Jack Whitten, Human Xerox Machine
Tilt your ear to a Jack Whitten painting and you might hear music. “You gotta be able to think like John Coltrane to do…
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A Feeling Between the Lines: The Anxious Influence of Agnes Martin’s “Writings”
The painter Agnes Martin contemplated language with a great deal of skepticism. Though she produced an impressive body of written work, mostly compiled and…
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They Made Him Gray: The Whitney Museum Dims Artist and Mystic Harry Smith
When you first walk into Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith at the Whitney Museum, you’re greeted by Andy Warhol’s…
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“A Multiculti Blitzkrieg”: On the Ascendance of the Curator of Color
Yoshio Taniguchi’s 2004 expansion of the Museum of Modern Art integrated the glass buildings on either side of the museum so that when you…
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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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Proving the Rule: The “Exceptionalism” Problem with Art-World Labor
It’s a rainy winter day in New York amid the ongoing apocalypse and I am struggling to think about museums. I do not, any…
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On Whiteness
In 2017, I started working with Claudia Rankine and a collective called the Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII). For their inaugural project they were curating…
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Jill Mulleady’s Twilight Hour
Last year, during New York City’s extended lockdown, one of the few works still on public display was a mural hung outside the Whitney…
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“I Don’t Go to Crisis Just Yet”: Four Painters Discuss the Rise of Figurative Painting
What’s the fuss about the new representation? A recent spate of articles and exhibitions have addressed the new representational painting – some generously, others…
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Episode 19: “What’s Changed, and What Should?” with Johanna Fateman
For this episode, Sky Goodden spoke with art writer and musician Johanna Fateman, a regular contributor to The New Yorker, a contributing editor…
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