“Liberation and Consumption”: Surveying Korean Art in the ’90s
It’s intimidating to absorb an institutional exhibition that spans a decade of a nation’s art scene, especially as an outsider. So a natural point…
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Feeling Good, Feeling Bad: The Self-Help Vibrations of Patrick Howlett
After Trump was elected, the first photo I posted to Instagram was a view of glass baubles foregrounding yellow leaves and blue sky between…
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The Portent in Exhibiting Robert Mapplethorpe: What Can He Mean to Us Now?
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts can’t send me Robert Mapplethorpe’s most explicit and notorious photographs, despite exhibiting them. It doesn’t have the copyright…
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The Atmospheric Pressure in “Reading” Barbara Bloom
Is there a color more indexical of melancholy than blue-grey? It is the color of fog, the color of nature suffused with an intelligence;…
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Her Sex and Her Medium Exploded: Coming to Terms with Pipilotti Rist
A woman strides down the sidewalk in anarchic ecstasy, smashing one car window after another with an oversized red flower. The sound of glass…
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Grieving in L.A.
My first trip to Los Angeles started ten days after an election that diminished our assurance in something like a common good. I booked…
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The Material Undoings of Kelly Lycan
During a month of dispiriting world news, the work first struck me as a room in mourning: an emptiness indifferent to being filled. White…
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“If I Ventured in the Slipstream”: Tamara Henderson’s Nomadic Encampment at REDCAT
If I ventured in the slipstream Between the viaducts of your dream Where immobile steel rims crack And the ditch in the back roads…
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An Allegory for an Absconded Modernity: Claudio Correa’s Brigantine Signals Chile’s Speculative Present
Physically light, Libertad, Igualdad, Fatalidad (2016) is not underweight on ambition or conceptual ballast. Its creator, Chilean artist Claudio Correa, installed a real-scale brigantine…
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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…
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