Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev’s Istanbul biennial SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms opened with speeches and song as the artworld gathered to see her first major exhibition…
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There is a bracing moment at the end of my interview with Chantal Pontbriand in early July, where, just as I’m about to leave,…
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In May I was part of a panel at NADA. It wasn’t about criticism but someone asked me why I write reviews of art…
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Chto Delat is a Russian collective of artists; founded in 2003, they are one of the most respected political art groups working today. Their…
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In 2003 the medieval town of Graz, in lower Austria (a region famously the birthplace of Arnold Schwarzenegger – his cardboard cutout greets you…
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Because the question of art’s utility isn’t new, Tania Bruguera, the Cuban artist who’s often been referred to as a “dissident” and “political activist,”…
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My childhood home in California is filled with antiques. Fragile Han Dynasty ceramics, dirt-encrusted Chinese Buddhist sculptures, various porcelain, lacquer boxes, and snuff bottles…
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And, like the world, a lunatic asylum is a mosaic of the passions. —An asylum doctor in the Sarthe, 1837 Upon discovering an illness,…
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The UK-based and Toronto-born Athena Papadopoulos created the sculptures for her recent exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (MOCA), her first institutional…
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A raccoon was screaming in agony with a gash in their side in Mollie’s backyard when I called to check in. “Animal control refused…
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