A conversation with the trans artist Emmett Ramstad explores how public bathrooms are contested spaces emblematic of how the United States functions.
Author Archives: Risa Puleo
Risa Puleo is a writer and curator who splits her time between New York, Texas, and Europe. Puleo attended Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies Program and also has a master's in art history from Hunter College. She writes for Bomb, Art in America, Modern Painters, Art Papers, Art21, Asia Art Pacific, and other publications.
Artist Collective Postcommodity on Recovering Knowledge and Making Border Metaphors
With work on view in three current exhibitions, the members of Postcommodity discuss their desire to “mediate complexity.”
The Messy Politics of Documenta’s Arrival in Athens
As documenta opens for the first time in Athens, Greek artists and anthropologists are closely observing how the German quinquennial will respond to its new location.
A Fanfare of Flags: Unwoven, Repurposed, Quilted, and Performed
‘State of the World’ unfolds a complex dialogue about the symbolic, physical, conceptual, and material nature of the flag.
When “Queer” Art Becomes Commonplace
In The Estrangement Principle, author Ariel Goldberg warns against the dangers of overusing the word “queer.”
The Linguistic Overlap of Color Theory and Racism
Tomashi Jackson found that the language Josef Albers used to describe color perception mirrored the language of racialized segregation.
Illustrating a Police Sergeant’s Interrogation of a Black Boy
A new collaborative comic illustrates a leaked transcript of a Minneapolis PD sergeant’s 1996 interrogation of a 14-year-old black child.
A Pair of Performances Exposes the Politics of How Museums Operate
The most conceptually compelling work of art in the Guggenheim’s But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa is also its least visible.