Reviews
Amanda Grae Platner: It’s Still Not Me, It’s You
In It’s Still Not Me, It’s You at Atlanta’s Echo Contemporary Art, Platner’s self-portraits and installations invite the viewer into her world. She coaxes empathy through a variety of strategies, some that are playful and interactive, others that involve showing pain.
The 2nd Helsinki Biennial’s Call to Action
Curated by professor Joasia Krysa, the title of the Helsinki Biennial’s second edition, New Directions May Emerge, quoted anthropologist Anna...
The 12th Liverpool Biennial: Actual and Curatorial Displacements
Drawing on the isiZulu word for spirit, breath, air, climate, and wind, the 12th Liverpool Biennial, uMoya: The Sacred Return...
Simphiwe Mbunyuza has something to say —
Inkobe, Umnandi Ngo Chubelana
Touch. Quietude. Play. The haptic constitutes prayer (what we do all the time these days) and longing. We mean to...
Bioshelter Toilet
With the conviction that the world’s ecosystems were under siege, fisheries biologists John Todd and William McLarney, with writer Nancy...
Arata Isozaki, Re-Ruined Hiroshima, Photomontage, 1968
Repeated throughout his career and intoned almost like a dirge, the potent phrase “The city of the future lies in...
Flipper, Cousteau, and Homo aquaticus
The broadcast of Flipper and Jacques Cousteau’s documentaries introduced audiences to a seemingly alien world. But these popular shows sought...
The Population Bomb in the Rearview Mirror
“The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will...
Series Collapsed by MPA
Infinity had to start somewhere. ∞, also known as the lemniscate, the ouroboros, or the “lazy eight”—often a line with...
Milk
Charting the historical, cultural, and scientific resonances of milk, the exhibition draws connections between protection and power. Across the works, milk closes the space between bodies. It destabilizes those things we typically consider natural, and it asks who gets to participate in the fantasy of motherhood.