“But Can a Spirit Burn?”: Alternatives for Art Under Capital
We were reprimanded before the meeting even began. The guard, a tough looking woman employed at the Lisbon Tropical Botanical Garden, told us that…
Read MoreWe were reprimanded before the meeting even began. The guard, a tough looking woman employed at the Lisbon Tropical Botanical Garden, told us that…
Read MoreOn a sunny weekend in June, a multigenerational crowd of artists and art enthusiasts flocked to a series of vacant storefronts and office spaces…
Read MoreRemember the “long tail”? It was the theory that digital technology would redistribute demand for cultural products, away from a few empowered hit-makers and…
Read MoreIt’s a frustrating hallmark of these overheated times, the notion that one shouldn’t make abstract art in this political environment. I recently asked two…
Read MoreIt’s unfortunate, but not surprising, that critical attention and institutional acceptance usually arrives too late to the work of women artists and artists of…
Read MoreToronto’s /edition art-book fair arrives, in its sophomore year, at an energizing time for art publishing. The event drew over 8,000 visitors last year…
Read MoreIn movement study of a standard North American strip-search procedure, Francisco-Fernando Granados gambols through a codified gestural sequence: “empty pockets … remove clothing ……
Read MoreHair flicks, flirtatious glances, side eye. Hands beckoning and clapping, a finger wagging in rebuke. Body language is highlighted in Borrowed Lady, an exhibition…
Read MoreBy asking what art “does,” the curators of the eleventh Gwangju Biennale betray a palpable anxiety about whether the field in which we work…
Read MoreA recent exhibition at the National Academy Museum in New York raised the question Moshe Safdie (born 1938) has wrestled with his whole career. Is…
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