Peter Hujar’s Still Life in Motion
There is a photograph installed near the end of Peter Hujar: Rialto at New York’s Ukrainian Museum that still holds my attention. It is…
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Our Visuality: Abortion Care Work and Photography
What is the visuality of abortion care? Though I am writing this text for a publication based in Los Angeles—once my home for many…
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A Clinic the Size of the World
And, like the world, a lunatic asylum is a mosaic of the passions. —An asylum doctor in the Sarthe, 1837 Upon discovering an illness,…
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Bad Faith in MOCA Toronto’s Inaugural Show, “Believe”
I’ve spent the better part of five months trying to write a review of a show that’s now closed: MOCA Toronto’s inaugural exhibition, Believe….
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New Books: Gauguin and Proust Meet at the Border of Painting and Literature
The old quarrel between critics and artists (especially painters) plays out with exuberance in two pamphlet-like essays now available from David Zwirner Books. Adding…
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Why We Photograph
For reasons good, and some of little consequence, and a few terrible, indeed shattering, I’ve been to more cities in the last year than…
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