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    Erin Min

    Duane Linklater and the Limits of Dia Art Foundation’s Reckoning
    Features June 24, 2026
    David W. Norman

    Duane Linklater and the Limits of Dia Art Foundation’s Reckoning

    Pride of Place: Looking for Michael Asher’s Los Angeles at MOCA
    Reviews June 18, 2026
    Melissa Lo

    Pride of Place: Looking for Michael Asher’s Los Angeles at MOCA

    Directly to the Adversary: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore at CAM St. Louis
    Reviews June 11, 2026
    Farrah Karapetian

    Directly to the Adversary: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore at CAM St. Louis

    You Might Just Call It Love: Mapping the World(s) of Paul Thek and Peter Hujar
    Reviews June 4, 2026
    Emma Fiona Jones

    You Might Just Call It Love: Mapping the World(s) of Paul Thek and Peter Hujar

    What Remains: The Fugitive Gestures of Carmen Neely at Mariane Ibrahim
    Reviews May 28, 2026
    Alexandra M. Thomas

    What Remains: The Fugitive Gestures of Carmen Neely at Mariane Ibrahim

    New Geographies of the Sacred: Lines That World a River at Nottingham Contemporary
    Reviews May 21, 2026
    Najrin Islam

    New Geographies of the Sacred: Lines That World a River at Nottingham Contemporary

    What it Means to Continue: On Gabrielle Goliath, Reparative Work, and Resisting State Violence
    Features May 14, 2026
    M. Neelika Jayawardane

    What it Means to Continue: On Gabrielle Goliath, Reparative Work, and Resisting State Violence

    A Trace of the Present in the Future: On Sam Sweet’s Invisible Los Angeles
    Features May 7, 2026
    Kate Wolf

    A Trace of the Present in the Future: On Sam Sweet’s Invisible Los Angeles

    Belonging to Ourselves: Lynn Hershman Leeson and Sophie Calle
    Reviews April 30, 2026
    Tara Anne Dalbow

    Belonging to Ourselves: Lynn Hershman Leeson and Sophie Calle

    A Love Song, in Protest: Joyce Joumaa at Galerie UQO
    Reviews April 29, 2026
    eunice bélidor

    A Love Song, in Protest: Joyce Joumaa at Galerie UQO

    Collision, Erosion: Roksana Pirouzmand at OXY Arts and JOAN
    Reviews April 23, 2026
    Teresa Fleming

    Collision, Erosion: Roksana Pirouzmand at OXY Arts and JOAN

    Momus Convening: To Build and Sustain
    June 26–27, 2026
    PHI
    Montreal

    Momus Convening: To Build and Sustain

    Psychodrama of Interiors: Fabrice Schneider at Établissement d’en Face
    Reviews April 9, 2026
    Bitsy Knox

    Psychodrama of Interiors: Fabrice Schneider at Établissement d’en Face

    Staying to the End: Gossip, Banter, and Loss in Peter Hujar’s Friendships
    Features April 2, 2026
    Harley Wong

    Staying to the End: Gossip, Banter, and Loss in Peter Hujar’s Friendships

    In Search of True Collectivity: Infrastructure and Intent at the Kochi-Muziri Biennale
    Features, Reviews March 26, 2026
    Pallavi Surana

    In Search of True Collectivity: Infrastructure and Intent at the Kochi-Muziri Biennale

    Tour de Farce: Pat Oleszko at SculptureCenter
    Reviews March 19, 2026
    Madeleine Seidel

    Tour de Farce: Pat Oleszko at SculptureCenter

    Momus Arts Journalism Residency

    Residency June 10–July 25, 2024

    Estuaries: An International Indigenous Art Criticism Residency

    Residency May 15–June 4, 2023
    Stefanie Jason

    Stefanie Jason

    Writing Relations, Making Futurities: Global Indigenous Art Criticism Residency

    Residency February 7-11, 2022 and March 14-18, 2022
    Nicole Kuʻuleinapuananiolikoawapuhimelemeleolani Furtado

    Nicole Kuʻuleinapuananiolikoawapuhimelemeleolani Furtado

    t.c. lynch

    t.c. lynch

    Momus Emerging Critics Residency 2021

    Residency August 9–20, 2021
    Nicky Ni

    Nicky Ni

    Surviving the Ache: Yifan Jiang at 56 Henry
    Reviews March 12, 2026
    Donasia Tillery

    Surviving the Ache: Yifan Jiang at 56 Henry

    Art Time / Life Time: On Tehching Hsieh’s Thirteen Year Plan
    Features March 6, 2026
    Lisa Hsiao Chen

    Art Time / Life Time: On Tehching Hsieh’s Thirteen Year Plan

    Charting an Inflection Point in Art Criticism & Publishing
    Talk April 12, 2024 6:00 PM
    Plural
    Montreal

    Charting an Inflection Point in Art Criticism & Publishing

    Moving Through the Rupture: Tehching Hsieh and Linda Montano Revisit Rope Piece
    Features March 4, 2026
    Eliza Swann

    Moving Through the Rupture: Tehching Hsieh and Linda Montano Revisit Rope Piece

    Unsettled Vision: Aaron Morse on the Fantasized West at Philip Martin Gallery
    Reviews February 26, 2026
    Lisa Locascio Nighthawk

    Unsettled Vision: Aaron Morse on the Fantasized West at Philip Martin Gallery

    Another Small Disturbance: Shannon Garden-Smith at MKG127
    Reviews February 12, 2026
    Sky Goodden

    Another Small Disturbance: Shannon Garden-Smith at MKG127

    Looking at Women: Gladys Nilsson’s Seriously Sexy Figures at the Menil Drawing Institute
    Reviews February 5, 2026
    Lauren Stroh

    Looking at Women: Gladys Nilsson’s Seriously Sexy Figures at the Menil Drawing Institute

    Without Deference: The Political Clarity of Coco Fusco at El Museo del Barrio
    Reviews January 22, 2026
    Luke Urbain

    Without Deference: The Political Clarity of Coco Fusco at El Museo del Barrio

    Body Believing: Jana Sterbak at Musée des Hospitalières and Esker Foundation
    Reviews January 15, 2026
    Sky Goodden

    Body Believing: Jana Sterbak at Musée des Hospitalières and Esker Foundation

    Potential of Other Worlds: Mystery, Lineage, and Los Angeles at AMPHI Gallery
    Reviews January 13, 2026
    Lisa Locascio Nighthawk

    Potential of Other Worlds: Mystery, Lineage, and Los Angeles at AMPHI Gallery

    History as a Chorus: Reimagining Monumentality at SITE Santa Fe
    Reviews January 8, 2026
    Ceci Moss

    History as a Chorus: Reimagining Monumentality at SITE Santa Fe

    Choosing How to be Seen: Lessons from Louise Nevelson’s Early Work
    Reviews December 15, 2025
    Ruby Sky Stiler

    Choosing How to be Seen: Lessons from Louise Nevelson’s Early Work

    Ruby Sky Stiler

    Ruby Sky Stiler

    Time Made Strange: Abbas Akhavan at the Belkin Art Gallery
    Reviews November 26, 2025
    Andrew Witt

    Time Made Strange: Abbas Akhavan at the Belkin Art Gallery

    Perfectly Imperfect: On Casa Susanna and Its Tender, Queer Entanglements
    Reviews November 20, 2025
    Emma Fiona Jones

    Perfectly Imperfect: On Casa Susanna and Its Tender, Queer Entanglements

    Call from Inside the House: Christina Forrer at Parker Gallery
    Reviews November 6, 2025
    Lisa Locascio Nighthawk

    Call from Inside the House: Christina Forrer at Parker Gallery

    Learning to Move Differently: Nadia Myre at the National Gallery of Canada
    Reviews October 30, 2025
    Alexandra Nordstrom

    Learning to Move Differently: Nadia Myre at the National Gallery of Canada

    Fellow Members of an Unfolding Constellation: Leilah Babirye at the de Young
    Reviews October 23, 2025
    Caroline Picard

    Fellow Members of an Unfolding Constellation: Leilah Babirye at the de Young

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    Extraordinary Living Begins Here: Artists Negotiate Large-Scale Infrastructure
    Features October 16, 2025
    Jade Meili Barget

    Extraordinary Living Begins Here: Artists Negotiate Large-Scale Infrastructure

    Risking Fear: Hamad Butt at Whitechapel Gallery
    Reviews October 9, 2025
    Tatum Howey

    Risking Fear: Hamad Butt at Whitechapel Gallery

    The Technologies of Art and War: Lucy Raven at Vancouver Art Gallery
    Reviews October 2, 2025
    Claudia Ross

    The Technologies of Art and War: Lucy Raven at Vancouver Art Gallery

    What a Book Can Do: On Editing Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason’s Monographs
    Features September 25, 2025
    Elisa Wouk Almino

    What a Book Can Do: On Editing Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason’s Monographs

    Myth and Reality Converge: Qiu Anxiong and Howie Tsui at Richmond Art Gallery
    Reviews September 23, 2025
    Lin Li

    Myth and Reality Converge: Qiu Anxiong and Howie Tsui at Richmond Art Gallery

    The All-Seeing Eyes of Carol Rama
    Reviews September 17, 2025
    Tara Anne Dalbow

    The All-Seeing Eyes of Carol Rama

    “Staying with the Trouble” at the Helsinki Biennial: Challenges of Environmental Curating
    Reviews September 11, 2025
    Katie Lawson

    “Staying with the Trouble” at the Helsinki Biennial: Challenges of Environmental Curating

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    Features, Reviews September 4, 2025
    Aaron Katzeman

    Jeffrey Gibson Saves America

    Programming the Diaspora: On How the Moving Image Shapes the Present
    Features August 21, 2025
    Nasrin Himada

    Programming the Diaspora: On How the Moving Image Shapes the Present

    Love Letter Incinerators: Martin Wong’s Prison Paintings
    Features August 14, 2025
    Ramona Ngin

    Love Letter Incinerators: Martin Wong’s Prison Paintings

    Jack Whitten, Human Xerox Machine
    Features, Reviews August 1, 2025
    Elizabeth Wiet

