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    7 Days

    Shimmering at the Edges: Jason de Haan at Foreman Gallery and Clint Roenisch
    Reviews July 3, 2026
    Sky Goodden

    Shimmering at the Edges: Jason de Haan at Foreman Gallery and Clint Roenisch

    Pride of Place: Looking for Michael Asher’s Los Angeles at MOCA
    Reviews June 18, 2026
    Melissa Lo

    Pride of Place: Looking for Michael Asher’s Los Angeles at MOCA

    You Might Just Call It Love: Mapping the World(s) of Paul Thek and Peter Hujar
    Reviews June 4, 2026
    Emma Fiona Jones

    You Might Just Call It Love: Mapping the World(s) of Paul Thek and Peter Hujar

    What it Means to Continue: On Gabrielle Goliath, Reparative Work, and Resisting State Violence
    Features May 14, 2026
    M. Neelika Jayawardane

    What it Means to Continue: On Gabrielle Goliath, Reparative Work, and Resisting State Violence

    A Trace of the Present in the Future: On Sam Sweet’s Invisible Los Angeles
    Features May 7, 2026
    Kate Wolf

    A Trace of the Present in the Future: On Sam Sweet’s Invisible Los Angeles

    Momus Convening: To Build and Sustain
    June 26–27, 2026
    PHI
    Montreal

    Momus Convening: To Build and Sustain

    Momus Arts Journalism Residency

    Residency June 10–July 25, 2024
    Moving Through the Rupture: Tehching Hsieh and Linda Montano Revisit Rope Piece
    Features March 4, 2026
    Eliza Swann

    Moving Through the Rupture: Tehching Hsieh and Linda Montano Revisit Rope Piece

    Authentically Vaginal: The Life Force of Vaginal Davis at PS1
    Features, Reviews January 29, 2026
    Lisa Hsiao Chen

    Authentically Vaginal: The Life Force of Vaginal Davis at PS1

    Go on Without Me: Summer Kim Lee and TJ Shin on Absenteeism, Endlessness, and Recursion
    Features December 3, 2025
    Summer Kim Lee, TJ Shin

    Go on Without Me: Summer Kim Lee and TJ Shin on Absenteeism, Endlessness, and Recursion

    Time Made Strange: Abbas Akhavan at the Belkin Art Gallery
    Reviews November 26, 2025
    Andrew Witt

    Time Made Strange: Abbas Akhavan at the Belkin Art Gallery

    Call from Inside the House: Christina Forrer at Parker Gallery
    Reviews November 6, 2025
    Lisa Locascio Nighthawk

    Call from Inside the House: Christina Forrer at Parker Gallery

    Extraordinary Living Begins Here: Artists Negotiate Large-Scale Infrastructure
    Features October 16, 2025
    Jade Meili Barget

    Extraordinary Living Begins Here: Artists Negotiate Large-Scale Infrastructure

    Myth and Reality Converge: Qiu Anxiong and Howie Tsui at Richmond Art Gallery
    Reviews September 23, 2025
    Lin Li

    Myth and Reality Converge: Qiu Anxiong and Howie Tsui at Richmond Art Gallery

    “Staying with the Trouble” at the Helsinki Biennial: Challenges of Environmental Curating
    Reviews September 11, 2025
    Katie Lawson

    “Staying with the Trouble” at the Helsinki Biennial: Challenges of Environmental Curating

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    Features, Reviews September 4, 2025
    Aaron Katzeman

    Jeffrey Gibson Saves America

    Love Letter Incinerators: Martin Wong’s Prison Paintings
    Features August 14, 2025
    Ramona Ngin

    Love Letter Incinerators: Martin Wong’s Prison Paintings

    Implied Threat, Implied Responsibility: Elizabeth Catlett at the National Gallery of Art
    Reviews June 26, 2025
    MacKenzie River Foy

    Implied Threat, Implied Responsibility: Elizabeth Catlett at the National Gallery of Art

    Improvising at the Edge of the World: Joan Jonas at the Gund
    Reviews June 12, 2025
    Miciah Hussey

