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Natalie Haddad

Natalie Haddad is an editor at Hyperallergic and art writer. She received her PhD in Art History, Theory and Criticism at the University of California San Diego. Her research focuses on World War I and Weimar-era German art. She has written extensively on modern and contemporary art and has contributed essays to various art publications and exhibition catalogues.

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Can Commodities Really Critique Commodity Culture?

Avatar photo by Natalie Haddad October 24, 2022October 25, 2022

Given a platform to say something — about first-world capitalism, its attendant environmental destruction, or the definition of the self through objects — why not use it?

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The Happily Haunted Cinema of Guy Maddin

Avatar photo by Natalie Haddad October 14, 2022October 30, 2022

The twilight state between dreaming and waking that permeates a restoration of Maddin’s Tales from the Gimli Hospital echoes that of life and death in his films.

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Lynda Benglis Basks in the Light of Her Art

Avatar photo by Natalie Haddad June 23, 2022June 23, 2022

In Benglis’s latest works, the forces of gravity that defined her seminal poured latex and polyurethane pieces are traded for luminous bronzes.

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Reveling in the Ruins of the Past

Avatar photo by Natalie Haddad May 5, 2022May 6, 2022

In attempting to convey atrocities that confound language, artist Phyllida Barlow comes up against a paradox with no easy resolution.

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The Prescient Politics of a Seminal Conceptual Photographer

Avatar photo by Natalie Haddad April 5, 2022April 6, 2022

Nearly a decade after his death in 2013, Phel Steinmetz’s attention to the effects of capitalism on the environment can be recognized as both political and prescient.

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The Cerebral Art of Wrestling

Avatar photo by Natalie Haddad October 21, 2021October 21, 2021

Wrestling is less a physical act than a psychological space in Mark Yang’s paintings.

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The Politics of Desire and Oppression in Anita Steckel’s Art

Avatar photo by Natalie Haddad October 13, 2021October 20, 2021

Steckel compelled audiences to acknowledge uncomfortable realities about systemic sexism that persist decades later.

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Jon Pylypchuk’s Chorus of Loss

Avatar photo by Natalie Haddad July 31, 2021July 30, 2021

Pylypchuk’s art has always been deeply engaged with the most painful parts of life, those that human beings tend to push aside or deny in order to get by.

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Paulina Peavy, the Spiritualist Artist Who Channeled a UFO

Avatar photo by Natalie Haddad July 14, 2021July 15, 2021

Through her encounters with the spirit Lacamo, Peavy developed a cosmology based on 12,000-year cycles of evolution.

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Rosemary Mayer’s Art of the Unseen

Avatar photo by Natalie Haddad June 19, 2021June 17, 2021

For Mayer, the passage of time is imbued with a sense of melancholy, of something already lost to the past.

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Fred Eversley’s Joyful Light

Avatar photo by Natalie Haddad May 1, 2021April 30, 2021

Eversley’s parabolic sculptures draw us into a self-aware and ever-shifting encounter with space and perceptual phenomena.

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Henrik Olesen’s Formless, Transgressive Bodies

Avatar photo by Natalie Haddad April 24, 2021April 23, 2021

For much of his career, Olesen has confronted both psychological and physical violence, perpetrated by power structures against non-normative bodies.

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