    Jack Whitten, Human Xerox Machine

    “I Always Wanted to Participate”: In Conversation with Vijay Masharani
    Features July 25, 2025
    Mimi Howard

    “I Always Wanted to Participate”: In Conversation with Vijay Masharani

    A Note on Omission: Navigating Institutional Censorship and the Need for Repair
    Features July 17, 2025
    Najrin Islam

    A Note on Omission: Navigating Institutional Censorship and the Need for Repair

    The Close-Up Reveals Nothing: How Deborah-Joyce Holman Complicates Interiority
    Features July 10, 2025
    Gervais Marsh

    The Close-Up Reveals Nothing: How Deborah-Joyce Holman Complicates Interiority

    A Model for Risk-Taking: Arthur Tress’s Grotesque Allegory of a Presidential Cabinet
    Features July 3, 2025
    Jackson Davidow

    A Model for Risk-Taking: Arthur Tress’s Grotesque Allegory of a Presidential Cabinet

    Implied Threat, Implied Responsibility: Elizabeth Catlett at the National Gallery of Art
    Reviews June 26, 2025
    MacKenzie River Foy

    Implied Threat, Implied Responsibility: Elizabeth Catlett at the National Gallery of Art

    End of the World: Revisiting a Lost Future at Spiral Jetty
    Features June 19, 2025
    Sarah Hollenberg

    End of the World: Revisiting a Lost Future at Spiral Jetty

    Improvising at the Edge of the World: Joan Jonas at the Gund
    Reviews June 12, 2025
    Miciah Hussey

    Improvising at the Edge of the World: Joan Jonas at the Gund

    A Punk-Rock Polyglot: The Subversive Riffing of Carole Caroompas
    Reviews June 5, 2025
    Paula Mejía

    A Punk-Rock Polyglot: The Subversive Riffing of Carole Caroompas

    The Breathing Field of Marlon Kroll
    Reviews May 29, 2025
    Qing Sheng

    The Breathing Field of Marlon Kroll

    To Ensure the Record Can Never Be Whitewashed: Honoring Nona Faustine
    Features May 22, 2025
    Alexandra M. Thomas

    To Ensure the Record Can Never Be Whitewashed: Honoring Nona Faustine

    We Are the Same Thing: The Sutured Selves of María Magdalena Campos-Pons
    Reviews May 8, 2025
    Allison Noelle Conner

    We Are the Same Thing: The Sutured Selves of María Magdalena Campos-Pons

    Havensong (after and for heidi andrea restrepo rhodes and Diana SeoHyung)
    Features May 1, 2025
    JJJJJerome Ellis

    Havensong (after and for heidi andrea restrepo rhodes and Diana SeoHyung)

    가는 길: Decision to Leave / On Leaving / Leaving
    Features April 28, 2025
    Diana SeoHyung

    가는 길: Decision to Leave / On Leaving / Leaving

    Dreams Being Real: EDELO’s Frontline Resistance
    Reviews April 17, 2025
    Brian Karl

    Dreams Being Real: EDELO’s Frontline Resistance

    For Pleasure and Pictures: Robert Andy Coombs, His Critics, and the Language of Ableism
    Features April 4, 2025
    Erin F. O'Leary

    For Pleasure and Pictures: Robert Andy Coombs, His Critics, and the Language of Ableism

    Remembering Kelly Mark
    Features March 25, 2025
    Sky Goodden

    Remembering Kelly Mark

    As Flight or Escape: Ralph Lemon at MoMA PS1
    Reviews March 21, 2025
    Re'al Christian

    As Flight or Escape: Ralph Lemon at MoMA PS1

    A Very Real American Place: The Suburban Unconscious in Mike Kelley
    Reviews March 6, 2025
    Simon Wu

    A Very Real American Place: The Suburban Unconscious in Mike Kelley

    Lineage and Light: Rose Marie Cromwell’s “A Geological Survey”
    Features February 27, 2025
    Monica Uszerowicz

    Lineage and Light: Rose Marie Cromwell’s “A Geological Survey”

    On Weather and the Archive: Sofía Gallisá Muriente and Tony Cruz Pabón
    Features, Reviews February 21, 2025
    Alexandra Méndez García

    On Weather and the Archive: Sofía Gallisá Muriente and Tony Cruz Pabón

    Ritual Maintenance: Edges and Encounters with Tina Girouard
    Features, Reviews February 13, 2025
    Diana SeoHyung

    Ritual Maintenance: Edges and Encounters with Tina Girouard

    Disposability, Divestment, and Action: The Palestine Solidarity Movement and the State of Art in Toronto
    Features February 5, 2025
    Tiana Reid

    Disposability, Divestment, and Action: The Palestine Solidarity Movement and the State of Art in Toronto

    The Wish in Yong Soon Min’s KISSSSS
    Reviews January 17, 2025
    Summer Kim Lee

    The Wish in Yong Soon Min’s KISSSSS

    Arenas of Freedom
    Reviews December 20, 2024
    Claudia La Rocco

    Arenas of Freedom

    Swelling Time: Sam Tam Ham Probes the Prime Meridian
    Reviews December 12, 2024
    Claire Voon

    Swelling Time: Sam Tam Ham Probes the Prime Meridian

    Sinister and Playful: Anne Duk Hee Jordan at Canal Projects
    Reviews November 29, 2024
    Cat Dawson

    Sinister and Playful: Anne Duk Hee Jordan at Canal Projects

    Kelly Lycan’s Objects in Waiting
    Features November 12, 2024
    Sky Goodden

    Kelly Lycan’s Objects in Waiting

    Spaces of Doubt: Ursula Biemann at MUAC
    Reviews November 4, 2024
    David Ayala-Alfonso

    Spaces of Doubt: Ursula Biemann at MUAC

    Dempsey Bob is Waking Up
    Features October 28, 2024
    Napatsi Folger

    Dempsey Bob is Waking Up

    Divya Mehra, Stirring and Whirring Colonialism’s Ghosts
    Reviews October 17, 2024
    Allison Noelle Conner

    Divya Mehra, Stirring and Whirring Colonialism’s Ghosts

    On Not Lasting: Diaries, Loss, and the Art of Eva Hesse
    Features October 12, 2024
    Lauren Stroh

    On Not Lasting: Diaries, Loss, and the Art of Eva Hesse

    Unplugged Games: Poetry as Resistance in Yanko González Cangas
    Reviews October 4, 2024
    Ignacio Szmulewicz R.

    Unplugged Games: Poetry as Resistance in Yanko González Cangas

    Invasion from Mars: On the Charged Personae of Shelly Mars
    Features September 27, 2024
    Gyula Muskovics

    Invasion from Mars: On the Charged Personae of Shelly Mars

    Daddy Says: Ed Ruscha in Other Words
    Reviews September 11, 2024
    Rachel Elizabeth Jones

    Daddy Says: Ed Ruscha in Other Words

    Sidestepping Violence: The German Pavilion’s Failure to See the Present in the Past
    Reviews September 5, 2024
    Julie Weitz

    Sidestepping Violence: The German Pavilion’s Failure to See the Present in the Past

    Peter Hujar’s Still Life in Motion
    Reviews August 28, 2024
    Miciah Hussey

    Peter Hujar’s Still Life in Motion

    Reviewing the Reviews: The 2024 Whitney Biennial
    Features, Reviews August 15, 2024
    Jessica Lynne, Catherine G. Wagley

    Reviewing the Reviews: The 2024 Whitney Biennial

    Goodbye to Berlin
    Features, Reviews July 31, 2024
    Sholem Krishtalka

    Goodbye to Berlin

    Romantic and Brawling: On Four Chicago Artists
    Features, Reviews July 25, 2024
    Jeremy Lybarger

    Romantic and Brawling: On Four Chicago Artists

    The Possessions of Paul Pfeiffer
    Reviews July 11, 2024
    Simon Wu

    The Possessions of Paul Pfeiffer

    Pacita Abad Sees the Soul of an Artifact
    Features, Reviews July 5, 2024
    Enzo Escober

    Pacita Abad Sees the Soul of an Artifact

    Paper Abstractions: Virginia Jaramillo’s Social Theory
    Reviews June 28, 2024
    Michael Dango

    Paper Abstractions: Virginia Jaramillo’s Social Theory

    There is the Rising: Shelley Niro’s Reckoning Retrospective
    Reviews June 7, 2024
    Salma Hussain

    There is the Rising: Shelley Niro’s Reckoning Retrospective

    Radical Looking: Newly Seeing Art With My Baby
    Features May 30, 2024
    Maya Mackrandilal

    Radical Looking: Newly Seeing Art With My Baby

    REDCAT’s Rediscovery of the Iconic Feminist Art Program
    Features, Reviews May 24, 2024
    Catherine G. Wagley

    REDCAT’s Rediscovery of the Iconic Feminist Art Program

    Loosening the Stays
    Features May 15, 2024
    Claudia La Rocco

    Loosening the Stays

    Changing the Ground: Amy Sillman Talks About Painting
    Features May 3, 2024
    Jason Stopa

    Changing the Ground: Amy Sillman Talks About Painting

    A Feeling Between the Lines: The Anxious Influence of Agnes Martin’s “Writings”
    Features, Reviews April 26, 2024
    Terry Nguyen

    A Feeling Between the Lines: The Anxious Influence of Agnes Martin’s “Writings”

    On the Sense of Queer Loneliness: Sacha Yanow’s “Uncle!” at The Kitchen
    Reviews April 17, 2024
    Miciah Hussey

    On the Sense of Queer Loneliness: Sacha Yanow’s “Uncle!” at The Kitchen

    Embraced by an Amniotic Earth: Delcy Morelos at Dia Chelsea
    Reviews April 8, 2024
    Jessica Simmons-Reid

    Embraced by an Amniotic Earth: Delcy Morelos at Dia Chelsea

    Caroline Monnet’s Uneasy Objects
    Reviews April 4, 2024
    Kirsty Robertson

    Caroline Monnet’s Uneasy Objects

    Falling From the Tower: Levani on the Necessity of Endings
    Features March 29, 2024
    Gyula Muskovics

