Will
Fenstermaker

Will
Fenstermaker

ARCHIVE: All SELECTED 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 BEYOND

Selected Writing

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

Tetsuya Ishida’s Fetishes of the Alienated

Ishida’s blend of surrealist satire and social realism explores the mechanophilia at the heart of modern alienation.

Frieze 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

A Tribute to Peter Schjeldahl

Schjeldahl was not a peddler of a particular theory; his only agenda was pleasure—the pleasures of art, of looking, of language.

Frieze 2022

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

Adam Curtis’s Theory of Everything

The idiosyncratic director paints a picture of the world that is so dense and theoretical that the prospect of real change appears nearly impossible.

Dissent 2021

2024

Aug 29

On Magdalena Suarez Frimkess

In electic sculptures and vessels, the artist melds coarsely painted flashpoints from her life with pop-culture motifs to form dizzying, zoetropic narratives.

Jul 17

On ‘The Curse’

The series is the latest entry, and among the smartest, in a recent succession of satires about the worlds of art and luxury.

May 15
Interview

In Conversation 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.”

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