But in his series All Night Menu, the writer and publisher Sam Sweet offers yet a third, new form of LA history: that of the ...

Between 1973 and 1978, Lynn Hershman Leeson hired photographers to document the life of her alter ego, Roberta Breitmore.

In Joyce Joumaa’s exhibition Prologue, music from the second, back gallery bled into the first: “اﻟﺑﺣر ﺑﻌﺷق اﻧﺎ – اﻟﺻﻐﯾرة ...

I got lost several times on my way to Casa Susanna, the exhibition I had set out to write about. It was a sticky Friday night in July—“date night” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as the Met ...

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 his most renowned artworks are in the next gallery along with his clownish public ...

Tilt your ear to a Jack Whitten painting and you might hear music. “You gotta be able to think like John Coltrane to do what I am doing in painting,” the artist said in the final decade of his life.

When it comes to critical analysis of an Indigenous artist’s output, there is a tendency to circumscribe. We want to capture and we want to contain—the work, the ethos, the artist herself. We ask ...

The German American artist Eva Hesse kept meticulous diaries throughout the late sixties and seventies that account for both her personal and professional anxieties, her creative process and ...

As the longest-running institutional survey of contemporary American art, the Whitney Biennial never fails to create “discourse.” Each iteration makes a claim about the cultural moment in which it ...

For the past few weeks, I’ve been mulling over an image from a single-channel video by interdisciplinary artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons. In Baño Sagrado (Rite of Initiation, Sacred Bath) (1991), ...

The best way to fuck something up is to give it a body. A voice is killed when it is given a body. Whenever there’s a body around you see its faults. Theory proves that. —Mike Kelley, Dialogue #1 (An ...

I first saw Martin Wong’s prison paintings when I visited a two-person exhibition of Wong and the contemporary painter Aaron Gilbert at PPOW Gallery in 2021. Five of them were included in the show. I ...