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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The Final Fart: A Meditation on Hannah Wilke’s Last Work
Hannah Wilke knew what a death mask was. She knew that a death mask is an event, not an object. She knew that the…
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Mary Mattingly’s Way to Adapt
On an unseasonably warm day in mid-December, I took a ferry from lower Manhattan on the short trip across to Governors Island. I was…
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Correcting for the Bawdy Rage of Paula Rego
The New York Times review of Paula Rego’s Tate Britain retrospective, published on July 7, begins: “Paula Rego is the kind of artist who paints a…
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Learning as Supporting: Alternatives for Futures in Art Education
Artist Eliza Swann moved to Los Angeles in 2013, after the spirit of a raven told her, head west. Swann had been in the…
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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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The Most Important Art Essays of the Year
This time last year, my editor asked me to put together a list of the most important essays of 2014, and I drew a blank….
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