The Five Disappearances of Tammi Campbell
One The first threatens all artists, and everyone else too: simple disregard. The viewer makes a rolling stop at each frame, not accelerating past,…
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From a Safe Distance: Guy Maddin Stills His Lens with Collage
Guy Maddin’s latest exhibition finds the artist in a splendid mood, if preoccupied by the subtle, inescapable persistence of his loneliness. Maddin and his…
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The Depressing Power of Art in Raphaëlle de Groot’s “Summit Meetings”
Between 2009 and 2012, Raphaëlle de Groot invited people to give her objects that they no longer wanted but couldn’t get rid of. As…
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The Temptation of Everything in Michael Dudeck’s “Messiah Complex 5.0”
When a contemporary performance artist adopts religion in general as the theme of a work, a few things are likely to occur: the work…
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Brooklyn Is Everything: Artworlds Apart in a Gentrified Borough
The story of gentrification is both too complicated and too simple to be told well. There’s no proper shape for it, nothing to support…
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The Miserable Quips of Brad Phillips
Love makes love, hate makes hate, and disdain has a strange way of eliciting both. Brad Phillips’s show I Didn’t Retire, I Surrendered, a…
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