“A Multiculti Blitzkrieg”: On the Ascendance of the Curator of Color
Yoshio Taniguchi’s 2004 expansion of the Museum of Modern Art integrated the glass buildings on either side of the museum so that when you…
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We’re Alive, Pablo Is Dead
Pablo Picasso is so famous and so ubiquitous and so dead that he is easy not to think about at all. It’s as though…
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Waiting to Return to the Places We Were Going: Mapping Robin Cameron’s “Memory Palace”
Robin Cameron’s exhibition Memory Palace at Franz Kaka sits on the second floor. The stairs to the second floor are just inside the glass…
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White Space, Black Spectacle at MASS MoCA
On May 28, 2017, MASS MoCA inaugurated its new Building 6, doubling its existing gallery space and turning the 16-acre complex of abandoned, 19th-century…
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The Abject Intimacies of Chris Curreri
I would like to be like water or rather like milk – completely pourable am right now more like stone but like sand or…
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The Portent in Exhibiting Robert Mapplethorpe: What Can He Mean to Us Now?
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts can’t send me Robert Mapplethorpe’s most explicit and notorious photographs, despite exhibiting them. It doesn’t have the copyright…
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In Search of Himself: Sky Glabush’s Mimetic Practice Drifts Into the Neo-Modernist Trend
“Artists don’t own the meaning of their work.” New York Times critic Roberta Smith issued this controversial and affecting line to a full auditorium…
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Are Sex Differences Getting in the Way?: The Limits of Gender-Based Curating
Dear Dick, I’m wondering why every act that narrated female lived experience in the ‘70s has been read only as “collaboration” and “feminist.” The…
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