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Selected Writing

Selected Writing

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

Four Centuries of Digital Art

LACMA’s survey gives cursory treatment to the most pressing concerns—AI, misinformation, surveillance—of digital art today.

Dear Dave 2025

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 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

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

2025

Apr 23
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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

On Self-Portraiture

Featuring original photographs by Clara Cullen, Arthur Elgort, Buck Ellison, Camila Falquez, Viviane Sassen and Richie Shazam.

Mar 06
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On Yto Barrada

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

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