“Science Truth” and Fearless Feminism in Lynn Hershman Leeson’s “Civic Radar”
Recently, I woke up with a bump on my pinkie finger. I thought it was an insect bite. After a few days, I realized…
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Gallerist Virginia Dwan, the Reluctant Legend
“Any ideas of art history or significance were forgotten,” wrote gallerist Virginia Dwan in 1990, remembering the first time she saw one of Yves…
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Modernist Frederick Kiesler is “Rediscovered” Between Abstraction and Compromise
In 1990, Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz was a wasteland. German partition had sent the square back in time, making space for “The City of the…
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The Inevitable Cannibalization of Institutional Critique: Surveying Michael Asher and Christopher D’Arcangelo in L.A.
Emma Goldman described anarchism as “a living force in the affairs of our life, constantly creating new conditions,” refusing a “theory of the future…
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Hannah Black Transcends the Dana Schutz Controversy with a Slow-Burn MoMA PS1 Performance
The beautiful weather and the Spring Open House invitation – highlighting some new and promising exhibitions featuring works by Ian Cheng, Maureen Gallace, and Tomáš…
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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…
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Stay on It: Maintaining Julius Eastman’s Radical Desire
For 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,…
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Where the Bodies Go: Lili Huston-Herterich’s Poem to the Power of Community
Forcing the Fortuitous: Tacita Dean Searches for Luck
Nothing 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…
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As Both Dancer and Texter: Julien Prévieux Choreographs Our Changing Bodies
Someone once told me that humans are evolving more flexible thumbs due to our growing propensity for text messaging. I know that this is…
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