Black Lives Matter: Momus’s Commitment to the Movement Against Racial Inequality
Dear Readers, This has been a time of strife, uncertainty, and trauma for many. Before we can begin to celebrate the changes that emerge…
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Artists in Isolation: Day’s End
“I had no faith in any kind of permission.” So he cut off the lock and replaced it with his own, then went to…
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The Invention of the Humane: Ken Lum’s Collected Writings
I was planning to attend the Art Metropole launch of Everything is Relevant: Writings on Art and Life, Ken Lum’s book of his selected…
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The Art We Deserve: Luc Tuymans’s Exhausted Image
After days of historic high water and watching Venice’s warren of shops and restaurants struggle to survive, it was a relief to enter the…
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Notes on a Crisis in Beauty
1. “I do not mourn for what I have lost. For if there is one new art that we have had to learn, those…
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A Frieze in Rome: William Kentridge Updates Augustus, Tangling Time
“When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” It sounds like good advice, but Romans seem largely to ignore William Kentridge’s Triumphs and Laments,…
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The Manner of Their Dying
I think of them often. I knew Felix best. Jorge I never knew well. I feared and admired AA’s bite and sophistication. But I…
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Emergence and Ruin in Carol Wainio
Carol Wainio is a wonderful and troubling painter. For decades, a constant inventiveness in the ways of handling paint, of creating figures and spaces, has…
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