Amy Sillman is a highly regarded painter, writer, and curator based in New York. One might regard her as a consummate insider. The artist... The post Changing the Ground: Amy Sillman Talks Abou...
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The painter Agnes Martin contemplated language with a great deal of skepticism. Though she produced an impressive body of written work, mostly compiled and... The post A Feeling Between the Lin...
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A lone wolf stalks the edges of Sacha Yanow’s one-person performance Uncle! that premiered at The Kitchen in New York in February. In nature,... The post On the Sense of Queer Loneliness: Sac...
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In El abrazo, Delcy Morelos’s site-specific solo exhibition at Dia Chelsea in New York, two earthworks swell against the perimeters of two discrete, darkened... The post Embraced by an Amniot...
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Pizandawatc / The One Who Listens / Celui qui écoute, a recent exhibition at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto (AMUT), draws... The post Caroline Monnet’s Uneasy Objects appeared ...
In the fall of 2023, when I came to New York on a research fellowship, I visited Levani’s studio for the second time. Levani,... The post Falling From the Tower: Levani on the Necessity of En...
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“The Sound-Sweep,” a 1960 short story by J. G. Ballard, takes place in a world where normal music has been supplanted by soundless, uncontaminated... The post Can We Tune the Museum? Laurie...
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Satisfaction (2000) by the artist Alexis Smith is a collage that features a shabby reproduction of Hokusai’s The Great Wave placed within a glitzy... The post She Was Paying Attention: Rememb...
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I was once teleported to Chapada dos Veadeiros (Plateau of the Deer Protectors) National Park in the southwestern region of the state of Goiás... The post Do You Believe in Aliens?: Re-Indigen...
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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... The post Our Visuality: Abortion Care Work and Photograph...
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