Call from Inside the House: Christina Forrer at Parker Gallery
The feeling arrived as a sense of wanting to get away. Then I thought I was too hot, my frequent complaint, never voiced, that…
Read MoreMomus
Learning to Move Differently: Nadia Myre at the National Gallery of Canada
As I crossed the threshold into the dimly lit opening gallery that introduced Nadia Myre’s exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada, I was…
Read More
Fellow Members of an Unfolding Constellation: Leilah Babirye at the de Young
Leilah Babirye’s first solo museum show, We Have a History, at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, is comprised of twelve large-scale sculptures…
Read More
Extraordinary Living Begins Here: Artists Negotiate Large-Scale Infrastructure
Last year, from my parents’ windows in Penang, Malaysia, a dark arm of sand appeared on the surface of the water. It was small…
Read More
Risking Fear: Hamad Butt at Whitechapel Gallery
In a large room, yellow glass bulbs were suspended from the ceiling, arranged like pendulums in a Newton’s cradle, lingering precariously about a foot…
Read More
The Technologies of Art and War: Lucy Raven at Vancouver Art Gallery
Recently, I’ve been enjoying art that disappears. Art that combusts, implodes, melts, burns; that’s what I’m after. Google Gustav Metzger’s singed, barely-there canvases, for…
Read More
What a Book Can Do: On Editing Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason’s Monographs
For the past weeks, I’ve kept a new monograph on the artist Emily Mason on my glass coffee table, observing the sea of its…
Read More
Myth and Reality Converge: Qiu Anxiong and Howie Tsui at Richmond Art Gallery
Entering The Roaming Peach Blossom Spring, Qiu Anxiong and Howie Tsui’s two-person exhibition at the Richmond Art Gallery, British Columbia, felt like stepping into…
Read More
The All-Seeing Eyes of Carol Rama
During the reign of Benito Mussolini, an enormous carved relief of the dictator’s head loomed over the streets of Rome, his downcast gaze surveilling…
Read More
“Staying with the Trouble” at the Helsinki Biennial: Challenges of Environmental Curating
In the Helsinki archipelago, as the days stretched toward the midsummer sun, birds were my consistent companions. Gulls circled overhead as I rode the…
Read More