Month: November 2021
I Will Not Be Purified
Anyone who has ever been life-threateningly ill will know the desperation it breeds. You’ll try anything. You’ll do anything. And when treatments fail, and doctors—shockingly unskilled in empathy—shrug and suggest this means you will die, you start looking anywhere for help.
Katherine Jentleson: Whose History of American Art?
Katherine Jentleson and Logan Lockner reflect on the creation of two concurrent exhibitions at the High Museum of Art—”Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe and “Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America.”
Angela Ziqi Zhang and Maggie Crowley: Flash, Bang, Fizz
In the summer of 2021, two solo exhibitions in Chicago, one by Maggie Crowley and another by Angela Ziqi Zhang, echoed one another in many ways: connected by the dotted lines of the artists’ friendship and shared history, the presentations revealed common concerns—around value and experience, affect and attention—that play out in both of their practices through distinct visual and material registers.
A Training in Suspense—Stacey Abrams’ While Justice Sleeps
In “Training in Suspense,” Courtney McClellan questions the implication of veracity in the recent spate of politician-penned political thrillers by way of Stacey Abrams’ new novel, While Justice Sleeps.
The Athens Dialogues: Interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist
Bleeding Out: On the Use of Blood in Contemporary Art
Blood corrupts conventions of purity and privacy to suggest all elements of the body can be used for expression.