    Improvising at the Edge of the World: Joan Jonas at the Gund

    The High Stakes of Nancy Holt’s Systems
    Features May 15, 2025
    Cat Kron

    The High Stakes of Nancy Holt’s Systems

    Remembering Kelly Mark
    Features March 25, 2025
    Sky Goodden

    Remembering Kelly Mark

    The Boy in the Bathroom: Tom Burr’s Torrington Project
    Features March 14, 2025
    Jamie Ross

    The Boy in the Bathroom: Tom Burr’s Torrington Project

    A Very Real American Place: The Suburban Unconscious in Mike Kelley
    Reviews March 6, 2025
    Simon Wu

    A Very Real American Place: The Suburban Unconscious in Mike Kelley

    On Weather and the Archive: Sofía Gallisá Muriente and Tony Cruz Pabón
    Features, Reviews February 21, 2025
    Alexandra Méndez García

    On Weather and the Archive: Sofía Gallisá Muriente and Tony Cruz Pabón

    Disposability, Divestment, and Action: The Palestine Solidarity Movement and the State of Art in Toronto
    Features February 5, 2025
    Tiana Reid

    Disposability, Divestment, and Action: The Palestine Solidarity Movement and the State of Art in Toronto

    When Women Run the World: Gail Thacker’s Queer Feminist Marvel
    Features January 30, 2025
    Jackson Davidow

    When Women Run the World: Gail Thacker’s Queer Feminist Marvel

    Dempsey Bob is Waking Up
    Features October 28, 2024
    Napatsi Folger

    Dempsey Bob is Waking Up

    On Not Lasting: Diaries, Loss, and the Art of Eva Hesse
    Features October 12, 2024
    Lauren Stroh

    On Not Lasting: Diaries, Loss, and the Art of Eva Hesse

    Invasion from Mars: On the Charged Personae of Shelly Mars
    Features September 27, 2024
    Gyula Muskovics

    Invasion from Mars: On the Charged Personae of Shelly Mars

    Goodbye to Berlin
    Features, Reviews July 31, 2024
    Sholem Krishtalka

    Goodbye to Berlin

    The Possessions of Paul Pfeiffer
    Reviews July 11, 2024
    Simon Wu

    The Possessions of Paul Pfeiffer

    Pacita Abad Sees the Soul of an Artifact
    Features, Reviews July 5, 2024
    Enzo Escober

    Pacita Abad Sees the Soul of an Artifact

    Exposing the Contradictions: Jewish Artists Dismantling Germany’s Nationalist Narrative
    Features June 14, 2024
    Julie Weitz

    Exposing the Contradictions: Jewish Artists Dismantling Germany’s Nationalist Narrative

    Loosening the Stays
    Features May 15, 2024
    Claudia La Rocco

    Loosening the Stays

    Changing the Ground: Amy Sillman Talks About Painting
    Features May 3, 2024
    Jason Stopa

    Changing the Ground: Amy Sillman Talks About Painting

    A Feeling Between the Lines: The Anxious Influence of Agnes Martin’s “Writings”
    Features, Reviews April 26, 2024
    Terry Nguyen

    A Feeling Between the Lines: The Anxious Influence of Agnes Martin’s “Writings”

    Falling From the Tower: Levani on the Necessity of Endings
    Features March 29, 2024
    Gyula Muskovics

    Falling From the Tower: Levani on the Necessity of Endings

    Can We Tune the Museum? Laurie Spiegel and Other Experiments in Spatializing Sound
    Features, Reviews March 21, 2024
    Mariana Fernández

    Can We Tune the Museum? Laurie Spiegel and Other Experiments in Spatializing Sound

    The Art of Accumulation in an Age of Decluttering
    Features July 18, 2023
    Mimi Wong

    The Art of Accumulation in an Age of Decluttering

    June Clark’s Perseverance of Memory
    Features July 11, 2023
    Jessica Lynne

    June Clark’s Perseverance of Memory

    An Alien Echo at the Gwangju Biennale
    Reviews June 8, 2023
    X. Amy Zhang

    An Alien Echo at the Gwangju Biennale

    The New World Looks Like the Old One: DYOR at Kunsthalle Zürich
    Reviews March 29, 2023
    Philipp Hindahl

    The New World Looks Like the Old One: DYOR at Kunsthalle Zürich

    Never Risky: Seeking New Life at the Singapore Biennale
    Reviews March 22, 2023
    Andrew Russeth

