Joseph Henry Archives

Features, Reviews• August 1, 2019

Love and Loneliness: Queering Modernisms in Figurative Painting

By Joseph Henry

I work on 22nd Street in the Chelsea gallery district of Manhattan, so it was easy to notice the painting. Louis Fratino’s I keep…

Reviews• June 14, 2017

“All Awareness Becomes Base”: Jens Hoffmann’s Reduction of The Arcades Project

By Joseph Henry

“What, then, is the aura? A strange tissue of space and time: the unique apparition of a distance, however near it may be. To…

Features• August 24, 2015

Momus “Best Of”: Vol. 1

By Sky Goodden

It’s been a good ten months. Since October 2014, Momus has quickly become a trusted reference for those wishing to reflect on contemporary art at…

Features• April 27, 2015

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

By Joseph Henry

The best way to fuck something up is to give it a body. A voice is killed when it is given a body. Whenever…

Features• March 10, 2015

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

By Joseph Henry

“1. I believe in an alchemy of time. That a certain combination of words, a length of inaction, a discomposed room, or with some…

Features, Reviews• February 4, 2015

Ryan McNamara and the Afterlife of Performance

By Joseph Henry

How does performance art survive? What artifacts, narratives, or documents testify to performance’s occurrence? For the genre’s venerable practitioners from its historic moment of…

Reviews• January 8, 2015

Querying the New Appropriation Art: Is This Cynicism?

By Joseph Henry

The Denny Gallery may have given themselves a curatorial headache with the title of their current exhibition, Share This! Appropriation After Cynicism. There are…