Ron Athey’s “Far-Right Flirtations”
I have never been to a Ron Athey performance. I never went to any of the clubs he frequented; I’ve never met him in…
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Imagination Over Submission: Luis Camnitzer’s Liberatory Art Education
Over the summer of 2020, I was continually surprised by the versatility of cars. Amid mutual aid mobilizing and uprisings against police – each…
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With No Type of Story: Touring the Untied Mind of Pippa Garner
In 1978, the artist Pippa Garner wrote a list of “Opinions and Comments.” Among them is one that reads, “People should name their brains,”…
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Stuck in the Same Muck: Journeying Through Asher Hartman’s Psychic Theater
God seduced Jesus on a Circuit City breakroom table. The seduction began as we, the audience, sat circled in child-sized chairs in a too-bright…
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We Are Gathered Here to Grieve: Salvaging, Mourning, and ‘Cargo Cult Formalism’ in New York
As New York galleries reopened after the first wave of lockdowns, I noticed a trend across a handful of exhibitions that channeled the alienation…
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The Shadow-Self Universe of Chris Ware
Graphic novelist Chris Ware’s most recent effort, Rusty Brown, is a life-giving maze. A massively depressing book – a 356-page monument to modern loneliness…
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Wide Open Spaces: Pacifico Silano Emancipates His Gay Erotica
Pacifico Silano’s practice is based in appropriating and rephotographing the imagery in gay erotica magazines published between 1969 and the late 1980s. In less-adept…
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An Insipid Blame Game: Tony Cokes and the Monotony of Art About Trump
Over the past four decades, Tony Cokes has perfected the art of the social justice slideshow. His video essays pair appropriated text with corporate…
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The Anxious “I”: Walter Scott’s Autofictional Universe
Walter Scott faces a dilemma that has confronted many multi-disciplinary artists, especially those who work in both contemporary art and more mass-cultural fields: being…
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Waiting to Return to the Places We Were Going: Mapping Robin Cameron’s “Memory Palace”
Robin Cameron’s exhibition Memory Palace at Franz Kaka sits on the second floor. The stairs to the second floor are just inside the glass…
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