What Gets Revealed When Iris Häussler Finally Owns Her Name
It’s not easy to write about Iris Häussler. I’ve been avoiding it, though desiring it, since her daring He Named Her Amber (2008) subsumed the…
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Bodies Beholden: The Changed Corporeality of David Salle’s New Paintings
In a 2008 commercial for the Swiffer SweeperVac, a conservatively clad woman weaves back and forth with the futuristic device, apparently engaged in an…
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Mary Heilmann and David Reed’s “Two By Two” at the Hamburger Bahnhof Floats Towards Americana
Once a train station, Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof museum now facilitates transportive experiences. There in a large hall, forty-five paintings currently hang in pairs, one…
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This Is Where It Ends: The Denouement of Post-Internet Art in Jon Rafman’s Deep Web
In a recent essay for Artforum, Jon Rafman described his early work as “romantic.” Specifically, he cited his virtual safaris of Kool-Aid Man in…
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Simon Denny’s Trade Show Overkill at MoMA PS1
I’d always thought of the word “disruptive” as a negative term before immersing myself in Simon Denny’s quasi-retrospective at MoMA PS1. The exhibition takes…
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Space is the Plane: Chris Curreri Explodes His Medium at the Gardiner Museum
Walking into the foyer of the Gardiner Museum, one comes face-to-face with what appears to be a segment taken directly from an archaeological dig, or…
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View from Here: On the Contingency of Sight in Wanda Koop
The emphatic capitalization of VIEW from HERE, Wanda Koop’s recent solo exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, implies an urgent specificity that is never…
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VSVSVS at Mercer Union: A White-Cube Compromise
The frisky Toronto collective VSVSVS – a collective of emerging artists, most of whom are connected to Guelph University, and many of whom share…
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Ydessa Hendeles: Of Ourselves and of Our Subjects
There is a fine line between being an object and a person. And it’s hard to know when it’s been traversed. The difficulty lies…
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Labor Lost: Okwui Enwezor’s Artworld Biennale
Consuming visual art is conspicuously, if oddly, social. You are inherently distracted, aware of watching and being watched, even, perhaps especially, in the darkened…
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