    Falling From the Tower: Levani on the Necessity of Endings

    Can We Tune the Museum? Laurie Spiegel and Other Experiments in Spatializing Sound
    Features, Reviews March 21, 2024
    Mariana Fernández

    Can We Tune the Museum? Laurie Spiegel and Other Experiments in Spatializing Sound

    She Was Paying Attention: Remembering Alexis Smith
    Features March 9, 2024
    Kate Wolf

    She Was Paying Attention: Remembering Alexis Smith

    Do You Believe in Aliens?: Re-Indigenizing the Algorithmic Tropes of Intelligence
    Features February 29, 2024
    Kira Xonorika

    Do You Believe in Aliens?: Re-Indigenizing the Algorithmic Tropes of Intelligence

    Our Visuality: Abortion Care Work and Photography
    Features February 23, 2024
    Carmen Winant

    Our Visuality: Abortion Care Work and Photography

    Abstraction, Legibility, and Desire in the Work of Brenda Draney
    Features, Reviews February 14, 2024
    Lois Taylor Biggs

    Abstraction, Legibility, and Desire in the Work of Brenda Draney

    Magical/Market Thinking: Reflecting on the Rise and Fall of Artscape
    Features February 2, 2024
    Caitlin Jones

    Magical/Market Thinking: Reflecting on the Rise and Fall of Artscape

    When Feminisms and Futurisms Collide: Judy Chicago and Puppies Puppies at New Museum
    Reviews January 19, 2024
    Harley Wong

    When Feminisms and Futurisms Collide: Judy Chicago and Puppies Puppies at New Museum

    They Made Him Gray: The Whitney Museum Dims Artist and Mystic Harry Smith
    Reviews December 12, 2023
    Eliza Swann

    They Made Him Gray: The Whitney Museum Dims Artist and Mystic Harry Smith

    Through the Looking Glass: Distortion and the Fantasy of a Feminist Nude
    Features, Reviews November 30, 2023
    Jenny Wu

    Through the Looking Glass: Distortion and the Fantasy of a Feminist Nude

    Forms of Echo: Sónia Vaz Borges & Filipa César Draw from a Sense-Memory Educational Legacy
    Features November 23, 2023
    Minh Nguyen

    Forms of Echo: Sónia Vaz Borges & Filipa César Draw from a Sense-Memory Educational Legacy

    From Cinematic to Static: Isa Genzken’s 75/75 Retrospective in Berlin
    Reviews November 14, 2023
    M. Folescu

    From Cinematic to Static: Isa Genzken’s 75/75 Retrospective in Berlin

    Fought Through Women’s Bodies: Mona Hatoum’s Early Performances
    Reviews November 9, 2023
    Michael Dango

    Fought Through Women’s Bodies: Mona Hatoum’s Early Performances

    Claire Morgan’s “Dead Weight” in Paris
    Reviews November 2, 2023
    Margaret Carrigan

    Claire Morgan’s “Dead Weight” in Paris

    A Goodbye to Former Selves: Uncategorizing Sonja Ahlers
    Reviews October 27, 2023
    Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora

    A Goodbye to Former Selves: Uncategorizing Sonja Ahlers

    Tracking the Sapphic Social Imaginaries: Lesbian Art in Print
    Features October 16, 2023
    Cassie Packard

    Tracking the Sapphic Social Imaginaries: Lesbian Art in Print

    Christina Sharpe’s Perpetual Present
    Reviews September 20, 2023
    Ruth Gebreyesus

    Christina Sharpe’s Perpetual Present

    “A Multiculti Blitzkrieg”: On the Ascendance of the Curator of Color
    Features September 8, 2023
    Simon Wu

    “A Multiculti Blitzkrieg”: On the Ascendance of the Curator of Color

    We’re Alive, Pablo Is Dead
    Features, Reviews August 22, 2023
    Elisabeth Nicula

    We’re Alive, Pablo Is Dead

    The Polyphonous Calls for Land (and Land Back) of Manuel Axel Strain
    Features, Reviews August 5, 2023
    Leo Cocar

    The Polyphonous Calls for Land (and Land Back) of Manuel Axel Strain

    Dataspace: From the Observed Object to the Participating Subject
    Features July 28, 2023
    Doreen A. Rios

    Dataspace: From the Observed Object to the Participating Subject

    The Art of Accumulation in an Age of Decluttering
    Features July 18, 2023
    Mimi Wong

    The Art of Accumulation in an Age of Decluttering

    June Clark’s Perseverance of Memory
    Features July 11, 2023
    Jessica Lynne

    June Clark’s Perseverance of Memory

    A Clinic the Size of the World
    Features, Reviews June 15, 2023
    Rouzbeh Shadpey

    A Clinic the Size of the World

    An Alien Echo at the Gwangju Biennale
    Reviews June 8, 2023
    X. Amy Zhang

    An Alien Echo at the Gwangju Biennale

    Between Language and Cure: Athena Papadopoulos at MOCA Toronto
    Reviews June 1, 2023
    Tiana Reid

    Between Language and Cure: Athena Papadopoulos at MOCA Toronto

    Working It
    Features, Reviews May 25, 2023
    Kate Wolf

    Working It

    Evidence of Things Seen*: Capture and Control in India
    Features May 22, 2023
    Arushi Vats

    Evidence of Things Seen*: Capture and Control in India

    Bad Reviews
    Features, Reviews May 2, 2023
    Elisabeth Nicula

    Bad Reviews

    Finding One Another in Misrecognition: Summer Kim Lee Meets Catalina Ouyang
    Features April 28, 2023
    Catalina Ouyang, Summer Kim Lee

    Finding One Another in Misrecognition: Summer Kim Lee Meets Catalina Ouyang

    Azza El Siddique Summons Life Beyond Death
    Reviews April 19, 2023
    Chelsea Rozansky

    Azza El Siddique Summons Life Beyond Death

    Solitary: Collective Authorship and its Discontents
    Features, Reviews April 12, 2023
    Jenny Wu

    Solitary: Collective Authorship and its Discontents

    Never Risky: Seeking New Life at the Singapore Biennale
    Reviews March 22, 2023
    Andrew Russeth

    Never Risky: Seeking New Life at the Singapore Biennale

    The Soft Syncretism of Tau Lewis
    Reviews March 15, 2023
    Darla Migan

    The Soft Syncretism of Tau Lewis

    The Preserving Machine of Matthias Groebel
    Reviews March 9, 2023
    Sterre Barentsen

    The Preserving Machine of Matthias Groebel

    Out of Necessity and Out of Love: Andrea Fatona’s 30-Year Tribute to Black Canadian Women
    Reviews March 2, 2023
    Neil Price

    Out of Necessity and Out of Love: Andrea Fatona’s 30-Year Tribute to Black Canadian Women

    Violence and Vibes Haunt Museum London’s “Spectral”
    Reviews February 23, 2023
    Alex Borkowski

    Violence and Vibes Haunt Museum London’s “Spectral”

    Failure in Infinitives: A Remembrance of Bernadette Mayer
    Features February 16, 2023
    Eliza Swann

    Failure in Infinitives: A Remembrance of Bernadette Mayer

    “The Non-Places Are the Places”: Manifesta 14’s Uneasy Presence in Kosovo
    Reviews February 12, 2023
    Ryan Ferko

    “The Non-Places Are the Places”: Manifesta 14’s Uneasy Presence in Kosovo

    It’s All About Good Timing: Goodwater at the Plumb
    Features, Reviews February 7, 2023
    Ella Dawn McGeough

    It’s All About Good Timing: Goodwater at the Plumb

    All Positions Possible: Simone Forti Across Time, Through Community
    Features January 31, 2023
    Catherine G. Wagley

    All Positions Possible: Simone Forti Across Time, Through Community

    Portrait of the Artist as a Young Thief
    Features, Reviews January 6, 2023
    Jenny Wu

    Portrait of the Artist as a Young Thief

    “We’re All Tied to the Place That We’re From”: Celebrating 50 Years with Equinox Gallery
    Features December 22, 2022
    Sky Goodden

    “We’re All Tied to the Place That We’re From”: Celebrating 50 Years with Equinox Gallery

    Common Boundaries and Refused Exits: Aman Sandhu and Andrew Black
    Reviews December 19, 2022
    Megan Switzer

    Common Boundaries and Refused Exits: Aman Sandhu and Andrew Black

    Reviewing the Reviews: Documenta 15
    Features, Reviews December 10, 2022
    Rahel Aima and Catherine G. Wagley

    Reviewing the Reviews: Documenta 15

    The Remains of the Day: Nadia Belerique in Glasgow
    Reviews November 21, 2022
    Calum Sutherland

    The Remains of the Day: Nadia Belerique in Glasgow

    A Distance That I Cannot Seem to Close
    Features November 8, 2022
    Diana SeoHyung

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    Anique Jordan, Michèle Pearson Clarke

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    Reviews September 28, 2018
    Erica Dawn Lyle

    A Study in American Denial: David Wojnarowicz’s Return to the Piers

    Carolee Schneemann’s Ethics of Eros
    Features, Reviews September 20, 2018
    Jonelle Mannion

    Carolee Schneemann’s Ethics of Eros

    Confronting Gender Imbalance at the Rencontres d’Arles
    Features September 13, 2018
    Naomi Rea

    Confronting Gender Imbalance at the Rencontres d’Arles

    A Return to What?
    Features September 7, 2018
    Sky Goodden, Casey Beal

    A Return to What?

    O Narciso: The Streets Look Back at Hudinilson Jr.
    Reviews September 5, 2018
    Philip Monk

    O Narciso: The Streets Look Back at Hudinilson Jr.

