Reviewing the Reviews: The 2024 Whitney Biennial
As the longest-running institutional survey of contemporary American art, the Whitney Biennial never fails to create “discourse.” Each iteration makes a claim about the…
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Working It
In an interview about her 2003 performance Untitled, in which she had sex with an art collector on camera for a sum initially reported…
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The Final Fart: A Meditation on Hannah Wilke’s Last Work
Hannah Wilke knew what a death mask was. She knew that a death mask is an event, not an object. She knew that the…
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See You on the Other Side: Matthew Wong’s Vistas of the Mind
In Matthew Wong’s oil painting See You On the Other Side (2019), a figure in blue stands at the edge of a frozen landscape…
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Episode 14: “What Makes Great Art?” with Jarrett Earnest
For this month’s episode, towards our season’s question, “what makes great art?”, Sky Goodden spoke with artist, curator, and writer Jarrett Earnest. Earnest…
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“I Think We’re Changing Into a Tribal Nation”: A Conversation with Dave Hickey on “25 Women”
When you have as many critics as Dave Hickey, you don’t hope to publish a book quietly so much as attract the right kind…
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The Future of Online Arts Publishing: A Roundtable with artnet News, Momus, and Temporary Art Review
Everything about publishing is changing, including art criticism and news. What sort of art coverage we consume, how we consume it, and on what…
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Luc Tuymans Dares Painting to Lose
Luc Tuymans does not shy away from controversy. For his new exhibition at David Zwirner in London, for example, one of his paintings is…
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Kill the Expert: An Interview with Brian Droitcour
The word “post-internet” is a useful, if maybe not quite necessary, evil. First attributed to the writing of artist Marisa Olson, the term has…
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