    Never Risky: Seeking New Life at the Singapore Biennale

    The Soft Syncretism of Tau Lewis
    Reviews March 15, 2023
    Darla Migan

    The Soft Syncretism of Tau Lewis

    The Preserving Machine of Matthias Groebel
    Reviews March 9, 2023
    Sterre Barentsen

    The Preserving Machine of Matthias Groebel

    Failure in Infinitives: A Remembrance of Bernadette Mayer
    Features February 16, 2023
    Eliza Swann

    Failure in Infinitives: A Remembrance of Bernadette Mayer

    “The Non-Places Are the Places”: Manifesta 14’s Uneasy Presence in Kosovo
    Reviews February 12, 2023
    Ryan Ferko

    “The Non-Places Are the Places”: Manifesta 14’s Uneasy Presence in Kosovo

    All Positions Possible: Simone Forti Across Time, Through Community
    Features January 31, 2023
    Catherine G. Wagley

    All Positions Possible: Simone Forti Across Time, Through Community

    Reviewing the Reviews: Documenta 15
    Features, Reviews December 10, 2022
    Rahel Aima and Catherine G. Wagley

    Reviewing the Reviews: Documenta 15

    Duplicity and Diptychs: The Maraya Project’s Twinned Visions of Complicity
    Features, Reviews November 18, 2022
    Shazia Hafiz Ramji

    Duplicity and Diptychs: The Maraya Project’s Twinned Visions of Complicity

    Preoccupied with Things Left Behind: On Three Nigerian Artists
    Features November 2, 2022
    Ayodeji Rotinwa

    Preoccupied with Things Left Behind: On Three Nigerian Artists

    On the Fear “That There Wouldn’t be Another Project”: A Conversation with Lisa Hsiao Chen
    Features October 26, 2022
    Catherine G. Wagley

    On the Fear “That There Wouldn’t be Another Project”: A Conversation with Lisa Hsiao Chen

    Relocating Trauma at the Venice Biennale
    Features, Reviews September 23, 2022
    Julie Weitz

    Relocating Trauma at the Venice Biennale

    A Meditation on Hannah Wilke’s Last Work
    Features July 19, 2022
    Nora Rosenthal

    A Meditation on Hannah Wilke’s Last Work

    Where Do Dreams Live?
    Features, Reviews June 3, 2022
    Siera Hyte

    Where Do Dreams Live?

    A Lapidary Grief: Sheila Heti’s “Pure Colour” Dares Her Critics
    Reviews April 12, 2022
    Jocelyn Parr

    A Lapidary Grief: Sheila Heti’s “Pure Colour” Dares Her Critics

    Plague Medicine: Reading Avocado Ibuprofen in a Pandemic
    Features, Reviews March 17, 2022
    Saelan Twerdy

    Plague Medicine: Reading Avocado Ibuprofen in a Pandemic

    “It’s All About Desire”: hannah baer and Erica Dawn Lyle Talk Trans Freedom and Joy
    Features March 3, 2022
    Erica Dawn Lyle

    “It’s All About Desire”: hannah baer and Erica Dawn Lyle Talk Trans Freedom and Joy

    Losing Ground in Singapore’s State-Curated Digital Age
    Features December 21, 2021
    Eunice Lacaste

    Losing Ground in Singapore’s State-Curated Digital Age

    A Love Letter in Louisville: Breonna Taylor at the Speed Museum
    Features September 28, 2021
    Jasmine Amussen

    A Love Letter in Louisville: Breonna Taylor at the Speed Museum

    Imperfect Archives: Lilian Leung and Linda Zhang Virtually Capture Eroding Chinatowns
    Features July 12, 2021
    Steph Wong Ken

    Imperfect Archives: Lilian Leung and Linda Zhang Virtually Capture Eroding Chinatowns

    The Voicemail Interview: Erica Dawn Lyle and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the Phone
    Features June 3, 2021
    Erica Dawn Lyle

    The Voicemail Interview: Erica Dawn Lyle and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the Phone

    “I Left This for a Reason”: An Interview with Amy Fung
    Features May 17, 2021
    Jarrett Earnest

    “I Left This for a Reason”: An Interview with Amy Fung

    “I Think I’m Really Enjoying Painting”: Margaux Williamson’s New Work
    Features May 12, 2021
    Mark Mann