    A Pile of Dirt
    Features August 28, 2018
    Josh Thorpe

    A Pile of Dirt

    What to Do About Klaus: How Arts Communities Assert Their Agency
    Features August 10, 2018
    Catherine G. Wagley

    What to Do About Klaus: How Arts Communities Assert Their Agency

    Recognition and Reckoning: Montreal’s Alternative Art Spaces at the Crossroads
    Features, Reviews July 27, 2018
    Saelan Twerdy

    Recognition and Reckoning: Montreal’s Alternative Art Spaces at the Crossroads

    Traumatizing the Museum: An Interview with Joshua Schwebel
    Features July 13, 2018
    Jon Davies, Joshua Schwebel

    Traumatizing the Museum: An Interview with Joshua Schwebel

    Courting Exhaustion: Manifesta’s Dog Days
    Reviews July 6, 2018
    Kristian Vistrup Madsen

    Courting Exhaustion: Manifesta’s Dog Days

    Chinese Futures for American Eyes at the Guggenheim
    Reviews June 29, 2018
    Elliat Albrecht

    Chinese Futures for American Eyes at the Guggenheim

    Behind the Curtain: Beatriz González’s Political-Decorative Art
    Reviews June 27, 2018
    Juan José Santos

    Behind the Curtain: Beatriz González’s Political-Decorative Art

    Cruising for Sex in the Garden of Eden: Architecture and Desire in Venice
    Reviews June 23, 2018
    Alison Hugill

    Cruising for Sex in the Garden of Eden: Architecture and Desire in Venice

    The Manner of Their Dying
    Features June 15, 2018
    Andy Patton

    The Manner of Their Dying

    “Whitewalling,” Mishearing, and Translating Protest
    Reviews June 8, 2018
    Casey Beal

    “Whitewalling,” Mishearing, and Translating Protest

    Touch, Desire, and the Trinket Box: Celia Perrin Sidarous Shifts Time
    Reviews June 1, 2018
    Saelan Twerdy

    Touch, Desire, and the Trinket Box: Celia Perrin Sidarous Shifts Time

    Are We Being Preached To? Adrian Piper’s Prompts at the MoMA
    Reviews May 24, 2018
    Tausif Noor

    Are We Being Preached To? Adrian Piper’s Prompts at the MoMA

    How to Make Art History
    Features May 18, 2018
    Andrew Berardini

    How to Make Art History

    Nick Mauss’s Continental Divide
    Reviews May 11, 2018
    Charlie Markbreiter

    Nick Mauss’s Continental Divide

    What is to be Learned, What is to be Done? Thomas Hirschhorn at the Remai Modern
    Features, Reviews May 4, 2018
    Mitch Speed

    What is to be Learned, What is to be Done? Thomas Hirschhorn at the Remai Modern

    New Forms for New Crises: The Need for a New Ecological Representation
    Features, Reviews April 26, 2018
    Thea Ballard

    New Forms for New Crises: The Need for a New Ecological Representation

    Christina Catherine Martinez

    Christina Catherine Martinez

    Embarrassed Celebrity: Laurie Simmons’s Feature Debut
    Reviews April 18, 2018
    Christina Catherine Martinez

    Embarrassed Celebrity: Laurie Simmons’s Feature Debut

    How to Stop Working Better
    Features April 9, 2018
    Andrew Berardini

    How to Stop Working Better

    Virginia Woolf: Thinking Back Through Our Mothers at the Tate
    Features April 5, 2018
    Laura Smith

    Virginia Woolf: Thinking Back Through Our Mothers at the Tate

    Too, Too Solid Flesh: An Interview-Collage with Judith Supine
    Features March 30, 2018
    Melanie Janisse-Barlow

    Too, Too Solid Flesh: An Interview-Collage with Judith Supine

    An Always Fractured Order: Hal Foster’s Unromantic Avant-Garde
    Features March 26, 2018
    Ben Davis

    An Always Fractured Order: Hal Foster’s Unromantic Avant-Garde

    The Trouble with Occupying Others: Althea Thauberger Confronts the Violence of the Archive
    Features, Reviews March 23, 2018
    Mark Mann

    The Trouble with Occupying Others: Althea Thauberger Confronts the Violence of the Archive

    Worst-Case Scenarios: Contemporary Art’s #Metoo Handwringing
    Features March 21, 2018
    Aruna D'Souza

    Worst-Case Scenarios: Contemporary Art’s #Metoo Handwringing

    Painting “From Here”: Susanna Heller at Olga Korper
    Reviews March 15, 2018
    Sky Goodden

    Painting “From Here”: Susanna Heller at Olga Korper

    Naming “Where is Here”: Ed Zelenak at Christopher Cutts
    Reviews March 15, 2018
    Sky Goodden

    Naming “Where is Here”: Ed Zelenak at Christopher Cutts

    America Meredith, Lori Blondeau, and Raven Chacon Remember James Luna (1950-2018)
    Features March 13, 2018
    America Meredith, Lori Blondeau, Adrian Stimson

    America Meredith, Lori Blondeau, and Raven Chacon Remember James Luna (1950-2018)

    “More Than Those Who Despised Her”: Unforgetting on the Prairies
    Features March 9, 2018
    Mitch Speed

    “More Than Those Who Despised Her”: Unforgetting on the Prairies

    The Hopeful Phantasmagoria of “The Museum Took a Few Minutes to Collect Itself”
    Reviews March 3, 2018
    Marcus Civin

    The Hopeful Phantasmagoria of “The Museum Took a Few Minutes to Collect Itself”

    How to Toil in Obscurity
    Features February 22, 2018
    Andrew Berardini

    How to Toil in Obscurity

    Faulty Infrastructure: New Orleans’s Triennial Can’t Commit
    Reviews February 19, 2018
    Eva Díaz

    Faulty Infrastructure: New Orleans’s Triennial Can’t Commit

    Dubious Icons: Godheads, Messiahs, and the Artist as Celebrity
    Features, Reviews February 9, 2018
    Mitch Speed

    Dubious Icons: Godheads, Messiahs, and the Artist as Celebrity

    “Afrogallonism” Takes Dubai: South-South Solidarity and the Urge to Exoticize
    Reviews February 7, 2018
    Rahel Aima

    “Afrogallonism” Takes Dubai: South-South Solidarity and the Urge to Exoticize

    The Listening Gaze: Raymond Gervais (1946-2018)
    Features January 31, 2018
    Raymond Gervais

    The Listening Gaze: Raymond Gervais (1946-2018)

    “Seen Anything Good?” The Burden of Biennial Excess
    Features January 12, 2018
    Hettie Judah

    “Seen Anything Good?” The Burden of Biennial Excess

    “Speaking from a Wound”: Jesse Darling on Faith, Crisis, and Refusal
    Features January 9, 2018
    Saelan Twerdy

    “Speaking from a Wound”: Jesse Darling on Faith, Crisis, and Refusal

    Mourning at the Museum: Montreal’s Post-Sincere Send-Off for Leonard Cohen
    Reviews December 21, 2017
    Casey Beal

    Mourning at the Museum: Montreal’s Post-Sincere Send-Off for Leonard Cohen

    Crocodile Tears: Ed Atkins and the Crisis of Pathetic Masculinity
    Reviews December 15, 2017
    Mitch Speed

    Crocodile Tears: Ed Atkins and the Crisis of Pathetic Masculinity

    Does the Sublime Know Change? Updating Landscape for the Anthropocene
    Reviews December 6, 2017
    Riva Symko

    Does the Sublime Know Change? Updating Landscape for the Anthropocene

    Darkling Futures and Desert Hangover at the New SITE Sante Fe
    Features, Reviews December 1, 2017
    Andrew Berardini

    Darkling Futures and Desert Hangover at the New SITE Sante Fe

    Everybody Knows: Prada Foundation’s Stylish Cynicism
    Reviews November 23, 2017
    Catherine G. Wagley

    Everybody Knows: Prada Foundation’s Stylish Cynicism

    Joseph Tisiga Unsettles Exoticism with Mythic Force at Parisian Laundry
    Reviews November 14, 2017
    Mark Mann

    Joseph Tisiga Unsettles Exoticism with Mythic Force at Parisian Laundry

    “Pacific Standard Time” Writes Overlooked Chicano Artists Back Into Art History
    Reviews November 7, 2017
    Catherine G. Wagley

    “Pacific Standard Time” Writes Overlooked Chicano Artists Back Into Art History

    How (Not) To Retrospect: Beverly Buchanan in Brooklyn and Georgia
    Reviews November 3, 2017
    Jordan Amirkhani

    How (Not) To Retrospect: Beverly Buchanan in Brooklyn and Georgia

    Real Bodies: A Tribute to Linda Nochlin
    Features October 30, 2017
    Aruna D'Souza

    Real Bodies: A Tribute to Linda Nochlin

    Risking Pop-Solipsism, Moyra Davey Gets Earnest in Berlin
    Reviews October 23, 2017
    Mitch Speed

    Risking Pop-Solipsism, Moyra Davey Gets Earnest in Berlin

    Remnant Intuition: Contemporary Turns on the Grace of Still Life
    Reviews October 13, 2017
    E.C. Woodley

    Remnant Intuition: Contemporary Turns on the Grace of Still Life

    White Like Me: Encountering Divya Mehra’s “You have to tell Them, i’m not a Racist”
    Reviews October 12, 2017
    Mark Mann

    White Like Me: Encountering Divya Mehra’s “You have to tell Them, i’m not a Racist”

    The Strangeness of the Everyday: Skulptur Projekte Münster’s Deep Grey
    Reviews October 6, 2017
    Juan José Santos

    The Strangeness of the Everyday: Skulptur Projekte Münster’s Deep Grey

    Do Androids Dream of Representative Art?
    Reviews October 4, 2017
    Kanad Chakrabarti

    Do Androids Dream of Representative Art?

    Fake News, Bad Art
    Features, Reviews September 27, 2017
    Tausif Noor

    Fake News, Bad Art

    For Common and Decent Things: Resisting Co-opted “Collaboration”
    Features September 22, 2017
    Owen Duffy

    For Common and Decent Things: Resisting Co-opted “Collaboration”

    Spoiled Roots: Mark Bradford and the Erasure of Community
    Features September 20, 2017
    Catherine G. Wagley

    Spoiled Roots: Mark Bradford and the Erasure of Community

    The Personal and Political Wrestle it Out in Kara Walker’s Rebellious New Show
    Reviews September 15, 2017
    Aruna D'Souza

    The Personal and Political Wrestle it Out in Kara Walker’s Rebellious New Show

    Performance Art Blows Open the Prairies, in “Stages”
    Reviews September 14, 2017
    Mitch Speed

    Performance Art Blows Open the Prairies, in “Stages”

    Momus Best-Of Volume 3: 2016-17
    Features August 21, 2017
    Sky Goodden

    Momus Best-Of Volume 3: 2016-17

    A Shattered Mirror: Geoffrey Farmer’s Disobedient Object in Venice
    Reviews August 16, 2017
    Andrew Witt

    A Shattered Mirror: Geoffrey Farmer’s Disobedient Object in Venice

    Place, Space, or Backdrop: The Dilemma of Desert X, the “Coachella Biennial”
    Features, Reviews August 9, 2017
    Monica Westin

    Place, Space, or Backdrop: The Dilemma of Desert X, the “Coachella Biennial”

    Post-Confessional: The Aging Intimacies of Sophie Calle
    Features, Reviews August 2, 2017
    Sarah Burke

    Post-Confessional: The Aging Intimacies of Sophie Calle

    Art at the Border: Cutting for Signs in Pace Gallery’s “Border Cantos”
    Reviews July 26, 2017
    Rob Goyanes

    Art at the Border: Cutting for Signs in Pace Gallery’s “Border Cantos”

    That’s the Way to Do It!: The Fairy Tale Life of Ydessa Hendeles
    Features, Reviews July 18, 2017
    Philip Monk

    That’s the Way to Do It!: The Fairy Tale Life of Ydessa Hendeles

    Hélio Oiticica’s Journey From Art Visionary to Coke Dealer and Back Again
    Features July 14, 2017
    Ben Davis

    Hélio Oiticica’s Journey From Art Visionary to Coke Dealer and Back Again

    The Intimate Dangers of Reading Georgia O’Keeffe Through a Blouse
    Features, Reviews July 13, 2017
    Melissa Wyse

    The Intimate Dangers of Reading Georgia O’Keeffe Through a Blouse

    “Made in Germany”: Can the Artworld Have a Nation?
    Features, Reviews July 7, 2017
    Kristian Vistrup Madsen

    “Made in Germany”: Can the Artworld Have a Nation?

    Courting Crisis: Condescension, Disaster Tourism, and “Learning from Athens”
    Reviews July 5, 2017
    Alison Hugill

    Courting Crisis: Condescension, Disaster Tourism, and “Learning from Athens”

    White Space, Black Spectacle at MASS MoCA
    Features June 29, 2017
    Aruna D'Souza

    White Space, Black Spectacle at MASS MoCA

    Nonsense! She Said: Marvin Gaye Chetwynd Pantomimes Politics in Paris
    Reviews June 27, 2017
    Philip Monk

    Nonsense! She Said: Marvin Gaye Chetwynd Pantomimes Politics in Paris

    Wu Tsang, Eileen Myles, and Me: Reading Zoe Leonard’s “I Want a President”
    Features, Reviews June 22, 2017
    Mitch Speed

    Wu Tsang, Eileen Myles, and Me: Reading Zoe Leonard’s “I Want a President”

    Sound/Off: Uneasy Listening at documenta 14 in Kassel
    Reviews June 21, 2017
    Tausif Noor

    Sound/Off: Uneasy Listening at documenta 14 in Kassel

    The Abject Intimacies of Chris Curreri
    Reviews June 8, 2017
    Sky Goodden

    The Abject Intimacies of Chris Curreri

    The Center Holds: Bruce High Quality Foundation’s Accidental Gulf Nativism
    Reviews June 7, 2017
    Rahel Aima

    The Center Holds: Bruce High Quality Foundation’s Accidental Gulf Nativism

    A Parasitic ‘joie de vivre’ in “Viva Arte Viva”
    Features, Reviews May 30, 2017
    Mitch Speed

    A Parasitic ‘joie de vivre’ in “Viva Arte Viva”

    What Happened to the Anthropocene? Searching the 57th Venice Biennale for Signs of Destruction
    Reviews May 17, 2017
    John Holten

    What Happened to the Anthropocene? Searching the 57th Venice Biennale for Signs of Destruction

    “Science Truth” and Fearless Feminism in Lynn Hershman Leeson’s “Civic Radar”
    Reviews May 12, 2017
    Wendy Vogel

    “Science Truth” and Fearless Feminism in Lynn Hershman Leeson’s “Civic Radar”

    “She Comes in Colors”: A Portrait of Sarah Cain, Painter
    Features May 10, 2017
    Andrew Berardini

    “She Comes in Colors”: A Portrait of Sarah Cain, Painter

    Gallerist Virginia Dwan, the Reluctant Legend
    Features, Reviews May 5, 2017
    Catherine G. Wagley

    Gallerist Virginia Dwan, the Reluctant Legend

    Modernist Frederick Kiesler is “Rediscovered” Between Abstraction and Compromise
    Reviews May 2, 2017
    Kristian Vistrup Madsen

    Modernist Frederick Kiesler is “Rediscovered” Between Abstraction and Compromise

    The Tonal Ambivalence of Feminist Land Art Retreat
    Features April 26, 2017
    Alison Hugill

    The Tonal Ambivalence of Feminist Land Art Retreat

    The Enduring Popularity of Fictional Critic “Madame Realism”
    Features April 14, 2017
    Mitch Speed

    The Enduring Popularity of Fictional Critic “Madame Realism”

    What Kind of Criticism Do We Need Now? Coming to Terms with Teju Cole’s “Known and Strange Things”
    Reviews April 7, 2017
    Casey Beal

    What Kind of Criticism Do We Need Now? Coming to Terms with Teju Cole’s “Known and Strange Things”

    How To Write a Review
    Features March 28, 2017
    Andrew Berardini

    How To Write a Review

    Stay on It: Maintaining Julius Eastman’s Radical Desire
    Reviews March 24, 2017
    Mitch Speed

    Stay on It: Maintaining Julius Eastman’s Radical Desire

    Where the Bodies Go: Lili Huston-Herterich’s Poem to the Power of Community
    Reviews March 22, 2017
    Sky Goodden

    Where the Bodies Go: Lili Huston-Herterich’s Poem to the Power of Community

    Abrasion and Collision: On History’s Steps with Robert Rauschenberg, at the Tate
    Features March 17, 2017
    Richard Wentworth

    Abrasion and Collision: On History’s Steps with Robert Rauschenberg, at the Tate

    Forcing the Fortuitous: Tacita Dean Searches for Luck
    Reviews March 10, 2017
    Juan José Santos

    Forcing the Fortuitous: Tacita Dean Searches for Luck

    What Is an Art Fair Doing Asking “What Is To Be Done?”
    Features March 8, 2017
    Sky Goodden

    What Is an Art Fair Doing Asking “What Is To Be Done?”

    As Both Dancer and Texter: Julien Prévieux Choreographs Our Changing Bodies
    Reviews March 3, 2017
    Fabien Maltais-Bayda

    As Both Dancer and Texter: Julien Prévieux Choreographs Our Changing Bodies

    The Pulsing Body Wants of Jasmine Reimer
    Reviews February 24, 2017
    Sky Goodden

    The Pulsing Body Wants of Jasmine Reimer

    How Do We Decolonize Desire? Evelyn Taocheng Wang Massages Difficult Truths at Château Shatto
    Reviews February 22, 2017
    Hyunjee Nicole Kim

    How Do We Decolonize Desire? Evelyn Taocheng Wang Massages Difficult Truths at Château Shatto

    With the Logic of Vegas, the Seduction of Art: Hadar Kleiman’s Cheap Desirability in San Francisco
    Reviews February 17, 2017
    Monica Westin

    With the Logic of Vegas, the Seduction of Art: Hadar Kleiman’s Cheap Desirability in San Francisco

    Where the Party Is: Mark Leckey’s Vernacular, Autobiographical Tour Through Pop
    Reviews February 14, 2017
    Sam Korman

    Where the Party Is: Mark Leckey’s Vernacular, Autobiographical Tour Through Pop

    Interrupting Business as Usual: A Close Reading of MoMA’s Muslim Ban Intervention
    Features February 13, 2017
    Ben Davis

    Interrupting Business as Usual: A Close Reading of MoMA’s Muslim Ban Intervention

    Drones, by Design: Mahwish Chishty and the Politics of Representation
    Reviews February 3, 2017
    Tausif Noor

    Drones, by Design: Mahwish Chishty and the Politics of Representation

    The Many Faces of Brian O’Doherty
    Features January 31, 2017
    Mitch Speed

    The Many Faces of Brian O’Doherty

    “Liberation and Consumption”: Surveying Korean Art in the ’90s
    Reviews January 26, 2017
    Alison Hugill

    “Liberation and Consumption”: Surveying Korean Art in the ’90s

    Jill Magid’s Post-Truth Diamond Proposal
    Features January 24, 2017
    Kimberlee Córdova

    Jill Magid’s Post-Truth Diamond Proposal

    Feeling Good, Feeling Bad: The Self-Help Vibrations of Patrick Howlett
    Reviews January 19, 2017
    Heather White

    Feeling Good, Feeling Bad: The Self-Help Vibrations of Patrick Howlett

    New Books: Gauguin and Proust Meet at the Border of Painting and Literature
    Features January 17, 2017
    Jonathon Sturgeon

    New Books: Gauguin and Proust Meet at the Border of Painting and Literature

    Performance Art in a Precarious Time: A Conversation with Johanna Householder and Francisco-Fernando Granados
    Features January 12, 2017
    Fabien Maltais-Bayda

    Performance Art in a Precarious Time: A Conversation with Johanna Householder and Francisco-Fernando Granados

    The Portent in Exhibiting Robert Mapplethorpe: What Can He Mean to Us Now?
    Reviews January 11, 2017
    Sky Goodden

    The Portent in Exhibiting Robert Mapplethorpe: What Can He Mean to Us Now?

    The Atmospheric Pressure in “Reading” Barbara Bloom
    Reviews January 6, 2017
    Mitch Speed

    The Atmospheric Pressure in “Reading” Barbara Bloom

    Her Sex and Her Medium Exploded: Coming to Terms with Pipilotti Rist
    Reviews January 4, 2017
    Jane Cavalier

    Her Sex and Her Medium Exploded: Coming to Terms with Pipilotti Rist

    The Material Undoings of Kelly Lycan
    Features, Reviews December 21, 2016
    Joni Low

    The Material Undoings of Kelly Lycan

    “If I Ventured in the Slipstream”: Tamara Henderson’s Nomadic Encampment at REDCAT
    Reviews December 19, 2016
    Andrew Berardini

    “If I Ventured in the Slipstream”: Tamara Henderson’s Nomadic Encampment at REDCAT

    Ways of Seeing John Berger, in Two Recent Documentaries
    Reviews December 13, 2016
    Mitch Speed

    Ways of Seeing John Berger, in Two Recent Documentaries

    Isa Genzken Plays with the Artworld’s Insides in “I Love Michael Asher”
    Reviews December 8, 2016
    Catherine G. Wagley

    Isa Genzken Plays with the Artworld’s Insides in “I Love Michael Asher”

    How to Hang a Picture
    Features December 6, 2016
    Andrew Berardini

    How to Hang a Picture

    Acting Out: The Visibility of Blackness in the Work of Martine Syms
    Reviews November 30, 2016
    Zoë Chan

    Acting Out: The Visibility of Blackness in the Work of Martine Syms

    What’s Become of the “Curator”?
    Features November 25, 2016
    Hettie Judah

    What’s Become of the “Curator”?

    Morbid Symptoms: In Search of the Post-Contemporary at the 2016 Montreal Biennial
    Features, Reviews November 22, 2016
    Saelan Twerdy

    Morbid Symptoms: In Search of the Post-Contemporary at the 2016 Montreal Biennial

    Weird Science: William Kentridge Deepens Time at Whitechapel
    Reviews November 17, 2016
    Tausif Noor

    Weird Science: William Kentridge Deepens Time at Whitechapel

    Romancing the Stone: Three Berlin Exhibitions Commune with the Ancients
    Reviews November 15, 2016
    Mitch Speed

    Romancing the Stone: Three Berlin Exhibitions Commune with the Ancients

    A Culture War is Coming
    Features November 10, 2016
    Christian Viveros-Fauné

    A Culture War is Coming

    A House Divided: Theaster Gates’s Confused Beat at the AGO
    Reviews November 4, 2016
    Ulysses Castellanos

    A House Divided: Theaster Gates’s Confused Beat at the AGO

    The 11th Gwangju Biennale’s Overreach: “What Does Art Do?”
    Reviews November 1, 2016
    Ben Eastham

    The 11th Gwangju Biennale’s Overreach: “What Does Art Do?”

    Toronto the Good, in Two Histories
    Reviews October 26, 2016
    Philip Monk

    Toronto the Good, in Two Histories

    How to FOMO: Missing Out On the Fear of Missing Out
    Features October 20, 2016
    Andrew Berardini

    How to FOMO: Missing Out On the Fear of Missing Out

    The Past Imperfect of Jutta Koether
    Reviews October 18, 2016
    Mitch Speed

    The Past Imperfect of Jutta Koether

    While the World Burns: The 32nd São Paulo Biennial’s Political Disregard
    Reviews October 13, 2016
    Juan José Santos

    While the World Burns: The 32nd São Paulo Biennial’s Political Disregard

    Stardust Tears: Sojourner Truth Parsons’s “Crying in California”
    Reviews October 10, 2016
    Andrew Berardini

    Stardust Tears: Sojourner Truth Parsons’s “Crying in California”

    The Instagrammable Angst of Anne Imhof
    Reviews October 5, 2016
    Alison Hugill

    The Instagrammable Angst of Anne Imhof

    The Ellipses of Eva Hesse: Reading Her Collected Diaries
    Features September 29, 2016
    Mitch Speed

    The Ellipses of Eva Hesse: Reading Her Collected Diaries

    Wifredo Lam: The Albissola Years
    Features September 22, 2016
    Eskil Lam

    Wifredo Lam: The Albissola Years

    Mark Ruwedel’s Desert History, as Fugitive Present
    Reviews September 15, 2016
    Sky Goodden

    Mark Ruwedel’s Desert History, as Fugitive Present

    Simone Leigh’s Powerful Meditation on Race and Healthcare Suffers, Ironically, from Lack of Access
    Reviews September 13, 2016
    Mitch Speed

    Simone Leigh’s Powerful Meditation on Race and Healthcare Suffers, Ironically, from Lack of Access

    “Embarrassment is a Challenge”: The Queasy Vulnerability of Maria Lassnig
    Features September 6, 2016
    Gilda Williams

    “Embarrassment is a Challenge”: The Queasy Vulnerability of Maria Lassnig

    Momus Best-Of: Vol. 2 2015-16
    Features August 25, 2016
    Sky Goodden

    Momus Best-Of: Vol. 2 2015-16

    Liz Magor Waits, But Not For You
    Reviews August 17, 2016
    E.C. Woodley

    Liz Magor Waits, But Not For You

    DIS Collective’s Apathetic and Ironic Berlin Biennial Underestimates its Audience
    Reviews August 16, 2016
    Alison Hugill

    DIS Collective’s Apathetic and Ironic Berlin Biennial Underestimates its Audience

    Dumb Material and Animate Belief: Sadie Benning Plays (with) God
    Reviews August 10, 2016
    Mitch Speed

    Dumb Material and Animate Belief: Sadie Benning Plays (with) God

    Interview: Paul Petro on Becoming the Legacy-Building, “Bent Identity Politics” Gallerist of Toronto
    Features August 9, 2016
    Sky Goodden

    Interview: Paul Petro on Becoming the Legacy-Building, “Bent Identity Politics” Gallerist of Toronto

    Who Was Edmund Alleyn? Rediscovering a Mercurial and Untimely Talent
    Features August 4, 2016
    Saelan Twerdy

    Who Was Edmund Alleyn? Rediscovering a Mercurial and Untimely Talent

    The Renewed Focus and Acrid Targeting of Rachel Harrison at MoMA and Greene Naftali
    Reviews August 3, 2016
    Mitch Speed

    The Renewed Focus and Acrid Targeting of Rachel Harrison at MoMA and Greene Naftali

    Manifesta 11: What Artists and Curators Do for Money
    Features, Reviews July 28, 2016
    Lauren Wetmore

    Manifesta 11: What Artists and Curators Do for Money

    Wresting the Work of Straub and Huillet from the Annals of Academia and Art History
    Reviews July 25, 2016
    Mitch Speed

    Wresting the Work of Straub and Huillet from the Annals of Academia and Art History

    “If You Are Black, You Really Are Coming from Behind”: Orders of Visibility in Kerry James Marshall’s “Mastry”
    Features July 20, 2016
    Raél Jero Salley

    “If You Are Black, You Really Are Coming from Behind”: Orders of Visibility in Kerry James Marshall’s “Mastry”

    From a Safe Distance: Guy Maddin Stills His Lens with Collage
    Reviews July 18, 2016
    Mark Mann

    From a Safe Distance: Guy Maddin Stills His Lens with Collage

    Georgia O'Keeffe

    Georgia O'Keeffe

    The Photograph is a Hinge: Taca Sui Traces a Cultural Slippage
    Reviews July 11, 2016
    Colin Edgington

    The Photograph is a Hinge: Taca Sui Traces a Cultural Slippage

    The Politics of Color in Kristine Moran
    Reviews July 5, 2016
    Sky Goodden

    The Politics of Color in Kristine Moran

    Emerging Artist Neil Beloufa Turns Smug at MoMA
    Reviews June 28, 2016
    Mitch Speed

    Emerging Artist Neil Beloufa Turns Smug at MoMA

    Understanding Lina Bo Bardi’s Unending Popularity (and Misuse)
    Features June 23, 2016
    Juan José Santos

    Understanding Lina Bo Bardi’s Unending Popularity (and Misuse)

    The Tug of the Earth and the Tug of the Sky: The Writhing Stillness of Agnes Martin
    Reviews June 15, 2016
    Andrew Berardini

    The Tug of the Earth and the Tug of the Sky: The Writhing Stillness of Agnes Martin

    Abigail DeVille Unburies Bodies at The Contemporary
    Reviews June 13, 2016
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    Features June 9, 2016
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    Reviews May 25, 2016
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    Reviews May 17, 2016
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    Reviews April 30, 2016
    Will Fenstermaker

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    Reviews April 26, 2016
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    Features April 20, 2016
    Robert MacFarlane

    Eeriness: Tracing an Unquiet Tradition in British Landscape Art

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    Features April 18, 2016
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    Features April 7, 2016
    Sky Goodden

    “You Can’t Win It”: Jon McCurley on the Art of Facebook

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    Features April 4, 2016
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    “I Wanted to Find a Way to Respond”: Artist Ben Quilty on Working with Refugees

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    Reviews March 30, 2016
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    Features March 29, 2016
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    Reviews March 20, 2016
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    Flickering Insight from the Whitechapel’s “Electronic Superhighway”

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    Features March 9, 2016
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    Hold Still: A History of Performing for the Camera from Nadar to the Selfie

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    Features March 4, 2016
    Mitch Speed

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    Sky Goodden

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    Features February 16, 2016
    Sky Goodden

    “I Think We’re Changing Into a Tribal Nation”: A Conversation with Dave Hickey on “25 Women”

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    Ben Davis

    The Hermetic Lyricism of Anri Sala

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    Alex Bowron

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    Features February 2, 2016
    Dick Averns

    “How to Lie About Canadian Art”: A Case Study in Art Criticism

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    Towards the Quiet, or with Larger Amplifiers: An Interview with Berlin Performance Artist Aleks Slota
    Features January 15, 2016
    RM Vaughan

