Tilt your ear to a Jack Whitten painting and you might hear music. “You gotta be able to think like John Coltrane to ...

Elizabeth Wiet. Elizabeth Wiet is a writer and editor based in New York. She is currently deputy editor at Topical Cream and contributing editor at Bidoun. Her writing has appeare ...

An eight-foot wooden ramp was propped up at a forty-five-degree angle in one corner. Knotted ropes hung from six holes drilled near the ramp’s… Read More Carla, Reviews • October 7, 2021 ...

While I had followed their work for some time, I did not meet Catalina Ouyang until last fall, at a symposium at Stanford University called IMU UR2: Art, Aesthetics, and Asian America. We were ...

Christina Ramberg: A Retrospective is an engrossing presentation of the late artist, who died young in 1995 and left behind paintings of alluring ambiguity: bound hands, women disrobing, and “corset ...

Dawit L. Petros: I’ve always understood the need to balance the production or the study of visual cultural materials with textual and written materials. With the understanding that an object (like a ...

By centering her body in these works, including on the metaphorical “negotiating table,” Hatoum spotlights a neglected theater of the Lebanese Civil War, fought on and through women’s bodies. Moreover ...

Pablo Picasso is so famous and so ubiquitous and so dead that he is easy not to think about at all. It’s as though ...

My favorite page in Rabbit-Hole, the latest bookwork by Sonja Ahlers, contains only one image and one line of text. The image is a scan of a slightly stained photograph of the artist in a lacy white ...

Every five or six years, the painter Margaux Williamson quits painting. In these moments, she thinks she might not go back. But something always comes shuddering darkly up – an instinct, a distant ...

On August 29, 2023, the Globe and Mail published an article headlined “Toronto’s cash-strapped Artscape to enter receivership, end management of 14 artist facilities.” ...

Decolonization involves destruction and upheaval, but in equal measures is a process of creation—a radical world-building that imparts not only a political but cultural and ecological heritage. This ...