Place, Space, or Backdrop: The Dilemma of Desert X, the “Coachella Biennial”
Against this summer’s alignment of Documenta 14, the Venice Biennale, and Skulptur Projekte Münster, the first edition of the Desert X biennial seemed to…
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The State of the Artworld, Explained
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan is opening its new contemporary art initiative, taking over the old Whitney Museum of American Art’s building…
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“I Think We’re Changing Into a Tribal Nation”: A Conversation with Dave Hickey on “25 Women”
When you have as many critics as Dave Hickey, you don’t hope to publish a book quietly so much as attract the right kind…
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The Lips of a Wound: Reflections on Doris Salcedo
Suture: A joining of the lips or edges of a wound or the like by stitching. The unexpectedly sensuous definition of the clinical term “stitching”…
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Interview: Kalup Linzy In Between Acting and Performing
Commenting on a creative relationship that was at the beginning of its end, a 2011 New York Times article quoted Hyperallergic editor-in-chief Hrag Vartanian…
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Beware the “Creative Economy”
One-thousand six-hundred fifty-four. I’m not teaching this semester, but if I were, that is the one number that I would want everyone to remember….
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Are Sex Differences Getting in the Way?: The Limits of Gender-Based Curating
Dear Dick, I’m wondering why every act that narrated female lived experience in the ‘70s has been read only as “collaboration” and “feminist.” The…
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Can Art Museums Afford to Be Free?
Are art museums better off offering free admission? As the art market surges, and museum attendance rises, the question of what kind of ticket…
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