Of the five figures depicted in Pablo Picasso’s enduringly outrageous Las Chicas de Avignon (the title he supposedly ...

Coco Fusco’s breakout came three decades ago at a high watermark of debates over identity politics and multiculturalism, ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the ancient Greeks, the division of time was represented by a separation of chronos from kairos. To symbolize durational or cyclical time, Greco-Roman mosaics personified chronos as a god turning ...

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 top. The din of the ongoing installation echoed from ...

“A pendant hangs, an amulet works,” claims Fawn, a character in curator Kiel Torres’s script and accompanying text for the exhibition Wishing on My Falsies at Western Front. “Fashion is a sugar pill ...

Pizandawatc / The One Who Listens / Celui qui écoute, a recent exhibition at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto (AMUT), draws its title from the traditional name of artist Caroline Monnet’s ...

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. The question is, now, in an artworld and social ...

Chicago has never really recovered from Imagism. That local explosion—whose blast radius stretched from roughly the late 1940s through the mid-1970s—gave the city’s art scene the frisson that it long ...

Walter Scott faces a dilemma that has confronted many multi-disciplinary artists, especially those who work in both contemporary art and more mass-cultural fields: being recognized and celebrated ...

I saw Fratino’s work not only during my commute, but online and across social media, where it easily took up residence. Despite some later critical reservations of my own, it was nice and exciting to ...