A Parallel Landscape: Ned Pratt’s Abstract Sublime
In Canadian art’s long and unswift adaptation of an avant-garde, landscape painting yielded to an important reduction, an essentializing that rendered place ancillary, and…
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The Depressing Power of Art in Raphaëlle de Groot’s “Summit Meetings”
Between 2009 and 2012, Raphaëlle de Groot invited people to give her objects that they no longer wanted but couldn’t get rid of. As…
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“You Can’t Win It”: Jon McCurley on the Art of Facebook
I woke up this morning to find that Jon McCurley was emitting tiny wails from the “isolation chamber” of Facebook late last night, a…
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In Search of Himself: Sky Glabush’s Mimetic Practice Drifts Into the Neo-Modernist Trend
“Artists don’t own the meaning of their work.” New York Times critic Roberta Smith issued this controversial and affecting line to a full auditorium…
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To Cloak or Reveal: Ryan Gander on the Question That Dogs Him
At the end of our interview Ryan Gander is suggesting we meet again, “Same time next week?” He’s laughing. I’ve involuntarily submitted myself to…
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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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Any Plans After the Exhibition?
The image above is an installation shot from When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013. It was a recreation of Harald Szeeman’s famous exhibition…
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The Problem of Access: An Interview with Emerging First Nations Artist Joseph Tisiga
Joseph Tisiga is an emerging artist of a particular stripe. He is young (born in 1984), and very successful: he was nominated as a…
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These Are Not Ideas; These Are Things: A Conversation with Liz Magor
Liz Magor claims her “space between the mould and the cast.” It’s a pronouncement reified by thirty years of installation and sculpture that reads…
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The Future of Online Arts Publishing: A Roundtable with artnet News, Momus, and Temporary Art Review
Everything about publishing is changing, including art criticism and news. What sort of art coverage we consume, how we consume it, and on what…
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