Reviews
Memoria
A murky predawn setting opens Memoria, the camera trained on gray curtains inside a seemingly empty bedroom. Everything is hushed,...
2021 Texas Biennial: A New Landscape, A Possible Horizon
Texas is as complicated as it is big, and the 2021 Texas Biennial, featuring more than 50 artists (mostly) working...
Talking Back: Zineb Sedira’s Voice-Over
Projection walls of movie theaters are curved to correct for distortion. Images projected on them appear flat because of an...
Duane Linklater: mymothersside
Far in the distance of a vast, snow-covered clearing, men dressed in North Face jackets approach a large, dark mass...
Candice Lin: Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping
*This piece will be published in our Winter 2021 issue, and is a sneak peek of what’s to come in...
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...