Criticism Project Altered Twice: A Dual Response to Xavier Le Roy’s Retrospective
I wanted to make “the fourth wall” no longer a mirror, but a membrane that makes the spectator aware of this coming and going…
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A Ghostly Form: Scrap Metal Embraces Presence, Absence, and the Space Between
Emerging curator Rui Amaral is troubling the third rail of contemporary art. He’s been fingering the margins of what’s visible, the all-important link to…
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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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Russian Collective Chto Delat Heads Straight at the Violence of the Contemporary
Chto Delat is a Russian collective of artists; founded in 2003, they are one of the most respected political art groups working today. Their…
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Turner Prize: Confused Critics Demand Relevance
I won’t blow my own trumpet too much, since it was fairly obvious that Duncan Campbell was going to win this year’s Turner Prize…
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Time, Travel, and Trial in the Work of Jason de Haan
Sitting down to read an epic novel is to relive an epoch, embark on a long journey – it’s not enough to sit back and…
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How to Survive International Art: Notes from the Poverty Jetset
You are a writer, a curator, an installation artist, a social practitioner, a fly-by-night art advisor, an art-fair fixture, an inveterate biennialist. You live…
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Looking At Us Looking At You: Looking Down on Isa Genzken
Isa Genzken is one of the most respected German artists working today, whose brittle sculptures and shiny, glittery collages document a world of trash…
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The Future of Art Toronto, and How It Plans to Adapt
A dramatic narrative emerged in Toronto’s artworld, this fall, regarding the perceived challenge presented to Canada’s best-established international art fair, Art Toronto, by the…
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The Problematized Fun of Cosima von Bonin
Cosima von Bonin is an artist who won’t let go. Her new exhibition at Vienna’s MUMOK is an explosion of stuffed animals and chicks…
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