What Kind of Criticism Do We Need Now? Coming to Terms with Teju Cole’s “Known and Strange Things”
“We look at them for the way they cooperate with the imagination, the way they contain what cannot otherwise be accommodated, and the…
Read More“We look at them for the way they cooperate with the imagination, the way they contain what cannot otherwise be accommodated, and the…
Read MoreFor months, a Times article about Julius Eastman accrued dust in my New Jersey apartment. It sat dormant within an increasingly oppressive stack of back issues,…
Read MoreNothing is more frightening than not knowing where you’re going, but then again nothing can be more satisfying than finding you’ve arrived somewhere without…
Read MoreSomeone once told me that humans are evolving more flexible thumbs due to our growing propensity for text messaging. I know that this is…
Read MoreAt an artist talk several years ago, I asked Robert Linsley to explain why artworks should be treated as human beings. Seemingly embarrassed, he…
Read MoreLike teeth crowding a dark mouth, Jasmine Reimer’s Small Obstructions pushes crude objects up through a dusky space – and then pocks them with…
Read MoreThere is very little consent to be found, for example, in the fact that Flaubert’s encounter with an Egyptian courtesan produced a widely influential…
Read MoreHadar Kleiman’s brainy, seductive solo show at R/SF Projects in San Francisco reproduces sites of pure consumerism in a playful, complicit kind of late-capitalist…
Read MoreMy personal experience [is that] intranational tourism is radically constricting, and humbling in the hardest way – hostile to my fantasy of being a…
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