off for Leonard Cohen
The impulse to grieve publicly is a measure of our turbulent times. We know, lately, the need to share a collective sadness. However, before…
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Crocodile Tears: Ed Atkins and the Crisis of Pathetic Masculinity
Type “Ed Atkins” into Google, and you’ll shortly come face to face with an asshole: not the artist himself – though his smiling visage…
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Does the Sublime Know Change? Updating Landscape for the Anthropocene
The notion that we live in the Anthropocene, an era defined by human influence on our planet, bestows a new gravity upon representations of…
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Darkling Futures and Desert Hangover at the New SITE Sante Fe
Two brand-new, chunky metal triangles jut out and join above the glassy entrance of the black cinderblock edifice that houses the recently-renovated SITE Santa…
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Everybody Knows: Prada Foundation’s Stylish Cynicism
The last time Leonard Cohen appeared on her radio show in 2006, Fresh Air host Terry Gross told him she wanted to play “one…
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