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By Tom McGlynnSeptember 22, 2014 0

Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness” at MoMA

What happens when interlocking systems of institutional assumptions about aesthetic valence are deployed as an over-mined field of critical data? How does a shopping list of representative art historical tropes morph into a dynamic rhetorical narrative to unpack those very…

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By Eunice Hurd & Maja OrsicSeptember 22, 2014 0

Video Profile: Sarah Malakoff

Nest. Cave. Den. When we speak about our homes, the spaces we have carved out for ourselves in the world, we speak of them in terms once reserved for animal habitats. Like crows and magpies, drawn to bright plastics and…

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By David CurcioSeptember 22, 2014 0

The Boxing Lithographs of George Bellows at The Boston Public Library

By David Curcio George Bellows said, “I don’t know anything about boxing, I am just painting two men trying to kill each other.” What underlies the attraction to such violence? As a reenactment of Freud’s postlapsarian, atavistic death instinct outlined…

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By William J. SimmonsSeptember 22, 2014 0

On Second (Wave) Thought: Jeff Koons’s Feminisms

In a recent article in The Brooklyn Rail, Chloe Wyma argues against what she sees as the commodification of feminism through the institutionalization of key artworks like Kara Walker’s A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby (2014) and Judy Chicago’s…

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By Heather KapplowJune 16, 2014 0

Pen in Hand: Performance, Writing, and Performance Writing

Let me introduce you to J. L. Austin1 and John R. Searle.2 These two guys were like my two best friends in college. Well, them and Stelarc, but Stelarc is kind of a weird guy . . . Anyway, if…

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By Chris RusakJune 16, 2014 0

Heidegger on Art as Phenomenon and Light

Contemporary art is losing its sheen. This despite the fact that hyper-expensive, hyper-polished sculptures from the studio of artist Jeff Koons fetch double-digit millions from collectors clamoring for ownership of such “tchotchkes.”1 Koons and kindred blue-chip artists certainly believe the…

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By Brian BishopJune 16, 2014 0

Painting in Retrograde

For many years I have been wrestling with the lack of forward momentum in the critical dialogue surrounding Painting.1 A condition that is somewhat unique to the discipline, since other media or métier2 have successfully evolved beyond the dated confines…

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By Kyle ChaykaJune 16, 2014 0

Monotopia

1. The word “Utopia” was first coined by Thomas More in his 1516 manuscript of the same name. More, a prominent philosopher and statesman who was eventually beheaded for treason by King Henry VIII when he refused to break with…

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By Stephen PersingMay 19, 2014 0

Alas, Damien Hirst

Everything Damien Hirst touches turns to hype. Would he be half as well liked or despised without his carnival of publicity? Much of what has been written about Hirst is unnecessary writing: Journalism and press agentry that will last like…

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By William J. SimmonsMay 19, 2014 0

Of Vulvas and Car Hoods: William J. Simmons Interviews Judy Chicago

At the press preview for Chicago in L.A.: Judy Chicago’s Early Work, 1963—74 at the Brooklyn Museum, curated by Catherine J. Morris, Sackler Family Curator, with Saisha Grayson, Assistant Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Judy Chicago recounted…

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By William J. SimmonsApril 14, 2014 0

Cornered Pictures: Laurie Simmons’s “Kigurumi, Dollers, and How We See” at Salon 94 Bowery

A corner is the intersection of different lines or edges, a place wherein one is both trapped and radically free to chose among different directions. Kazimir Malevich hung his Suprematist manifesto Black Square (1915) in the corner of the gallery,…

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By Tom McGlynnApril 14, 2014 0

The 2014 Whitney Biennial

The last Biennial to be held at Marcel Breuer’s grey granite bunker on Madison Avenue, before the Whitney moves to a new building on the Highline, boasts a collaborative team of curators. Stuart Comer is Chief Curator of Media and…

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By Michael RoseApril 14, 2014 0

A Pretty Death: Lusting For Ruins Then and Now

On March 4, 2014, Ruin Lust opened at the Tate Britain. The show hosts a parade of famous artists from throughout the canon of art history who used scenes of architectural decay and environmental abandonment as central motifs in their…

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By Sarah PollmanApril 14, 2014 0

“El Anatsui: New Worlds” at the Mount Holyoke College Museum of Art

El Anatsui’s works are constructed from reclaimed liquor bottle caps and bands that are flattened and joined with copper wire. The stitched aluminum creates massive sheets that bend and fold over the gallery walls, hovering between painting and sculpture. The…

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By Ian Alden RussellMarch 17, 2014 0

Video Profile: John Gonzalez

John C. Gonzalez works with people. A native of Providence, Rhode Island, his artwork is broadly concerned with systems of labor and collaborative processes of creativity. Positioning himself as an embedded artist within organizations, companies, and exchange relationships, he exposes…

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By Stephen PersingMarch 17, 2014 0

The Orphan’s Friend

I spent the latter half of my childhood in a small town in eastern Connecticut. Once it had been strictly rural, but by the latter half of the twentieth-century was slowly succumbing to the inevitable creep of suburbia. For the…

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By Heather KapplowMarch 17, 2014 0

Destabilization of Perspective and the Question of What Happens Next

I like Finland probably more than I should.1 I haven’t gone so far as to stalk Finland (because really, where would that get me?) but I have tattooed Finland’s initials permanently on my body, written a love letter to Finland…

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By Desi GonzalezFebruary 18, 2014 0

The Thing Quarterly: A Conversation with Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan

Like many publications, The Thing Quarterly arrives to the home of subscribers four times a year. The form of its contents, however, is wholly unpredictable. Since 2007, the forces behind The Thing, Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan, have invited figures…

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By Stephen PersingFebruary 18, 2014 0

Visible Cities

Everyone wants to live somewhere else, and, much of the time, we do just that. We edit our perceptions, wreathing a place in nostalgic associations or turning a blind eye to present social injustice. To one extent or another, we…

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By Ximena Izquierdo UgazFebruary 18, 2014 0

When I move, they move; when they move, I move: video works by Amapola Prada

I met Amapola Prada in the summer of 2013 when my collaborator and lover Bryan Rodriguez and I returned to Lima to make a film and do a residency at Zona 30. We lived there for a month or so…

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