Naming “Where is Here”: Ed Zelenak at Christopher Cutts
One of the pleasures of Ed Zelenak’s decades-long practice is its resistance to easy narrative. And yet, as John Bentley Mays wrote in 2015,…
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America Meredith, Lori Blondeau, and Raven Chacon Remember James Luna (1950-2018)
March 9, 2018 America Meredith Shockwaves shot through the Native artworld with the sad news that James Luna (Pooyukitchchum-Ipai-Mexican-American) had walked on. He…
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“More Than Those Who Despised Her”: Unforgetting on the Prairies
How can – how should – the ghosts of our brutalized bodies be ushered into public space? This was the enigma posed by Gregory…
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The Hopeful Phantasmagoria of “The Museum Took a Few Minutes to Collect Itself”
For the 1970 exhibition Raid the Icebox at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Andy Warhol pulled hidden treasures from storage. He included…
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No Measure of Health: Ilona Sagar Scans the Politics of Wellbeing
The word “health” is contaminated with sickness. It contains within it a negation: of disease, or illness. Routinely, we only begin to understand our…
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Faulty Infrastructure: New Orleans’s Triennial Can’t Commit
Nine years after the inaugural Prospect show of 2008, what can the exhibition that christened itself the United States’s only international biennial offer in…
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Maria Hupfield Returns to the Beginning
Maria Hupfield is a Brooklyn-based artist from Wasauksing First Nation, an Anishinabek community on Parry Island, five hours north of Toronto along Georgian Bay….
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Dubious Icons: Godheads, Messiahs, and the Artist as Celebrity
Perhaps it’s an unfair caricature of MFA students, that each appears to inhabit their own personalized reality TV show. Perhaps. But having been one…
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“Afrogallonism” Takes Dubai: South-South Solidarity and the Urge to Exoticize
Yellow’s a strange cornstarch slurry of a word, one that quickly gets thick on the tongue and loses all meaning. Its symbolism oscillates wildly,…
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The Listening Gaze: Raymond Gervais (1946-2018)
People ask me from time to time where I got my interest in music, in musical objects and records, and why I refer to…
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