Towards the Profane: Mierle Laderman Ukeles Exercises Her “Maintenance” at Queens Museum
The Queens Museum is devoting more space than it has ever given over to a single artist to survey the career of Mierle Laderman…
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Mark Ruwedel’s Desert History, as Fugitive Present
“I’ll show you fear in a handful of dust.” – T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland …
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Simone Leigh’s Powerful Meditation on Race and Healthcare Suffers, Ironically, from Lack of Access
Within intimate relationships, symptoms of passive aggression range from mild irritation to buckling torpor. When the relationship is between entire populations and corrupted institutions,…
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Liz Magor Waits, But Not For You
A retrospective exhibition should be thick with time. More ephemeral than the objects it displays, it is a stillness that passes, a terrain upon…
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DIS Collective’s Apathetic and Ironic Berlin Biennial Underestimates its Audience
This year’s Berlin Biennale title, The Present in Drag, spells out clearly what we can expect. The aim of the show is to reflect…
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Dumb Material and Animate Belief: Sadie Benning Plays (with) God
Occasionally, a show hits the sweet spot so squarely, that critical faculties seem to evaporate on the tip of one’s tongue. In the case…
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The Renewed Focus and Acrid Targeting of Rachel Harrison at MoMA and Greene Naftali
Rachel Harrison’s acidic colors, faux-finish surfaces, and otherwise unseemly media screech like saboteurs of good taste. Unlike a certain nascent presidential candidate, however, they…
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Manifesta 11: What Artists and Curators Do for Money
It is a very small, and no doubt unintentional victory for the curatorial concept of Manifesta 11: What People Do for Money-Some Joint Ventures…
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Wresting the Work of Straub and Huillet from the Annals of Academia and Art History
How much homework should we expect to slog through, en route to art? One could surmise “A lot,” according to Jean Marie Straub and…
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From a Safe Distance: Guy Maddin Stills His Lens with Collage
Guy Maddin’s latest exhibition finds the artist in a splendid mood, if preoccupied by the subtle, inescapable persistence of his loneliness. Maddin and his…
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