After Bjork Fiasco, MoMA’s Yoko Ono Show Makes a Case for Art and Celebrity
Yoko Ono: One-Woman Show, 1960-1971 arrives at the Museum of Modern Art pre-freighted with issues of art and celebrity that have dogged the institution of…
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To Cut and To Swipe: Understanding Hito Steyerl Through “HOW NOT TO BE SEEN”
The complex work of contemporary artist, media theorist, and filmmaker Hito Steyerl often pivots on a surprisingly simple tactic – wordplay. Consistently, across both…
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Taking On “The Gaze,” and Doing Away With it, Too: Warsaw’s Elsner and Rogalski
Whenever I am asked to fill out a form that requires a description of my eye color, I have to get up, find a…
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“Feast”: Xiao Guo Hui’s Divine Tragedy
There are few films that could be said to have led to their director’s deaths; Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò, or The 120 Days of…
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The Whitney’s Triumphant New Museum is Worrying For Art
Today, the new Whitney Museum of American Art opens its broad gates to the masses. If New York’s museum competition were a horserace, Renzo Piano’s appealing and thoughtful…
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The Troubling Thrill of Invernomuto’s Counter-Ritual
Invernomuto is an Italian duo who bring an uneasy postcolonial funk to contemporary art, somehow managing to capture the over-the-top brio of, say, dub…
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The Suffering Body of 1993: Whatever Happened to the “Abject”
The best way to fuck something up is to give it a body. A voice is killed when it is given a body. Whenever…
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Parsing Re-Performance and Institutional Critique in the Choreography of Sasha Kleinplatz
what about doing the same piece for the rest of your life in different iterations? Chorus II as a work for children? as solo?…
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In “Martin Wong: Painting is Forbidden,” the Wattis Institute Largely Sidesteps Painting
“Basically everything I paint is in my immediate neighborhood, where I ended up,” Martin Wong said in a lecture in 1991. “So, people assume…
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Interview: Stephen Bulger Reflects on Twenty Years of Missteps, Success, and Advancing Form in Photography
Photography gallerist Stephen Bulger (b. 1964) is celebrating a significant anniversary after steadily and concertedly contributing to the international market’s appreciation of photography’s position in…
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