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Tilt your ear to a Jack Whitten painting and you might hear music. “You gotta be able to think like John Coltrane to ...
At three intervals throughout Vijay Masharani’s eighteen-minute video Good Attack (2021), the camera fixates on a sign ...
Mimi Howard. Mimi Howard is a writer and critic based in New York whose work explores contemporary art and the legacies of ...
An eight-foot wooden ramp was propped up at a forty-five-degree angle in one corner. Knotted ropes hung from six holes drilled near the ramp’s… Read More Carla, Reviews • October 7, 2021 ...
Visibly shaken professors made a special announcement at our university’s recent Race Equity Caucus meeting. They’d been harassed for participating in a virtual conference called “Dismantling Global ...
While I had followed their work for some time, I did not meet Catalina Ouyang until last fall, at a symposium at Stanford University called IMU UR2: Art, Aesthetics, and Asian America. We were ...
An eight-foot wooden ramp was propped up at a forty-five-degree angle in one corner. Knotted ropes hung from six holes drilled near the ramp’s top. The din of the ongoing installation echoed from ...
When I used the term “Muslim body” in my curatorial note* for an exhibition in New Delhi last year, I did not anticipate the extent to which it would draw institutional ire. I had used it as an ...
Pablo Picasso is so famous and so ubiquitous and so dead that he is easy not to think about at all. It’s as though ...
The perverse emotional center of Bad Reviews is Arlene Croce’s New Yorker essay “ Discussing the Undiscussable,” about her refusal to attend Bill T. Jones’s 1994 multidisciplinary dance performance ...
By centering her body in these works, including on the metaphorical “negotiating table,” Hatoum spotlights a neglected theater of the Lebanese Civil War, fought on and through women’s bodies. Moreover ...
Dawit L. Petros: I’ve always understood the need to balance the production or the study of visual cultural materials with textual and written materials. With the understanding that an object (like a ...