Many international biennales have come to replace the single artistic director with a curatorial collective, ostensibly to ...

Pallavi Surana is a writer and curator based in New York City. Many international biennales have come to replace the single ...

Madeleine Seidel is a curator, writer, and editor based in Brooklyn, NY, and Atlanta, GA. Her work concerns filmmaking, time-based media, and performance, paying particular attention to artists based ...

Pat Oleszko may be funny, but she isn’t joking. For nearly sixty years, Oleszko—a performance artist and sculptor who describes herself as an ...

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 ...

Yoshio Taniguchi’s 2004 expansion of the Museum of Modern Art integrated the glass buildings on either side of the museum so that when you are sitting towards 54th street, in the Cullman offices, in ...

Amy Sillman is a highly regarded painter, writer, and curator based in New York. One might regard her as a consummate insider. The artist has a solo exhibition at Gladstone Gallery this May but hails ...

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 ...

The sound of breathing permeated the space. It was unsettling not only because this encounter happened in the middle of a pandemic in which a functioning lung meant survival, but also because ...

During the reign of Benito Mussolini, an enormous carved relief of the dictator’s head loomed over the streets of Rome, his downcast gaze surveilling the Italian public night and day. The oversize, ...

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 ...

With arms crossed, a Métis curator contemplates Kent Monkman’s The Scream (2017) at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. The history painting dramatizes Canada’s seizure of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis ...