Go on Without Me: Summer Kim Lee and TJ Shin on Absenteeism, Endlessness, and Recursion
In my book, Spoiled, I engage with a group of contemporary Asian American artists who expose and unravel the expectation that their work should…
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Love Letter Incinerators: Martin Wong’s Prison Paintings
“We know how much of sexuality there is in all cruelties, tortures, beatings.” —Frantz Fanon “Abolition requires we change one thing: everything.” —Ruth Wilson Gilmore I…
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Peter Hujar’s Still Life in Motion
There is a photograph installed near the end of Peter Hujar: Rialto at New York’s Ukrainian Museum that still holds my attention. It is…
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A Clinic the Size of the World
And, like the world, a lunatic asylum is a mosaic of the passions. —An asylum doctor in the Sarthe, 1837 Upon discovering an illness,…
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Finding One Another in Misrecognition: Summer Kim Lee Meets Catalina Ouyang
While I had followed their work for some time, I did not meet Catalina Ouyang until last fall, at a symposium at Stanford University…
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Grafting the Baroque: The Scaled-Up Frames of David Armstrong Six
“Everything is composed of small particles of itself and they are flying around in concentric circles and arcs and segments and innumerable other geometrical…
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Abjection Without Splendor: Günter Brus and Transgression’s Diminishing Returns
It must also be said that the painter is not hysterical, in the sense of a negation in negative theology. Abjection becomes splendor, the…
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That’s the Way to Do It!: The Fairy Tale Life of Ydessa Hendeles
Let’s start with the premise that Ydessa Hendeles is an artist. And why shouldn’t we? Is it the fact that she started as a…
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