Month: November 2022
Roberto Visani and The Promise
The heat wave had broken a day or so before, so having an iron pour in July in Louisville was...
Azza El Siddique: In the place of annihilation, where all the past was present and returned transformed
Azza El Siddique’s exhibition at MIT List Visual Arts Center is a treatise on scent and transformation. In the place...
A Movement of the Earth Against the World
Kassel has a fabled history. The Brothers Grimm emerged here during a paradigm shift that marked the amalgamation of Germany’s...
Vadis Turner Encounters
The night before I flew to Alabama, I went to opening night of Medea at the Metropolitan Opera. Typical characters—rich,...
BREYER P-ORRIDGE: We Are But One
In We Are But One [April 15–July 10, 2022]—the first major, posthumous US exhibition of artists, musicians, occultists, and spouses...
12th Berlin Biennale: Still Present!
It took time for my thoughts on Still Present!, the 12th Berlin Biennale, to settle. At first, my impressions veered...
Kameelah Janan Rasheed: Chasing Things That Cannot Be Chased
Kameelah Janan Rasheed is a learner—an elastic term that includes artist, writer, teacher, collaborator, and public speaker. In Smooooooooooooooth Operator,...
TJ Shin: Unbecoming Human
Los Angeles–based artist TJ Shin’s work centers on living processes. It explores the felt experience of postcoloniality through intimate sensorial...