Dana Schutz Archives

Features, Reviews• August 1, 2019

Love and Loneliness: Queering Modernisms in Figurative Painting

By Joseph Henry

I work on 22nd Street in the Chelsea gallery district of Manhattan, so it was easy to notice the painting. Louis Fratino’s I keep…

Artnet News, Features• July 27, 2019

How Protest Works Now: Understanding “The Tear Gas Biennial” and its Historic Effect

By Ben Davis

In the pantheon of texts about art, there are very, very few that have had the impact of “The Tear Gas Biennial.” Published online…

Reviews• July 16, 2019

Firing Blanks: Hito Steyerl and the Voiding of Research Art

By Rahel Aima

We’ve all heard the statistics. That in America, there is a mass shooting every day, that one hundred Americans die from gun violence daily,…

Reviews• October 3, 2018

Pinning Whiteness to the Wall: The Violent Theater of Rosalind Fox Solomon

By Michele Pearson Clarke

There’s nothing I love more than a feminist killjoy, and in Liberty Theater, Rosalind Fox Solomon just might ruin your day. This solo exhibition…

Reviews• June 8, 2018

“Whitewalling,” Mishearing, and Translating Protest

By Casey Beal

Speech often fails when America talks to itself about race, about dissent, about protest, inequality, or exclusion. Those in positions to manifest systemic change…

Features• August 11, 2017

Free to Care Less: On the Cynicism of “Starting a Conversation”

By Casey Beal

This year’s spate of artworld controversies surrounding cultural appropriation and the ethics of representation suggests that we should sharpen our vocabulary, and find precise…

Reviews• April 20, 2017

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

By Hyunjee Nicole Kim

Emma Goldman described anarchism as “a living force in the affairs of our life, constantly creating new conditions,” refusing a “theory of the future…