Ways of Seeing John Berger, in Two Recent Documentaries
“It’s in hell where solidarity is important, not in heaven.” – John Berger, Seasons in Quincy Media veracity, it seems clear, has dissolved into…
Read More“It’s in hell where solidarity is important, not in heaven.” – John Berger, Seasons in Quincy Media veracity, it seems clear, has dissolved into…
Read More“And why is this dedicated to Michael Jackson?” journalist Randy Kennedy asked Isa Genzken last February as both sat on a stage at the…
Read MoreSara Cwynar is just young enough to speak the mother-tongue of post-photography. Certainly her work assumes the dimensionality of an exploded medium and exercises…
Read MoreHair flicks, flirtatious glances, side eye. Hands beckoning and clapping, a finger wagging in rebuke. Body language is highlighted in Borrowed Lady, an exhibition…
Read MoreIn the aftermath of Donald Trump’s nauseating election victory, hard on the heels of this year’s earlier Brexit vote in the UK, it has…
Read MoreNormal science, wrote Thomas Kuhn, is the way most scientists spend their time: the quotidian task of theorizing, observing, experimenting – puzzle solving, in…
Read MoreThe past vexes us. Longing to feel connected to it, those with money tour the world’s ancient ruins searching antediluvian kin. Meanwhile in Eurocentric contemporary…
Read MoreTouted as “a new immersive work,” Theaster Gates‘s first museum solo exhibition – self-knowingly titled How to Build a House Museum, and recently on show…
Read MoreBy asking what art “does,” the curators of the eleventh Gwangju Biennale betray a palpable anxiety about whether the field in which we work…
Read MoreI spend most of my life on the internet. I work here, I entertain myself here; I distract, delay, advance, compose, and channel myself…
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