“As a Relief from Language”: Hilton Als, as Artist
To read White Girls, Hilton Als’s 2013 collection of upending essays, is to feel calcified assumptions about sexual and racial identification dissolve. A chain of…
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The Humanist Impulse of Yousuf Karsh
Artist Paul Klee said that art does not reproduce the “visible,” it makes visible. What interested him was to get to the other side…
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Misogyny and the Myth of the ’90s at Mexico City’s Kurimanzutto
Kurimanzutto is a pristine, vaulted gallery in the San Miguel de Chapultepec neighborhood of Mexico City. As part of the recent exhibition XYLAÑYNU. Taller…
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Fantasies Both Light and Dark in Veteran Mavericks Eldon Garnet and Max Dean
Two veteran mavericks whose wide-ranging practices gradually came to concentrate around photography are enjoying late-career exhibitions in Toronto. Max Dean has received recent accolades,…
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Flickering Insight from the Whitechapel’s “Electronic Superhighway”
“The internet does not exist,” wrote Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle in e-flux journal’s critical anthology of the same name. Perhaps…
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What Should Art “Do”? The Eccentrics’ Vital Nonsense in a Time of Crisis
What should artists do in a time of crisis? This grave question haunted the avant-garde movements of the early twentieth-century. In the wake of…
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In Search of Himself: Sky Glabush’s Mimetic Practice Drifts Into the Neo-Modernist Trend
“Artists don’t own the meaning of their work.” New York Times critic Roberta Smith issued this controversial and affecting line to a full auditorium…
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Emergence and Ruin in Carol Wainio
Carol Wainio is a wonderful and troubling painter. For decades, a constant inventiveness in the ways of handling paint, of creating figures and spaces, has…
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The Sadean Woman: Tricia Middleton and the Violence of Art
Tricia Middleton came late to showing in commercial galleries. In a career spanning fifteen years, her late-2014 exhibition at Jessica Bradley Gallery in Toronto…
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The Hermetic Lyricism of Anri Sala
“When I first showed the city footage in Poughkeepsie, [artist] Liam Gillick said to me, ‘Anri, tell me the truth. Tell me that this…
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