Back to the Future: The Social-Activist Architecture of Moshe Safdie
A recent exhibition at the National Academy Museum in New York raised the question Moshe Safdie (born 1938) has wrestled with his whole career. Is…
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“It‘s Like Deciding to Cut Off a Leg and Keep Walking”: Jessica Bradley On Her Controversial Closure
I first sat down with Jessica Bradley in late July, hoping to discuss her recently shuttered gallery. I was, at that time, wanting what…
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The Spinning “YOLO” Sympathies of Sandra Meigs
An early critique I received as an artist was in jury feedback for an unsuccessful grant application: “why does this work need to be…
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It’s Not Stealing If It’s Art: A Re-Primer on Image Appropriation for the Internet Generation
… every text is from the outset under the jurisdiction of other discourses which impose a universe on it… [text operate] within the totality…
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The Anxiety of Influence: Jack Bush at the National Gallery
“I feel sorry for Jack Bush,” said an artist acquaintance of mine when I told him about the National Gallery of Canada’s recent, excellent…
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