The Faces That You Meet: Huma Bhabha’s Close Encounters
The works of Huma Bhabha affect a strange pareidolia: they lure, and then repel, dissipating the familiarity they promise. The Karachi-born artist mines the…
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From a Cabin in the Woods: Dieter Roelstraete’s “HUTOPIA” and the Shelters of Thought
I harbor fantasies of retreating for stretches of time to a simple cabin in the countryside. My place, spare but tasteful, would feature a…
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“Where Does Art Get To Live?”: A Conversation Between Anique Jordan and Michèle Pearson Clarke
On a perfect spring day in late May, I found myself huddled in a crowded gallery for an artist talk, my head leaning forward,…
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Episode 10: “What Makes Great Art?” with Dushko Petrovich
In our 10th episode, we continue our season-long exploration of the question, “What makes great art,” speaking to essential voices of our time…
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Grafting the Baroque: The Scaled-Up Frames of David Armstrong Six
“Everything is composed of small particles of itself and they are flying around in concentric circles and arcs and segments and innumerable other geometrical…
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“This Reductive Brave New World”: Andrea Dworkin’s Painful Relevance
When I was an undergraduate in the early 2000s, Andrea Dworkin’s “anti-sex” writing was anathema to the prevailing discourse of feminism. The cultural moment…
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One Hundred Years of Ambivalence: The Many Legacies of the Bauhaus
It’s been a hundred years of bent chrome furniture, and Germany is taking stock. On the centennial of the Bauhaus art school, new permanent…
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Invisible Labor and Black Burnout
One might think that the recent swell of interest in black art would have eased some of the burdens faced by those who have…
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The Erotics of Liberty: Dorothy Iannone’s Cultivated Bohemia
Whatever else they do in this world or the next, gods take up space. Consider Dorothy Iannone’s recent exhibition Lady Liberty Meets Her Match…
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Looking Out from Looking In: Geneviève Cadieux Shifts From the Polemic to the Poetic
Milling through the Vancouver Art Gallery earlier this spring, I stopped before a towering diptych that paired a cartoon prince and a back-turned nude….
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