Palpable Urgency and Understated Ecology: Latvia’s “Survival Kit 9”
Remember that chunk of the Antarctic that fell into the sea, earlier this year? How big was it? Three trillion tons? Three hundred miles?…
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Joseph Tisiga Unsettles Exoticism with Mythic Force at Parisian Laundry
Joseph Tisiga paints people in odd situations, and I keep wondering, how do they feel? The Yukon artist’s characters rarely show much emotion, even…
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“Pacific Standard Time” Writes Overlooked Chicano Artists Back Into Art History
On a Monday morning in May 2015, artist David Avalos stood on the stage of a packed auditorium at the Getty Center in Los…
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How (Not) To Retrospect: Beverly Buchanan in Brooklyn and Georgia
It’s unfortunate, but not surprising, that critical attention and institutional acceptance usually arrives too late to the work of women artists and artists of…
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Risking Pop-Solipsism, Moyra Davey Gets Earnest in Berlin
A few weeks back, as autumn arrived to Berlin, I listened to a thirty year-old curator explain that she was leaving art to study…
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Remnant Intuition: Contemporary Turns on the Grace of Still Life
“We reason, that is, our mind wanders, each time our courage fails to force us to pursue an intuition through all the successive stages…
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White Like Me: Encountering Divya Mehra’s “You have to tell Them, i’m not a Racist”
It doesn’t matter what you think you know about Divya Mehra’s You have to tell Them, i’m not a Racist, currently at Georgia Scherman…
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The Strangeness of the Everyday: Skulptur Projekte Münster’s Deep Grey
Not an auspicious start. I stood under the regularly irregular German rain in front of one of Skulptur Projekte’s posters, annoyed by what might…
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Do Androids Dream of Representative Art?
“The closer we come to the danger, the more brightly do the ways into the saving power begin to shine and the more questioning…
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Fake News, Bad Art
When the Oxford English Dictionary announced that its 2016 Word of the Year was post-truth, the understanding was that the political upheavals of the…
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