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    Reviews January 5, 2016
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    Ben Davis

    The Most Important Art Essays of the Year

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    Features December 14, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    The Problem of Access: An Interview with Emerging First Nations Artist Joseph Tisiga

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    Catherine G. Wagley

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    Features November 26, 2015
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    “It‘s Like Deciding to Cut Off a Leg and Keep Walking”: Jessica Bradley On Her Controversial Closure

    The Lips of a Wound: Reflections on Doris Salcedo
    Reviews November 23, 2015
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    The Lips of a Wound: Reflections on Doris Salcedo

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    Reviews November 19, 2015
    Becca Rothfeld

    Nothing in These Works is Given Freely: The Phenomenological Approach of Frank Auerbach

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    Features November 17, 2015
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    A Prismatic Picture of Colombian Street Culture in Jorge Lozano’s Experimental Films

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    Features November 10, 2015
    Sky Goodden, Benjamin Genocchio, James McAnally, Sarrita Hunn

    The Future of Online Arts Publishing: A Roundtable with artnet News, Momus, and Temporary Art Review

    Cohering His Compulsions: Ken Nicol Advances at Olga Korper
    Reviews November 5, 2015
    Ben Portis

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    Features October 27, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    Public Art Has to Be Art First and Public Second: A Conversation with Stuart Reid on Union Station

    Helen Molesworth Upends the Permanent Hang at MOCA LA
    Reviews October 26, 2015
    Catherine G. Wagley

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    Catherine G. Wagley

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    Our Mutual Desire for Critical Change: Momus and Feature Art Fair
    Features October 21, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    Our Mutual Desire for Critical Change: Momus and Feature Art Fair

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    Features October 19, 2015
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    Alison Snowball

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    Features October 9, 2015
    Danny Olda

    Interview: Kalup Linzy In Between Acting and Performing

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    Features October 7, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    Robert Rauschenberg and Rachel Harrison Mirror Media and More Across Time

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    Reviews October 7, 2015
    Otino Corsano

    All That Is Solid …: Alex McLeod Taps the Cult of the Canadian Sublime and Explodes the Digital

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    Adam Barbu

    Slowing Down Perception: “are you experienced?” Tries to Affect the White Cube

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    Features September 29, 2015
    Chris Dercon

    What is the Museum of the Future?

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    Becca Rothfeld

    The Incurable Distance of Gustave Caillebotte

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    Features September 24, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    Interview: Lois Andison Talks Back to Male Modernists

    Contemporary Art Writing in Mexico: The Intractable and Necessary Issue of Corruption
    Features September 23, 2015
    Kimberlee Córdova

    Contemporary Art Writing in Mexico: The Intractable and Necessary Issue of Corruption

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    Features September 21, 2015
    Carol Strickland

    The First Modern Art Dealer and the Movement He Incited

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    Features September 16, 2015
    RM Vaughan

    A Spitting Fit of Teenage Rage: On the Increasing Impotence of Political Art

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    Reviews September 14, 2015
    Michael Vass

    The Subtle Evolution and Marked Aging of Michael Smith’s “Mike”

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    Features September 11, 2015
    Carol Strickland

    Shedding New Light on the Night: Obscurity and Clarity in the American Nocturne

    From This Deep and Powerful Sculpture Emerged This Mask: Reading Haegue Yang Through Victor Hugo
    Reviews September 8, 2015
    Gauthier Lesturgie

    From This Deep and Powerful Sculpture Emerged This Mask: Reading Haegue Yang Through Victor Hugo

    First Nations Art and the Matter of Its Politics
    Features September 8, 2015
    Clint Burnham

    First Nations Art and the Matter of Its Politics

    Successfully Mining Politics for Feeling: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev’s Istanbul Biennial
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    Amah-Rose Abrams

    Successfully Mining Politics for Feeling: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev’s Istanbul Biennial

    A.L. Steiner’s Personal Archive: Underground Heroes, Everyday Lovers, and Global Catastrophe
    Reviews August 21, 2015
    Andrew Berardini

    A.L. Steiner’s Personal Archive: Underground Heroes, Everyday Lovers, and Global Catastrophe

    The Outsider That Invites Us In: Jordan Maclachlan’s “Ways of Living”
    Reviews August 21, 2015
    Ulysses Castellanos

    The Outsider That Invites Us In: Jordan Maclachlan’s “Ways of Living”

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    Reviews August 19, 2015
    Lee Plested

    Grey Skies Over Melancholy Bay: Creative Antagonism and Cultural Preservation on the West Coast

    Nothing is Absolute: The Fairy-Winged Failure of “Absolute Beauty: Neoacademicism in Saint Petersburg”
    Reviews August 18, 2015
    RM Vaughan

    Nothing is Absolute: The Fairy-Winged Failure of “Absolute Beauty: Neoacademicism in Saint Petersburg”

    What Gets Revealed When Iris Häussler Finally Owns Her Name
    Reviews August 15, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    What Gets Revealed When Iris Häussler Finally Owns Her Name

    Bodies Beholden: The Changed Corporeality of David Salle’s New Paintings
    Reviews August 12, 2015
    Becca Rothfeld

    Bodies Beholden: The Changed Corporeality of David Salle’s New Paintings

    On the Subtle Joy of Agnes Martin
    Features August 6, 2015
    Karen Schiff

    On the Subtle Joy of Agnes Martin

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    Features August 4, 2015
    Natasha Chaykowski

    Are Sex Differences Getting in the Way?: The Limits of Gender-Based Curating

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    Features July 27, 2015
    RM Vaughan

    On Jurassic World’s Blockbusting Fear of Art

    On Kawara’s “I Am Still Alive” Twitter Presence: An Anomaly in Post-Internet Art
    Features July 24, 2015
    Earl Miller

    On Kawara’s “I Am Still Alive” Twitter Presence: An Anomaly in Post-Internet Art

    Mary Heilmann and David Reed’s “Two By Two” at the Hamburger Bahnhof Floats Towards Americana
    Reviews July 20, 2015
    Mitch Speed

    Mary Heilmann and David Reed’s “Two By Two” at the Hamburger Bahnhof Floats Towards Americana

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    Features July 15, 2015
    Andrew Berardini

    How To See a Sunset

    This Is Where It Ends: The Denouement of Post-Internet Art in Jon Rafman’s Deep Web
    Reviews July 9, 2015
    Saelan Twerdy

    This Is Where It Ends: The Denouement of Post-Internet Art in Jon Rafman’s Deep Web

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    Reviews July 8, 2015
    Rebecca Travis

    Simon Denny’s Trade Show Overkill at MoMA PS1

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    Features July 6, 2015
    RM Vaughan

    It’s Not Stealing If It’s Art: A Re-Primer on Image Appropriation for the Internet Generation

    Space is the Plane: Chris Curreri Explodes His Medium at the Gardiner Museum
    Reviews July 1, 2015
    Ulysses Castellanos

    Space is the Plane: Chris Curreri Explodes His Medium at the Gardiner Museum

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    Reviews June 29, 2015
    Dagmara Genda

    View from Here: On the Contingency of Sight in Wanda Koop

    The Exit Interview: Matthew Teitelbaum
    Features June 26, 2015
    Jennifer Matotek

    The Exit Interview: Matthew Teitelbaum

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    Features June 24, 2015
    Sheila Heti

    Sheila Heti Interviews John Currin on the Fun, Beautiful Things

    A Rebuttal, Not a Conversation: Discussing Ombaasin’s AGO Intervention, “Land Rights Now”
    Features June 23, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    A Rebuttal, Not a Conversation: Discussing Ombaasin’s AGO Intervention, “Land Rights Now”

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    Features June 15, 2015
    Orit Gat

    What Is an Art Critic Doing at an Art Fair?

    Interview: Rashaad Newsome on Voguing, Heraldry, and FKA Twigs
    Features June 10, 2015
    David Balzer

    Interview: Rashaad Newsome on Voguing, Heraldry, and FKA Twigs

    Paul P. on Two Works by Stephen Andrews
    Features June 9, 2015
    Paul P.

    Paul P. on Two Works by Stephen Andrews

    Wayne Baerwaldt on ACAD’s Dissolution of His Director/Curator Position: “It’s an Issue of Public Trust”
    Features June 8, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    Wayne Baerwaldt on ACAD’s Dissolution of His Director/Curator Position: “It’s an Issue of Public Trust”

    Ydessa Hendeles: Of Ourselves and of Our Subjects
    Reviews June 2, 2015
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    Ydessa Hendeles: Of Ourselves and of Our Subjects

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    Features June 1, 2015
    Sarah Cascone

    Can Art Museums Afford to Be Free?

