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... The post Love and Loneliness: Queering Modernisms in Figur...
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“What, then, is the aura? A strange tissue of space and time: the unique apparition of a distance, however near it may be. To... The post “All Awareness Becomes Base”: Jens Hoffmann’s R...
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The best way to fuck something up is to give it a body. A voice is killed when it is given a body. Whenever... The post The Suffering Body of 1993: Whatever Happened to the “Abject” appear...
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“1. I believe in an alchemy of time. That a certain combination of words, a length of inaction, a discomposed room, or with some... The post “What Instruments Have We?”: A Conversation wi...
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How does performance art survive? What artifacts, narratives, or documents testify to performance’s occurrence? For the genre’s venerable practitioners from its historic moment of... The po...
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The Denny Gallery may have given themselves a curatorial headache with the title of their current exhibition, Share This! Appropriation After Cynicism. There are... The post Querying the New Ap...
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To cast back and select my favorite art this year requires a mnemonic leap of faith. I’d hope the ‘best’ exhibitions, pieces, and events... The post Year in Review: The Women Represented ...
The word “post-internet” is a useful, if maybe not quite necessary, evil. First attributed to the writing of artist Marisa Olson, the term has... The post Kill the Expert: An Interview with...
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Let me begin with an art historical chestnut — a 1855 painting by the French painter Gustave Courbet called The Artist’s Studio, A Real... The post The Commons of Aggregation: The Case for ...
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If you’ve taken the New York subway in the last couple of months, you’ve probably seen advertisements for the Whitney Museum’s Jeff Koons exhibition.... The post Nice Things: The Pleasure...
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