On the Sense of Queer Loneliness: Sacha Yanow’s “Uncle!” at The Kitchen
A lone wolf stalks the edges of Sacha Yanow’s one-person performance Uncle! that premiered at The Kitchen in New York in February. In nature,…
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Embraced by an Amniotic Earth: Delcy Morelos at Dia Chelsea
In El abrazo, Delcy Morelos’s site-specific solo exhibition at Dia Chelsea in New York, two earthworks swell against the perimeters of two discrete, darkened…
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Caroline Monnet’s Uneasy Objects
Pizandawatc / The One Who Listens / Celui qui écoute, a recent exhibition at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto (AMUT), draws…
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Can We Tune the Museum? Laurie Spiegel and Other Experiments in Spatializing Sound
“The Sound-Sweep,” a 1960 short story by J. G. Ballard, takes place in a world where normal music has been supplanted by soundless, uncontaminated…
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Abstraction, Legibility, and Desire in the Work of Brenda Draney
Sawridge First Nation artist Brenda Draney paints open-ended memories, what might have been or should have been or could have been otherwise. Her solo…
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When Feminisms and Futurisms Collide: Judy Chicago and Puppies Puppies at New Museum
What does an art practice that contends with feminism look like? In what ways can such a practice foreclose a confrontation with the complexities…
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They Made Him Gray: The Whitney Museum Dims Artist and Mystic Harry Smith
When you first walk into Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith at the Whitney Museum, you’re greeted by Andy Warhol’s…
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Through the Looking Glass: Distortion and the Fantasy of a Feminist Nude
Rarely do I find a work of art as disturbing as Louise Bonnet’s innocuously titled painting Figure Holding an Orange (2023). This thirty-square-foot oil-on-linen…
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From Cinematic to Static: Isa Genzken’s 75/75 Retrospective in Berlin
Why is time rarely foregrounded in our experience of sculpture? Isa Genzken intends her works to function more like “moving images than as sculptures,…
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Fought Through Women’s Bodies: Mona Hatoum’s Early Performances
The first image is a close-up of a breathing, or perhaps pulsing, scarlet blob. Only when the camera zooms out do we see these…
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