When Paul Chan won the Hugo Boss Prize in 2014, Badlands Unlimited, Chan’s publishing imprint, released a statement on its website: “Badlands asked Chan…
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Speech often fails when America talks to itself about race, about dissent, about protest, inequality, or exclusion. Those in positions to manifest systemic change…
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Like most grassroots movements borne of slow-simmering anger and long-standing frustration, #MeToo is both overdue and messy as hell. Its faint whiff of anarchy…
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In the summer of 1994, the end of my second year at the IFA and Linda Nochlin’s first, she came to stay with my…
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Before we saw the art, we saw the hype: a press release, consisting of two seemingly mismatched parts, which circulated widely and even garnered…
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I confess to experiencing regular doubt, lately, about what art criticism can contribute to the fray when the conversations we need to be having,…
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In April, I wrote a review of an exhibition at the Hammer Museum at UCLA: “Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World.” I…
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On May 28, 2017, MASS MoCA inaugurated its new Building 6, doubling its existing gallery space and turning the 16-acre complex of abandoned, 19th-century…
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