Prior to Nour Bishouty’s first exhibition in Mexico, I had never encountered her work in person. Everything I had read about ...

Well over a century later, artist Alison Pebworth discovered this now long-forgotten disease and its ambiguous cures. She ...

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Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung is a writer based in Berlin, and founding editor of institutional critique platform Decolonial Hacker. He studied art history, gender studies and law at the University of Sydney, ...

Last November I spotted an unusually mundane poster at Printed Matter, the nonprofit bookseller that once served as the distribution arm of New York’s Conceptual art scene. The print, designed by ...

1. Writing is a way of loving. To love is to give life, continuity. This is a story about lives that were not meant to go on. But they did go on. Soon after artist Gabrielle Goliath was informed that ...

Margo Jefferson is the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for criticism. She has previously served as book and arts critic for Newsweek and the New York Times. Her writing has appeared in, among other ...

“I don’t ever want to live in one place again,” Paul Thek declares in a letter to Peter Hujar in 1968, “too many pretty places in the world.” Both Paul and Peter are deeply New York artists; that’s ...

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 ...

In Joyce Joumaa’s exhibition Prologue, music from the second, back gallery bled into the first: “اﻟﺑﺣر ﺑﻌﺷق اﻧﺎ – اﻟﺻﻐﯾرة ﻧﺟﺎة, I Love the Sea”(1979), a ballad sung by Nagat El Saghira. Small ...

Between 1973 and 1978, Lynn Hershman Leeson hired photographers to document the life of her alter ego, Roberta Breitmore. Dressed in a glossy blond wig, white blouse, and polka-dot skirt, Hershman ...

Shelly Mars has always been interested in what we should not talk about, and as a result, she has for the past forty years faced constant criticism and pushback. Nonetheless, the multifaceted ...