Through the Looking Glass: Distortion and the Fantasy of a Feminist Nude
Rarely do I find a work of art as disturbing as Louise Bonnet’s innocuously titled painting Figure Holding an Orange (2023). This thirty-square-foot oil-on-linen…
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We’re Alive, Pablo Is Dead
Pablo Picasso is so famous and so ubiquitous and so dead that he is easy not to think about at all. It’s as though…
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Bad Reviews
I took a community-college workshop five years ago with Kirk Stoller, an artist whose work I could look at forever. Kirk used carpentry tailings…
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The Soft Syncretism of Tau Lewis
In Vox Populi, Vox Dei, Tau Lewis’s recent exhibition at 52 Walker, textiles and temporal forces worked together to unstitch and rethread imperial mythmaking….
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Love and Loneliness: Queering Modernisms in Figurative Painting
I work on 22nd Street in the Chelsea gallery district of Manhattan, so it was easy to notice the painting. Louis Fratino’s I keep…
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“What Makes Great Art?”: Momus: The Podcast with Osei Bonsu (Episode 9)
In continuing our season-long exploration of the question “What makes great art?” co-hosts Lauren Wetmore and Sky Goodden speak to essential voices about what…
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Worst-Case Scenarios: Contemporary Art’s #Metoo Handwringing
Like most grassroots movements borne of slow-simmering anger and long-standing frustration, #MeToo is both overdue and messy as hell. Its faint whiff of anarchy…
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Interview: Lois Andison Talks Back to Male Modernists
Twice in the past year I’ve visited Olga Korper and she’s taken me from the gallery, past the offices, through her kitchen (where there’s…
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