Working It
In an interview about her 2003 performance Untitled, in which she had sex with an art collector on camera for a sum initially reported…
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The Final Fart: A Meditation on Hannah Wilke’s Last Work
Hannah Wilke knew what a death mask was. She knew that a death mask is an event, not an object. She knew that the…
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Post-Confessional: The Aging Intimacies of Sophie Calle
In advance of Missing, French conceptual artist Sophie Calle’s first major retrospective in the United States, both New York Times Magazine and the Guardian…
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The Ellipses of Eva Hesse: Reading Her Collected Diaries
Eva Hesse’s collected diaries begin at the end. In the book’s last sentence, editor Barry Rosen thanks Hesse’s friend Gioia Timpanelli for discovering the…
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The Depressing Power of Art in Raphaëlle de Groot’s “Summit Meetings”
Between 2009 and 2012, Raphaëlle de Groot invited people to give her objects that they no longer wanted but couldn’t get rid of. As…
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The Most Important Art Essays of the Year
This time last year, my editor asked me to put together a list of the most important essays of 2014, and I drew a blank….
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Friends Among Us: Reflections on the Value and Risk of Nepotism in Art
Corazon del Sol had just arrived in Lisbon, to an apartment she left in the early 2010s, not long after losing someone close. She…
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Are Sex Differences Getting in the Way?: The Limits of Gender-Based Curating
Dear Dick, I’m wondering why every act that narrated female lived experience in the ‘70s has been read only as “collaboration” and “feminist.” The…
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In Praise of Good Art Writing
I took this task a bit too seriously. I read every back issue of every magazine snow-drifting throughout my house, fingering all the books…
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