Review
Avantika Bawa: APEX and Coliseum
Avantika Bawa’s APEX and Coliseum examine a Portland, OR landmark that stirs halcyon memories among several generations of architecture and...
Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It
In a political landscape where truth can feel fluid at best and arbitrary at worst, it seems apt that archival...
Rachel Rampleman: Oh! You Pretty Things
On the day I visited Weston Art Gallery in Cincinnati, OH, to see Rachel Rampleman’s mid-career survey, Oh! You Pretty...
Order & Chaos
In ancient times, when philosophy informed the sciences and our knowledge of the brain was speculative or mythological, the anatomical...
Christine Sun Kim: Too Much Future
Nina Sun Eidsheim’s 2015 text Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice sits at the fore of recent scholarly...
Jesse Darling: The Ballad of Saint Jerome
In Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation, artist and activist Sunaura Taylor speaks from her own experiences toward a...
Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma
Entering the Pulitzer Arts Foundation to view Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma, which was organized by the Menil Collection in Houston,...
The Universe Flickers
“How do you create a record or generate matter in transitory times when the very limits of language, registers, and representation of truth are severely tested?”
The National Gingerbread House Competition™
Talking (with a Gingerbread Craftswoman) Over the phone, she tells me about her experiences in college, the TV shows she’s...
With Drawn Arms: Glenn Kaino & Tommie Smith
Each of us keeps images in mind that are without context or explanation. These memories and images don’t have to...