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    Reviews May 27, 2015
    David Balzer

    Labor Lost: Okwui Enwezor’s Artworld Biennale

    Trenton Doyle Hancock Moves to Mythos at Sarasota’s Ringling Museum
    Reviews May 20, 2015
    Danny Olda

    Trenton Doyle Hancock Moves to Mythos at Sarasota’s Ringling Museum

    After Bjork Fiasco, MoMA’s Yoko Ono Show Makes a Case for Art and Celebrity
    Features May 13, 2015
    Ben Davis

    After Bjork Fiasco, MoMA’s Yoko Ono Show Makes a Case for Art and Celebrity

    To Cut and To Swipe: Understanding Hito Steyerl Through “HOW NOT TO BE SEEN”
    Features May 12, 2015
    Kaegan Sparks

    To Cut and To Swipe: Understanding Hito Steyerl Through “HOW NOT TO BE SEEN”

    The Troubling Thrill of Invernomuto’s Counter-Ritual
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    Clint Burnham

    The Troubling Thrill of Invernomuto’s Counter-Ritual

    The Suffering Body of 1993: Whatever Happened to the “Abject”
    Features April 27, 2015
    Joseph Henry

    The Suffering Body of 1993: Whatever Happened to the “Abject”

    Parsing Re-Performance and Institutional Critique in the Choreography of Sasha Kleinplatz
    Features April 27, 2015
    Fabien Maltais-Bayda

    Parsing Re-Performance and Institutional Critique in the Choreography of Sasha Kleinplatz

    Valérie Blass Is Both Accessible and Locked-Up in “My Life”
    Reviews April 19, 2015
    Wojciech Olejnik

    Valérie Blass Is Both Accessible and Locked-Up in “My Life”

    In “Martin Wong: Painting is Forbidden,” the Wattis Institute Largely Sidesteps Painting
    Reviews April 17, 2015
    Ben Davis

    In “Martin Wong: Painting is Forbidden,” the Wattis Institute Largely Sidesteps Painting

    Interview: Stephen Bulger Reflects on Twenty Years of Missteps, Success, and Advancing Form in Photography
    Features April 16, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    Interview: Stephen Bulger Reflects on Twenty Years of Missteps, Success, and Advancing Form in Photography

    Hito Steyerl’s Nexus of Money, Violence, and Art
    Reviews April 12, 2015
    Paddy Johnson

    Hito Steyerl’s Nexus of Money, Violence, and Art

    Interview: Curator Christopher Eamon Troubles the Shifting Form (and Relevance) of Photography
    Features April 9, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    Interview: Curator Christopher Eamon Troubles the Shifting Form (and Relevance) of Photography

    Seeing Red: Understanding Kazuo Shiraga’s Sudden Fame
    Features April 8, 2015
    Carol Strickland

    Seeing Red: Understanding Kazuo Shiraga’s Sudden Fame

    The Alchemist: A Studio Visit with Sadie Weis
    Features April 7, 2015
    RM Vaughan

    The Alchemist: A Studio Visit with Sadie Weis

    Tools for Redress: A Century of Political Art Between “Zero Tolerance” and “The Left Front”
    Features April 1, 2015
    Will Fenstermaker

    Tools for Redress: A Century of Political Art Between “Zero Tolerance” and “The Left Front”

    Girls Gone Viral: Anicka Yi’s Pathological Feminism
    Reviews March 24, 2015
    Chloe Wyma

    Girls Gone Viral: Anicka Yi’s Pathological Feminism

    Aiming to Please: Division Gallery Surveys Post-Internet Entertainment
    Reviews March 17, 2015
    Saelan Twerdy

    Aiming to Please: Division Gallery Surveys Post-Internet Entertainment

    Interview: Venice Biennale Curator Okwui Enwezor On “All the World’s Futures” and the Angel of History
    Features March 12, 2015
    Coline Milliard

    Interview: Venice Biennale Curator Okwui Enwezor On “All the World’s Futures” and the Angel of History

    “What Instruments Have We?”: A Conversation with Emily Roysdon
    Features March 10, 2015
    Joseph Henry

    “What Instruments Have We?”: A Conversation with Emily Roysdon

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    Reviews March 5, 2015
    Ben Davis

    MoMA “Steps on a Nail” with Bad Björk Show

    The Deadening Gaze of Tal R
    Reviews March 3, 2015
    Mitch Speed

    The Deadening Gaze of Tal R

    Janet Werner’s Truer Subject, the Women Unseen
    Reviews February 25, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    Janet Werner’s Truer Subject, the Women Unseen

    The Contemporary Erotics of Laurie Kang
    Reviews February 24, 2015
    Alex Bowron

    The Contemporary Erotics of Laurie Kang

    Lee Mingwei and His Relations: The Legacy and Deviation of Relational Aesthetics in the East
    Features, Reviews February 18, 2015
    Matthew Carver

    Lee Mingwei and His Relations: The Legacy and Deviation of Relational Aesthetics in the East

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    Reviews February 16, 2015
    Saelan Twerdy

    Bad Dream of the Bauhaus: Juan Ortiz-Apuy’s IKEA Fantasia

    Luc Tuymans Dares Painting to Lose
    Reviews February 9, 2015
    Clint Burnham

    Luc Tuymans Dares Painting to Lose

    What On Kawara’s Analog Wisdom at the Guggenheim Has to Offer a Digital World
    Reviews February 7, 2015
    Ben Davis

    What On Kawara’s Analog Wisdom at the Guggenheim Has to Offer a Digital World

    Ryan McNamara and the Afterlife of Performance
    Features, Reviews February 4, 2015
    Joseph Henry

    Ryan McNamara and the Afterlife of Performance

    Villa Toronto’s Failure and Provocation: How Do We Invite the Outside In?
    Features, Reviews January 22, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    Villa Toronto’s Failure and Provocation: How Do We Invite the Outside In?

    Neïl Beloufa Relies on Other People
    Reviews January 19, 2015
    Kristy Trinier

    Neïl Beloufa Relies on Other People

    Interview: Pedro Reyes Reclaims the Politics in Art
    Features January 14, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    Interview: Pedro Reyes Reclaims the Politics in Art

    Why I Believe New York’s Art Scene Is Doomed
    Features January 12, 2015
    Ben Davis

    Why I Believe New York’s Art Scene Is Doomed

    In Praise of Good Art Writing
    Features January 6, 2015
    Andrew Berardini

    In Praise of Good Art Writing

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    Features January 5, 2015
    David Balzer

    Alien vs. Predator: The Critic in Three Recent Films

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    Saelan Twerdy

    Year in Review: Montreal From the Ground Up

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    Reviews December 29, 2014
    Saelan Twerdy

    Playing the Double Agent: Kathleen Ritter’s “Camoufleurs”

    Translation & Transcription: A Conversation with Shelagh Keeley
    Features December 23, 2014
    Ben Portis

    Translation & Transcription: A Conversation with Shelagh Keeley

    Identity After the Internet: Three Berlin Exhibitions in Search of Commonality
    Features, Reviews December 22, 2014
    Aaron Bogart

    Identity After the Internet: Three Berlin Exhibitions in Search of Commonality

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    Reviews December 15, 2014
    Christian Viveros-Fauné

    Douglas Gordon at the Armory Is All Flash and No Follow-Through

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    Features December 11, 2014
    Earl Miller

    A Rebuke to the Perceived “Crisis in Criticism”: Social Media and the Liberated Reader

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    Reviews December 10, 2014
    Sky Goodden

    A Ghostly Form: Scrap Metal Embraces Presence, Absence, and the Space Between

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    Reviews December 8, 2014
    Mark Mann

    Brooklyn Is Everything: Artworlds Apart in a Gentrified Borough

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    Features December 3, 2014
    JJ Charlesworth

    Turner Prize: Confused Critics Demand Relevance

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    Features December 1, 2014
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    How to Survive International Art: Notes from the Poverty Jetset

    The Future of Art Toronto, and How It Plans to Adapt
    Features November 24, 2014
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    The Future of Art Toronto, and How It Plans to Adapt

    The Problematized Fun of Cosima von Bonin
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    Clint Burnham

    The Problematized Fun of Cosima von Bonin

    “He Did Not Ring My Head Like a Bell”: Reviewing Geoffrey Farmer
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    Andrew Berardini

    “He Did Not Ring My Head Like a Bell”: Reviewing Geoffrey Farmer

    Kill the Expert: An Interview with Brian Droitcour
    Features November 17, 2014
    Joseph Henry

    Kill the Expert: An Interview with Brian Droitcour

    Independent Projects Extends on the “Curated Fair,” with Mixed Results
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    Maya Harakawa

    Independent Projects Extends on the “Curated Fair,” with Mixed Results

    Future Forecast: The Montreal Biennale 2014
    Reviews November 10, 2014
    Saelan Twerdy

    Future Forecast: The Montreal Biennale 2014

    The Dreamscapes of Vienna’s Sprawling “Century of the Bed” Series
    Reviews November 10, 2014
    Clint Burnham

    The Dreamscapes of Vienna’s Sprawling “Century of the Bed” Series

    Karen Kraven Nets Meaning in the Threads
    Reviews November 7, 2014
    Benjamin Bruneau

    Karen Kraven Nets Meaning in the Threads

    A Theory of Everything: On The State of Theory and Criticism (Part Two)
    Features November 3, 2014
    Saelan Twerdy

    A Theory of Everything: On The State of Theory and Criticism (Part Two)

    A Theory of Everything: On the State of Theory and Criticism (Part One)
    Features October 30, 2014
    Saelan Twerdy

    A Theory of Everything: On the State of Theory and Criticism (Part One)

    The Commons of Aggregation: The Case for Net Art as Public Art
    Features October 27, 2014
    Joseph Henry

    The Commons of Aggregation: The Case for Net Art as Public Art

    Feature Art Fair’s Focus on the Art, and the Currents That Emerged
    Features October 27, 2014
    Sky Goodden

    Feature Art Fair’s Focus on the Art, and the Currents That Emerged

    Machinations: Stan Douglas Makes His Theatrical Debut
    Reviews October 22, 2014
    David Balzer

    Machinations: Stan Douglas Makes His Theatrical Debut

    Working with the Material at Hand: A Roundtable on Regionalism
    Features October 16, 2014
    Sky Goodden

    Working with the Material at Hand: A Roundtable on Regionalism

    Nice Things: The Pleasure Principle in Jeff Koons and Cory Arcangel
    Features October 15, 2014
    Joseph Henry

    Nice Things: The Pleasure Principle in Jeff Koons and Cory Arcangel

    The Militant Image
    Reviews October 15, 2014
    Clint Burnham

    The Militant Image

    Fossils
    Features October 15, 2014
    Colin Perry

    Fossils

    Pierre Huyghe’s Airless Fantasy at Hauser & Wirth
    Reviews October 15, 2014
    Colin Perry

    Pierre Huyghe’s Airless Fantasy at Hauser & Wirth

    How to Write About Contemporary Art
    Features October 15, 2014
    Andrew Berardini

    How to Write About Contemporary Art

    An Italian Futurist Out of Step with the Rest: Salvatore Scarpitta
    Reviews October 15, 2014
    Caoimhe Morgan-Feir

    An Italian Futurist Out of Step with the Rest: Salvatore Scarpitta

    The Miserable Quips of Brad Phillips
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    Mark Mann

    The Miserable Quips of Brad Phillips

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    Sky Goodden

    Frank Mädler’s Fleeting Capture

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