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Walking Into the Matrix on Park Avenue
A Ryoji Ikeda poster at the Armory (all photos by author)Entering Japanese artist/composer Ryoji Ikeda’s new installation “the transfinite,” which is currently showing at the Park Avenue Armory, feels...
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Required Reading
GO-Globe.com's infographic that shows what happens online in 60 seconds. I wonder how much art is made or posted in that same period? (via Laughing Squid)This week’s Required Reading has Serra at the...
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What Is the Labor of Art Writing? (Part 1)
OWS Arts & Labor’s panel discussion with New York art writers at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe (all images via OWS Arts & Labor’s Facebook page)Last Thursday night at Housing Works Bookstore...
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What Is the Labor of Art Writing? (Part 2)
An audience member asks a question at OWS Arts & Labor’s round-table discussion on art writing. (all images via OWS Arts & Labor’s Facebook page)Editor’s note: Read part 1, a recap of the the...
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Critical Problems: The New York Times, Race, and Gender
Portrait of Ken Johnson by Phong Bui (Image via Brooklyn Rail)Is it just me, or has art writing hit a little bit of a rough patch lately? Sociologist and erstwhile art writer Sarah Thornton announced...
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Are We Post–Black Art?
The panel at the Brooklyn Museum (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)There are so many fault lines between art and politics, navigating them can feel dizzying and often futile. Conversations about...
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On Ken Johnson and the Question of Sexism
Installation view, ‘Michelle Grabner’ at James Cohan Gallery (image via jamescohan.com) Two weeks ago, when critic Ken Johnson reviewed Michelle Grabner’s current solo exhibition in the New York Times,...
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Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
AUTHOR’S NOTE: It has been a year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. As Steve Greene intimates below, such a world-changing event might retroactively alter how we...
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