Cover image: Julia Scher, Vigilance, 1991. Photograph of exhibition. Image courtesy juliascher.com. Since the revelations of Edward Snowden in 2013, it has become impossible to avoid the… Continue Reading Art and Surveillance
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With the changes brought on by the global pandemic, it is especially poignant to visit an exhibition celebrating the art of students and young graduates.… Continue Reading Reflections on “Yüzleşme, Confrontation:” Yeditepe University Faculty of Fine Arts Exhibition of Students and Graduates at Pera Museum in Istanbul
Few art events are as grassroots as SPRING/BREAK. Spread across two floors in a Midtown East office building, artist- and curator-assembled exhibitions bloom in otherwise… Continue Reading At SPRING/BREAK, Smartphones Become Sacred and Free Weights Grow Fur
The history of all hitherto existing society may well have been the history of class struggle, but this struggle has been pitched against a background… Continue Reading On Labor Day Hurricanes
A sidelong glance reveals as much as a direct gaze—which Hans Holbein the Younger humorously demonstrated in The Ambassadors (1533) by depicting a skull at… Continue Reading John Edmonds Gives Us Some Serious Side Eye
Alice Neel: People Come First, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through August 1, 2021, could be an unexpectedly emotionally intense experience for… Continue Reading “Alice Neel: People Come First” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Eric Goh discusses how the pandemic motivated him to take a year off from his studies and start Mutual Aid Projects, a curator-run project space in Kuala Lampur. Continue Reading Eric Goh on Mutual Aid and Friendship as a Pathway Out of Disaster
Factories always fascinate me, as I often wonder how the things I eat, use, or consume are manufactured by workers or machines: transforming raw materials… Continue Reading “Whose Utopia” – Cao Fei at the Museum of Modern Art
About Time: Fashion and Duration is the biggest exhibition of the year for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and part of… Continue Reading “About Time: Fashion and Duration” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Recently, the artist Tishan Hsu, who had largely retreated from public view since first emerging in the New York scene during the late 1980s, resurfaced in 2020. Continue Reading The works speak for themselves: Tishan Hsu at SculptureCenter