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Selected Writing

Selected Writing

Lenz Geerk’s Theaters of the Mind

“It’s not hard to imagine that catastrophe is imminent. What do you do when the world ends? You bake, you dance, you sing, you make art.”

BOMB 2025

Yto Barrada's Rules of the Game

Yto Barrada’s Rules of the Game

A public artwork in the form of a playgroud, Barrada’s Le Grand Soir comments on postcolonial architecture and experimental pedagogy.

The Nation 2025

Jane Dickson's Sublime in Traffic

Jane Dickson’s Sublime in Traffic

Her paintings of Southern California streets are undoubtedly landscapes, even if they contain few hallmarks of the genre.

The Brooklyn Rail 2024

Interview with Lawrence Abu Hamdan

Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Sonic Investigations

“A careful analysis of extreme acoustic experiences teaches us how listening can operate more generally as a collective tool for political action.”

The Brooklyn Rail 2023

An Atlas of Invisible Images

An Atlas of Invisible Images

As computer vision and AI increasingly influence everyday life, a cohort of artists reveals the hidden images that secretly govern these systems.

Social Research 2023

Adam Curtis’s Theory of Everything

The idiosyncratic director’s worldview is so complex, dense and theoretical that the prospect of real change appears nearly impossible.

Dissent 2021

2025

Nov 03
Interview

In Conversation with Lenz Geerk

“It’s not hard to imagine that catastrophe is imminent. What do you do when the world ends? You bake, you dance, you sing, you make art.”

Apr 23
Profile

On Soft Network

The nonprofit dedicated to artists’ estates provides resources to support a vital yet overlooked component of art history. With Travis Diehl, Marko Gluhaich, Jane Ursula Harris, Terence Trouillot.

Spring
Catalogue

On Yuri Yuan

Her virtuosic paintings deftly explore the tension between artistry and performance anxiety—the various ways we reveal our creativity even as we conceal ourselves from sight.

Alexander Berggruen

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