A Note on Omission: Navigating Institutional Censorship and the Need for Repair
When I used the term “Muslim body” in my curatorial note* for an exhibition in New Delhi last year, I did not anticipate the…
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Tracking the Sapphic Social Imaginaries: Lesbian Art in Print
Often scraping by on shoestring budgets and volunteer labor, periodicals by, for, and about lesbians—lesbian being a capacious term that increasingly embraces queer, trans,…
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Nick Mauss’s Continental Divide
Nick Mauss is a fan of verre eglomisé, or “distressed hand-gilded mirror,” a phrase that sounds very European, and very gay. The artist takes…
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“Speaking from a Wound”: Jesse Darling on Faith, Crisis, and Refusal
Over the past year, I’ve had considerable difficulty maintaining my faith in art. In the short version of this introduction to an interview, I…
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DIS Collective’s Apathetic and Ironic Berlin Biennial Underestimates its Audience
This year’s Berlin Biennale title, The Present in Drag, spells out clearly what we can expect. The aim of the show is to reflect…
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