August 28, 2023

What Should Art Criticism Do?
Selections from Track Changes: A Handbook for Art Criticism
Read MoreArt writing of many varieties, except the obscure and commercial, from our sister magazine.
August 28, 2023
Kemi Adeyemi, Tausif Noor, Monica Uszerowicz
Selections from Track Changes: A Handbook for Art Criticism
Read MoreApril 28, 2023
Is it possible for someone named Josh Kline to be Filipino American?
Like many mixed-race/mixed-culture peoples who have emerged, are emerging, or perhaps yearn to emerge from a colonial legacy, most Filipinos see no contradiction in this racial, ethnic, and cultural mix. It is not a problem or a source of confusion to the people in that mix.
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June 5, 2021
Extreme disparity here acts as a unifying foundation
Read MoreMarch 3, 2021
Mel Chin, Aruna D’Souza, Hyperlink Press, and Patrick Jaojoco in conversation with Daisy Nam and Christopher K. Ho
January 7, 2020
A Speculative Review of #NewMoMA
These kinds of contrasts give rise to history understood as a morass of unresolved conflicts and multiple lines of flight, rather than a unified tale of artistic development. Of course, none of the current constellations break new ground or present innovative scholarship—that is still a step too far for even #newMoMA—but they renounce the egregious evasions that were previously MoMA’s calling card.
October 17, 2019
Counterculture is a praxis
Imagining the person of color as a counterculturalist, as a weirdo or bohemian, means imagining them as someone who cannot be processed easily into the threat/victim dichotomy, but must be imagined as someone who can wreak joy and pleasure and strangeness upon the world.
July 30, 2019
How can art institutions be better?
Read MoreMarch 10, 2016
Neighbors reported seeing a distraught Gorky hitting his head against the ground as the building went up in flames.
October 1, 2014
Celebrating the mystery and ingeniousness of these human activities which, for lack of a better term, we call “contemporary art.”
In the late 1980s, a series of apparently unremarkable group exhibitions begin to take place in galleries and art centers around France. Each show is presented as a selection from the holdings of a pair of young collectors. Only gradually does the public start to realize that all the artists in these shows, which run the gamut of contemporary avant-garde styles, are in fact inventions of the “collectors,” a duo of artists who have taken the postmodern tendency of stylistic diversity to an extreme end.
February 19, 2014
Artists’ words have long been met with skepticism, not least by artists themselves.
October 16, 2013
I had the thought, the pretty embarrassing thought, that I was just between activisms.
May 28, 2013
Guyton is making sure/ photographers will always finish second place/ by using their technology and exploiting it/ better than them