    “I Think I’m Really Enjoying Painting”: Margaux Williamson’s New Work

    With No Type of Story: Touring the Untied Mind of Pippa Garner
    Features, Reviews March 12, 2021
    Gracie Hadland

    With No Type of Story: Touring the Untied Mind of Pippa Garner

    Letter From Atlanta: St. Roch Blues
    Features March 2, 2021
    Jasmine Amussen

    Letter From Atlanta: St. Roch Blues

    The Aesthetic Dimension of Erasure: Voluspa Jarpa on Twenty Years of Recovering Trauma
    Features January 27, 2021
    Juan José Santos

    The Aesthetic Dimension of Erasure: Voluspa Jarpa on Twenty Years of Recovering Trauma

    “Proudly Broken and Refusing to ‘Fit’”: Legacy Russell on “Glitch Feminism”
    Features September 28, 2020
    Ben Davis

    “Proudly Broken and Refusing to ‘Fit’”: Legacy Russell on “Glitch Feminism”

    Between the Gallery and the Street: An Interview with Vanessa Thill
    Features August 18, 2020
    Andreas Petrossiants

    Between the Gallery and the Street: An Interview with Vanessa Thill

    Blood and Paper: Zarina and the Currencies of Violence in India
    Reviews June 30, 2020
    Kamayani Sharma

    Blood and Paper: Zarina and the Currencies of Violence in India

    The Internet is “Never Peaceful, Never Fair, Never Good”: An Interview with Joanne McNeil
    Features May 29, 2020
    Saelan Twerdy

    The Internet is “Never Peaceful, Never Fair, Never Good”: An Interview with Joanne McNeil

    Listening to Jeanne Randolph
    Features May 23, 2020
    Sky Goodden

    Listening to Jeanne Randolph

    Cyclical Gods: Reliving Pandemic
    Features May 8, 2020
    Xin Wang

    Cyclical Gods: Reliving Pandemic

    Artists in Isolation: There Have Always Been Signs
    Features April 27, 2020
    Tao Fei

    Artists in Isolation: There Have Always Been Signs

    The Spaces Where We Live: Gentrification, Insecurity, and Experimental Living in LA
    Features March 13, 2020
    Catherine G. Wagley

    The Spaces Where We Live: Gentrification, Insecurity, and Experimental Living in LA

    With Sharper Tools: Defending the National Endowment for the Arts
    Features March 6, 2020
    Ben Davis

    With Sharper Tools: Defending the National Endowment for the Arts

    The Lake and The Lake: Against Crisis as Narrative
    Reviews March 3, 2020
    Asa Mendelsohn

    The Lake and The Lake: Against Crisis as Narrative

    To Better Days: Optimistic Design for an Uncertain Future
    Reviews February 7, 2020
    Jessica Rizzo

    To Better Days: Optimistic Design for an Uncertain Future

    Detective Stories About Feelings: The Driving Force of Peter Schjeldahl
    Features January 27, 2020
    Jarrett Earnest

    Detective Stories About Feelings: The Driving Force of Peter Schjeldahl

    The Art We Deserve: Luc Tuymans’s Exhausted Image
    Reviews January 8, 2020
    Andy Patton

    The Art We Deserve: Luc Tuymans’s Exhausted Image

    In the Waiting Room: The Sticky, Slippery Duration of “Sick Time”
    Reviews December 21, 2019
    Tao Fei

    In the Waiting Room: The Sticky, Slippery Duration of “Sick Time”

    The Signs for Where We Meet: A Conversation Between Robert Fones and James Kirkpatrick
    Features December 13, 2019
    James Kirkpatrick

    The Signs for Where We Meet: A Conversation Between Robert Fones and James Kirkpatrick

    It’s Okay to Laugh: The Political Turn in Bridget Moser’s Prop Art
    Features December 2, 2019
    Mark Mann

    It’s Okay to Laugh: The Political Turn in Bridget Moser’s Prop Art

    Decolonization is Not a Metaphor: The Toronto Biennial Fights its Frame
    Reviews November 25, 2019
    Vince Rozario

    Decolonization is Not a Metaphor: The Toronto Biennial Fights its Frame

    Fantastic Emissions: Mika Rottenberg’s Labor of Mystification
    Reviews November 4, 2019
    Maru Pabón

