Ritual Maintenance: Edges and Encounters with Tina Girouard
Maintenance I: Role Change, 1970 I give myself a haircut using the video system as a mirror. It is completely private, no one in…
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More than Not: LACMA’s “Not I” and the Necessity of History
Not I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE–2020 CE), a recent exhibition at LACMA, was in thrall to its ideas. Though ventriloquism was its central theme,…
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Artists in Isolation: Day’s End
“I had no faith in any kind of permission.” So he cut off the lock and replaced it with his own, then went to…
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“Pacific Standard Time” Writes Overlooked Chicano Artists Back Into Art History
On a Monday morning in May 2015, artist David Avalos stood on the stage of a packed auditorium at the Getty Center in Los…
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