For sixteen minutes and thirty-three seconds, I watched Deborah-Joyce Holman’s film Close-Up (2024), relinquishing anticipation for what may happen next and settling into an ease of the ordinary scene ...

Gervais Marsh. Dr. Gervais Marsh is a writer, curator, and scholar based in New York City, whose practice meditates on ...

What do you see when you look at pictures of President Trump’s cabinet?” asks writer David French in an interactive web ...

They arrive at my Salt Lake City apartment in the middle of the afternoon on the tenth of September, 2016, and we’re on the road within minutes. Dani and Sheilah, both art professors in Ohio, are ...

The suburb of Westland, Michigan, where Mike Kelley grew up, may be one of the only cities in the US renamed after a mall.

Growing up with a mother who overidentified with the home, I pulled away from ideas of the domestic in my own caricatured understanding of it. Therefore, it would be typical of me to be more ...

What’s left of art in Toronto? Since November 2023, three curators no longer hold their positions at contemporary art institutions in Toronto. Anishinaabe curator Wanda Nanibush’s “departure,” as the ...

Mehra’s work has this effect: one minute you believe you’re in on the joke, and the next minute you’re disassembled, caught up in the ways that the ghosts of colonialism and white supremacy continue ...

Hesse—and her legacy—is also the reason the editor David Richardson and I first met. For years Richardson and our friend Sal Randolph operated the publishing project dispersed holdings out of Hesse’s ...

Shelly’s personae are disturbingly elaborate and just as self-contradictory, confusing, and multilayered as the reality we live in, largely because they often come from real-life experiences. They ...

At first glance, the earth spilling out from behind the tall, squared columns of the German pavilion’s facade appears to be a pile of rubble, reminiscent of a war zone or construction site. However, ...

Pacita Abad, the Filipina artist who roamed the world like a traveling bard, was twenty-four when she left home in 1970. By the time she died at fifty-eight, she had gone on more adventures than the ...