    Fantastic Emissions: Mika Rottenberg’s Labor of Mystification

    Marfa’s Two-Step: The Uneasy Landscape of Minimalist Heaven
    Features October 28, 2019
    Kimberlee Córdova

    Marfa’s Two-Step: The Uneasy Landscape of Minimalist Heaven

    Art and Labor: Writers Bloc
    Features September 16, 2019
    Jasmine Amussen

    Art and Labor: Writers Bloc

    Notes on a Crisis in Beauty
    Features August 20, 2019
    Andy Patton

    Notes on a Crisis in Beauty

    Love and Loneliness: Queering Modernisms in Figurative Painting
    Features, Reviews August 1, 2019
    Joseph Henry

    Love and Loneliness: Queering Modernisms in Figurative Painting

    Wire and String: Olga Balema’s Sinewy Abjection
    Reviews July 26, 2019
    Mitch Speed

    Wire and String: Olga Balema’s Sinewy Abjection

    “We Need More Voices”: Introducing the Momus Emerging Critics Residency
    Features July 23, 2019
    Sky Goodden, Amelia Wong-Mersereau

    “We Need More Voices”: Introducing the Momus Emerging Critics Residency

    Remembering Katharine Mulherin
    Features July 18, 2019
    Sky Goodden

    Remembering Katharine Mulherin

    Where Do We Go From Here? Dubious Wealth and Ethical Funding
    Features July 5, 2019
    Ben Davis

    Where Do We Go From Here? Dubious Wealth and Ethical Funding

    Grafting the Baroque: The Scaled-Up Frames of David Armstrong Six
    Reviews May 17, 2019
    Sky Goodden

    Grafting the Baroque: The Scaled-Up Frames of David Armstrong Six

    “This Reductive Brave New World”: Andrea Dworkin’s Painful Relevance
    Features, Reviews May 15, 2019
    Wendy Vogel

    “This Reductive Brave New World”: Andrea Dworkin’s Painful Relevance

    From Dust to Light: On Photography’s Material Traces
    Reviews April 24, 2019
    Erin Silver

    From Dust to Light: On Photography’s Material Traces

    “But Can a Spirit Burn?”: Alternatives for Art Under Capital
    Features April 1, 2019
    Catherine G. Wagley

    “But Can a Spirit Burn?”: Alternatives for Art Under Capital

    The Substance of Grief: Nelson Henricks Deepens the Black Page
    Reviews March 20, 2019
    Casey Beal

    The Substance of Grief: Nelson Henricks Deepens the Black Page

    More Culture than Capital: Modesty and Ambition at the Atlanta Biennial
    Reviews March 15, 2019
    Maura Callahan

    More Culture than Capital: Modesty and Ambition at the Atlanta Biennial

    What’s Wrong with a Fairly Good Biennial?
    Features, Reviews January 16, 2019
    Mitch Speed

    What’s Wrong with a Fairly Good Biennial?

    Signal and Noise: Sara Eliassen and the Visual Roots of Fascism
    Reviews January 11, 2019
    Wendy Vogel

    Signal and Noise: Sara Eliassen and the Visual Roots of Fascism

    How a Dynasty Defines Taste: The Deep Roots of Middle Eastern Abstraction
    Features, Reviews December 12, 2018
    Maru Pabón

    How a Dynasty Defines Taste: The Deep Roots of Middle Eastern Abstraction

    The Bold Refusal of lauren woods’s “American Monument”
    Features, Reviews December 7, 2018
    Catherine G. Wagley

    The Bold Refusal of lauren woods’s “American Monument”

    Homage to Oneself: Julian Schnabel Interprets the Musée d’Orsay
    Reviews November 20, 2018
    Philip Monk

    Homage to Oneself: Julian Schnabel Interprets the Musée d’Orsay

    Archeology and Ambivalence at Austria’s Steirischer Herbst Festival
    Reviews November 2, 2018
    Kristian Vistrup Madsen

    Archeology and Ambivalence at Austria’s Steirischer Herbst Festival

    Now More Than Ever: Sarah Lucas’s Provocations, Renewed
    Reviews October 10, 2018
    Johanna Fateman

    Now More Than Ever: Sarah Lucas’s Provocations, Renewed

    Recognition and Reckoning: Montreal’s Alternative Art Spaces at the Crossroads
    Features, Reviews July 27, 2018
    Saelan Twerdy

