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ARCHIVE: All SELECTED 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 BEYOND

Selected Writing

Jane Dickson’s Sublime in Traffic

Her paintings on Astroturf evoke manicured lawns fizzling with static energy as they examine how cars paved over the American dream.

The Brooklyn Rail 2024

Interview with Hayv Kahraman

“In my previous works, the figures return the gaze, and they find agency in that. Here, there’s no returning of the gaze. It’s protected.”

BOMB 2024

A Folk History of Climate Collapse

Made on plastic that he salvages from city beaches, Duke Riley’s scrimshaw critiques the colonialist nostalgia at the heart of American empire.

IAAC 2024

Interview with Lawrence Abu Hamdan

“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

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

The Gods of Gala Porras-Kim

The artist’s probing installations reframe the seemingly intractable tensions between curating, colonialism and cultural exchange.

The Nation 2022

2024

Dec 11

On the Sustainability of Art Criticism

What will culture look like in a society where art is made superfluous by an increasingly urgent demand to monetize the mundane enterprise of our lives?

The Brooklyn Rail

Nov 26

On Vicky Colombet

Simultaneously meditative and unmooring, Colombet’s abstract earth scenes jostle and churn with breathtaking tectonic force.

Oct 23

On Jane Dickson

Her paintings of traffic on Astroturf evoke manicured lawns fizzling with static energy as they examine how cars paved over the American dream.

The Brooklyn Rail

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