“Feast”: Xiao Guo Hui’s Divine Tragedy
There are few films that could be said to have led to their director’s deaths; Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò, or The 120 Days of…
Read MoreThere are few films that could be said to have led to their director’s deaths; Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò, or The 120 Days of…
Read MoreInvernomuto is an Italian duo who bring an uneasy postcolonial funk to contemporary art, somehow managing to capture the over-the-top brio of, say, dub…
Read MoreIn the movies, we are accustomed to watching the main character navigate the edges of a party, fall into a moment of introspection, receding…
Read More“Basically everything I paint is in my immediate neighborhood, where I ended up,” Martin Wong said in a lecture in 1991. “So, people assume…
Read MoreEnter the Greene Street location of Artists Space and the voice of martial artist Bruce Lee will greet you. “Empty your mind,” Lee instructs,…
Read MorePathological feminism – the premise informing Anicka Yi’s current exhibition at The Kitchen in New York – is perversely seductive. Yi, the show’s press…
Read MoreIn the year 2000, curator Phillippe Vergne staged an exhibition at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis titled Let’s Entertain: Life’s Guilty Pleasures. It…
Read More“I feel sorry for Jack Bush,” said an artist acquaintance of mine when I told him about the National Gallery of Canada’s recent, excellent…
Read MoreThere has been an immense volcano building up under the Museum of Modern Art for some time, a well of rage from old-school art…
Read MoreMost things, if and when they return from the dead, are dried-out and stiff. However when several outmoded artistic styles turn up in the…
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