    Recognition and Reckoning: Montreal’s Alternative Art Spaces at the Crossroads

    Traumatizing the Museum: An Interview with Joshua Schwebel
    Features July 13, 2018
    Jon Davies, Joshua Schwebel

    Traumatizing the Museum: An Interview with Joshua Schwebel

    Courting Exhaustion: Manifesta’s Dog Days
    Reviews July 6, 2018
    Kristian Vistrup Madsen

    Courting Exhaustion: Manifesta’s Dog Days

    The Manner of Their Dying
    Features June 15, 2018
    Andy Patton

    The Manner of Their Dying

    Irreligious Icons: Superficial Heresy at the Met
    Reviews May 10, 2018
    Eleanor Heartney

    Irreligious Icons: Superficial Heresy at the Met

    What is to be Learned, What is to be Done? Thomas Hirschhorn at the Remai Modern
    Features, Reviews May 4, 2018
    Mitch Speed

    What is to be Learned, What is to be Done? Thomas Hirschhorn at the Remai Modern

    Embarrassed Celebrity: Laurie Simmons’s Feature Debut
    Reviews April 18, 2018
    Christina Catherine Martinez

    Embarrassed Celebrity: Laurie Simmons’s Feature Debut

    An Always Fractured Order: Hal Foster’s Unromantic Avant-Garde
    Features March 26, 2018
    Ben Davis

    An Always Fractured Order: Hal Foster’s Unromantic Avant-Garde

    The Listening Gaze: Raymond Gervais (1946-2018)
    Features January 31, 2018
    Raymond Gervais

    The Listening Gaze: Raymond Gervais (1946-2018)

    Darkling Futures and Desert Hangover at the New SITE Sante Fe
    Features, Reviews December 1, 2017
    Andrew Berardini

    Darkling Futures and Desert Hangover at the New SITE Sante Fe

    Everybody Knows: Prada Foundation’s Stylish Cynicism
    Reviews November 23, 2017
    Catherine G. Wagley

    Everybody Knows: Prada Foundation’s Stylish Cynicism

    Palpable Urgency and Understated Ecology: Latvia’s “Survival Kit 9”
    Reviews November 17, 2017
    Mitch Speed

    Palpable Urgency and Understated Ecology: Latvia’s “Survival Kit 9”

    Risking Pop-Solipsism, Moyra Davey Gets Earnest in Berlin
    Reviews October 23, 2017
    Mitch Speed

    Risking Pop-Solipsism, Moyra Davey Gets Earnest in Berlin

    Performance Art Blows Open the Prairies, in “Stages”
    Reviews September 14, 2017
    Mitch Speed

    Performance Art Blows Open the Prairies, in “Stages”

    How to Act Ethically in Art
    Features July 28, 2017
    Andrew Berardini

    How to Act Ethically in Art

    Mourning Jimmie Durham
    Features July 20, 2017
    Aruna D'Souza

    Mourning Jimmie Durham

    Hélio Oiticica’s Journey From Art Visionary to Coke Dealer and Back Again
    Features July 14, 2017
    Ben Davis

    Hélio Oiticica’s Journey From Art Visionary to Coke Dealer and Back Again

    The Intimate Dangers of Reading Georgia O’Keeffe Through a Blouse
    Features, Reviews July 13, 2017
    Melissa Wyse

    The Intimate Dangers of Reading Georgia O’Keeffe Through a Blouse

    Wu Tsang, Eileen Myles, and Me: Reading Zoe Leonard’s “I Want a President”
    Features, Reviews June 22, 2017
    Mitch Speed

    Wu Tsang, Eileen Myles, and Me: Reading Zoe Leonard’s “I Want a President”

    A Parasitic ‘joie de vivre’ in “Viva Arte Viva”
    Features, Reviews May 30, 2017
    Mitch Speed

    A Parasitic ‘joie de vivre’ in “Viva Arte Viva”

    What Happened to the Anthropocene? Searching the 57th Venice Biennale for Signs of Destruction
    Reviews May 17, 2017
    John Holten

    What Happened to the Anthropocene? Searching the 57th Venice Biennale for Signs of Destruction

