What to Do About Klaus: How Arts Communities Assert Their Agency
As first impressions go, it wasn’t ideal. On the week he was announced as MOCA Los Angeles’s new director, Klaus Biesenbach managed to alienate…
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What Will Art Look Like in 100 Years? Sixteen Contemporary Artists Predict the Future
It’s an understatement to say that a lot can change in 100 years. A century ago, Europe was just limping out of World War…
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Place, Space, or Backdrop: The Dilemma of Desert X, the “Coachella Biennial”
Against this summer’s alignment of Documenta 14, the Venice Biennale, and Skulptur Projekte Münster, the first edition of the Desert X biennial seemed to…
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Grieving in L.A.
My first trip to Los Angeles started ten days after an election that diminished our assurance in something like a common good. I booked…
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