When Feminisms and Futurisms Collide: Judy Chicago and Puppies Puppies at New Museum
What does an art practice that contends with feminism look like? In what ways can such a practice foreclose a confrontation with the complexities…
Read MoreNew Museum
“A Multiculti Blitzkrieg”: On the Ascendance of the Curator of Color
Yoshio Taniguchi’s 2004 expansion of the Museum of Modern Art integrated the glass buildings on either side of the museum so that when you…
Read More
An Alien Echo at the Gwangju Biennale
I arrived at the 14th Gwangju Biennale intrigued but skeptical about its goals. This year’s title is Soft and Weak Like Water, an aphorism…
Read More
Proving the Rule: The “Exceptionalism” Problem with Art-World Labor
It’s a rainy winter day in New York amid the ongoing apocalypse and I am struggling to think about museums. I do not, any…
Read More
On Whiteness
In 2017, I started working with Claudia Rankine and a collective called the Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII). For their inaugural project they were curating…
Read More
Season 5, Episode 3: Dana Kopel
In this episode Lauren Wetmore speaks with writer and organizer Dana Kopel about her widely-read article “Against Artspolitation: Unionizing the New Museum,” published in…
Read More
A Love Letter in Louisville: Breonna Taylor at the Speed Museum
“It’s like fucking vaporware.” I was on the phone with Kristina, Burnaway’s editor at large in New Orleans. We had been searching for days…
Read More
We Are Gathered Here to Grieve: Salvaging, Mourning, and ‘Cargo Cult Formalism’ in New York
As New York galleries reopened after the first wave of lockdowns, I noticed a trend across a handful of exhibitions that channeled the alienation…
Read More
The Untenability of the Unethical Museum
The last time I visited a museum was in early March, when I saw artist Tishan Hsu’s survey at Hammer Museum in Los Angeles….
Read More
“A Planetary Expenditure”: Ensayos on Learning Across a Distance
The work of Ensayos – a strategically covert group of artists, poets, historians, biologists, lawyers, sociologists, ecologists, activists, policymakers, and local community members, around…
Read More