Reviews
The Athens Dialogues: Interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist
“The future is built from fragments of the past” Hans Ulrich Obrist muses, invoking Erwin Panofsky in the introduction to...
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...
Endless Séance
“ … go to Carver High School/ the new schools at Carver. Park in the lot next to the baseball...
Estamos Bien – La Trienal 20/21
Following a year of heightened calls for corrective change to social imbalances in the United States, particularly as they are...
The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse
Growing up in Decatur, IL, meant that the hip-hop which influenced me was a combination of art and artists from...
Fabienne Lasserre: Eye Contact
Paintings have always talked to walls—what’s on, built into, attached to, hung from, and tucked away inside them; how they...
Suzanne Bocanegra: Valley
“If I am such a legend, then why am I so lonely?” Judy Garland once lamented. The Hollywood icon was...
2021 Atlanta Biennial: Of Care and Destruction
Following a nine-year hiatus since its previous edition, the Atlanta Biennial was resurrected by Atlanta Contemporary in 2016 to present...