Nonsense! She Said: Marvin Gaye Chetwynd Pantomimes Politics in Paris
The bad news is Brexit. The good news (other than the recent British election) is that British humor, of the nonsense variety, is alive…
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Wu Tsang, Eileen Myles, and Me: Reading Zoe Leonard’s “I Want a President”
Recent art writing has been marked by a compulsion to cast every subject against an unfolding political crisis. Press releases, reviews, and essays implore…
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Sound/Off: Uneasy Listening at documenta 14 in Kassel
International art gatherings are loud affairs, and a trip through documenta 14 in Kassel rewards an ability to separate signal from noise. In a…
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“All Awareness Becomes Base”: Jens Hoffmann’s Reduction of The Arcades Project
“What, then, is the aura? A strange tissue of space and time: the unique apparition of a distance, however near it may be. To…
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The Abject Intimacies of Chris Curreri
I would like to be like water or rather like milk – completely pourable am right now more like stone but like sand or…
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The Center Holds: Bruce High Quality Foundation’s Accidental Gulf Nativism
Every first of May, as people around the world take to the streets to commemorate labor struggles, members of France’s Front National party (FN)…
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A Parasitic ‘joie de vivre’ in “Viva Arte Viva”
When a curator chooses a title as desperately bubbly as Viva Arte Viva, something is clearly amiss. “Live art live!” – the 57th Venice…
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Invasiveness and Indigeneity: Alicia Escott’s Complicit Critique
An iconography of flora and fauna local to the Sunset District of San Francisco administers a powerful critique, in Alicia Escott’s current exhibition. Using…
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What Happened to the Anthropocene? Searching the 57th Venice Biennale for Signs of Destruction
There’s no greater risk to our species than the one posed by humankind’s impact on the environment. It’s unnerving how familiar this adage has…
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“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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