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The Design Isn’t Firm; Or, Why Do Curators Talk Like That?
To encounter ambitious contemporary art, you must also encounter the world of the international curator, the most prominent member of the global art world. He’s there at the gala preview, she’s up at...
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Tania Candiani: In Conversation With Julio César Morales
One of the last times I saw Tania we drank a bottle of Blanton’s Kentucky Bourbon and laid on the floor in my living room in Phoenix listening for hours to music tracks by The Electric Light Orchestra,...
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On Point 2.06: Remembering Richard Berger
By the time any of you are reading this, I will have already given my eulogy for Richard Berger, and only time will tell if it accorded with what I am writing here. Richard passed away on March 3 of...
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Objects Not To Scale: Contemporary Mappa Mundi Of The Surveillance State
When NSA documents released by Edward Snowden first went public, one extremely pointed and particular angle of outrage came not from privacy activists but from designers. Horrified more by the...
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Lynn Hershman Leeson: In Conversation With Terri Cohn
When did you become or realize you were a conceptual artist? I think it was probably in the late ‘60s when I wanted to push the boundaries of traditional painting and sculpture. This included...
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A Proposed Framework For Considering Network Critique Media
Much of Internet culture uncritically frolics in an ecology greatly affected by the unique opportunities and affordances of the Internet and the web while ignoring the boundaries and limitations that...
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A Theory Of Possible Futures: Sharjah Biennial 12
At first sight, the city is nowhere as inebriating as the neighboring Dubai, with its maximalist now-iconic skyline, particularly sugarcoated for the Art Week and concomitant Art Dubai, the city’s...
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The Owl Of Minerva
It is not pleasant to contemplate the thoughts that must be passing through the mind of the Owl of Minerva as the dusk falls and she undertakes the task of interpreting the era of human civilization,...
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Elaine Cameron-Weir: In Conversation With Alex Bacon
Alex Bacon met with Elaine Cameron-Weir in her Brooklyn studio to discuss some of the issues at play in and around her work. Structured less as an investigation of Cameron-Weir’s biography, the...
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Art As Asset: Financialization And The Art Market
In February, the artist Sarah Meyohas invented her own currency called “BitchCoin,” which she presented in collaboration with Where Gallery in Brooklyn, as part of their current exhibition Where 6:...
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Pippi, Joni, And Virginia: Too Busy Being Free
White Ladies of the Canyon In February, Joni Mitchell told New York Magazine that she has an affinity for black men. In fact, she went on, she really understands what it’s like to be a black man...
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That Domino Effect: The Hidden Story In The U.S. Immigration Debate (Part Three)
Following World War II, the Red Menace mentality held a death grip over U.S. foreign policy. In the 1950s it fomented U.S.-backed clandestine coups, by the ‘60s covert and not-so-covert...
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A Curatorial Contact High
In early February 2015, I met with UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive adjunct curator Constance Lewallen and assistant curator Stephanie Cannizzo in the now-closed galleries (BAM/PFA is...
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Dave Hickey: In Conversation With Jarrett Earnest (Part Two)
One of the things that surprises me to no end, and this is an operation of power, is that people feel unable to just go do something else. My ever-ready “plan B” is to move to the beach with some hot...
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