Month: October 2021
Show & Tell: On Joan Didion’s Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Self-assuredness has always been part of Joan Didion’s appeal. Guesswork and rumination are out of sight, somewhere in the drafts....
Huguette Caland: Tête-à-Tête
In recent years, Huguette Caland (1931–2019) and a group of women artists of Lebanese origin, working in abstraction—including Saloua Raouda...
Look, it’s daybreak, dear, time to sing
Upward of 30 or more bird families are known to use simple tools. We humans ought not be surprised by...
Against Closure: John Akomfrah and the Monumental
John Akomfrah’s practice can be considered in relation to the problematics of monuments, and it is apt to do so at a time of widespread decommissioning of statues depicting individuals long celebrated for their roles in dominant narratives of human progress.