    “Science Truth” and Fearless Feminism in Lynn Hershman Leeson’s “Civic Radar”
    Reviews May 12, 2017
    Wendy Vogel

    “Science Truth” and Fearless Feminism in Lynn Hershman Leeson’s “Civic Radar”

    “She Comes in Colors”: A Portrait of Sarah Cain, Painter
    Features May 10, 2017
    Andrew Berardini

    “She Comes in Colors”: A Portrait of Sarah Cain, Painter

    Gallerist Virginia Dwan, the Reluctant Legend
    Features, Reviews May 5, 2017
    Catherine G. Wagley

    Gallerist Virginia Dwan, the Reluctant Legend

    The Inevitable Cannibalization of Institutional Critique: Surveying Michael Asher and Christopher D’Arcangelo in L.A.
    Reviews April 20, 2017
    Hyunjee Nicole Kim

    The Inevitable Cannibalization of Institutional Critique: Surveying Michael Asher and Christopher D’Arcangelo in L.A.

    How Do We Decolonize Desire? Evelyn Taocheng Wang Massages Difficult Truths at Château Shatto
    Reviews February 22, 2017
    Hyunjee Nicole Kim

    How Do We Decolonize Desire? Evelyn Taocheng Wang Massages Difficult Truths at Château Shatto

    Cassils and the Complicated Rhetoric of the Hero
    Features February 9, 2017
    Emily Vey Duke

    Cassils and the Complicated Rhetoric of the Hero

    Feeling Good, Feeling Bad: The Self-Help Vibrations of Patrick Howlett
    Reviews January 19, 2017
    Heather White

    Feeling Good, Feeling Bad: The Self-Help Vibrations of Patrick Howlett

    The Portent in Exhibiting Robert Mapplethorpe: What Can He Mean to Us Now?
    Reviews January 11, 2017
    Sky Goodden

    The Portent in Exhibiting Robert Mapplethorpe: What Can He Mean to Us Now?

    The Atmospheric Pressure in “Reading” Barbara Bloom
    Reviews January 6, 2017
    Mitch Speed

    The Atmospheric Pressure in “Reading” Barbara Bloom

    Grieving in L.A.
    Features, Reviews December 22, 2016
    Sky Goodden

    Grieving in L.A.

    An Allegory for an Absconded Modernity: Claudio Correa Signals Chile’s Speculative Present
    Features, Reviews December 15, 2016
    Juan José Santos

    An Allegory for an Absconded Modernity: Claudio Correa Signals Chile’s Speculative Present

    Ways of Seeing John Berger, in Two Recent Documentaries
    Reviews December 13, 2016
    Mitch Speed

    Ways of Seeing John Berger, in Two Recent Documentaries

    Isa Genzken Plays with the Artworld’s Insides in “I Love Michael Asher”
    Reviews December 8, 2016
    Catherine G. Wagley

    Isa Genzken Plays with the Artworld’s Insides in “I Love Michael Asher”

    How to Hang a Picture
    Features December 6, 2016
    Andrew Berardini

    How to Hang a Picture

    An Elegy for Annie Pootoogook (1969–2016)
    Features September 30, 2016
    Candice Hopkins

    An Elegy for Annie Pootoogook (1969–2016)

    Wifredo Lam: The Albissola Years
    Features September 22, 2016
    Eskil Lam

    Wifredo Lam: The Albissola Years

    Liz Magor Waits, But Not For You
    Reviews August 17, 2016
    E.C. Woodley

    Liz Magor Waits, But Not For You

    From a Safe Distance: Guy Maddin Stills His Lens with Collage
    Reviews July 18, 2016
    Mark Mann

    From a Safe Distance: Guy Maddin Stills His Lens with Collage

    After Brexit, Art Must Break Out of Its Bubble
    Features June 30, 2016
    Ben Davis

    After Brexit, Art Must Break Out of Its Bubble

    The Fair They Built: The Disappeared Workers of Art Basel, in Painting
    Features June 27, 2016
    Sholem Krishtalka

    The Fair They Built: The Disappeared Workers of Art Basel, in Painting

    The Tug of the Earth and the Tug of the Sky: The Writhing Stillness of Agnes Martin
    Reviews June 15, 2016
    Andrew Berardini

    The Tug of the Earth and the Tug of the Sky: The Writhing Stillness of Agnes Martin

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