It’s All About Good Timing: Goodwater at the Plumb
For the ancient Greeks, the division of time was represented by a separation of chronos from kairos. To symbolize durational or cyclical time, Greco-Roman…
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Mia Sandhu Holds the Gaze Hostage
Seeing You, Seeing Me, Seeing You, as a title, is a bit misleading. At first blush, you couldn’t tell whether the figures in Mia…
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Thief
If they were lucky, novels about artists published in the past year got to ride the wave of a literary trend termed “Künstlermania.” The…
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Common Boundaries and Refused Exits: Aman Sandhu and Andrew Black
A double-sided screen hung in the middle of Centre Clark’s main gallery, suspending two landscapes like a portal. On one side was Aman Sandhu’s…
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Reviewing the Reviews: Documenta 15
The coverage and criticism of Documenta 15 was an experience in itself, whether or not you made it to Kassel this year. This edition…
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The Remains of the Day: Nadia Belerique in Glasgow
In between visits to Nadia Belerique’s exhibition, SLICE, at David Dale Gallery in Glasgow, I’d been engaged in moving flats for the first time…
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Duplicity and Diptychs: The Maraya Project’s Twinned Visions of Complicity
The similarities between the seawall in Vancouver and the seawall in Dubai are eerie. You might not think to compare them unless you have…
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Relocating Trauma at the Venice Biennale
During my visit to the 59th Venice Biennale, I found myself in the Venetian ghetto twice. The first was to celebrate Shabbat with an…
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Against Nations
At the 59th Venice Biennale, many of the stand-out pavilions were those that contested the pavilion structure itself. Consider Roma artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas’s lustrous…
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Wayne Salmon’s Portraits of Black Belonging in Kensington Market
In Kensington Market: Meditations on Home, photographer Wayne Salmon continues his decades-long rumination on the beauty of Black life within the wake of slavery….
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