David Mramor’s glamorous pathos is a precise and nuanced excavation of the layers inherent in the steady march of time — a journey, perhaps, toward a painterly manifestation of the punctum.
William J. Simmons
William J. Simmons is a graduate of Harvard University and a PhD candidate in art history at the City University of New York Graduate Center. His research focuses on queer theory and feminism in the history of photography. He is also a contributing editor for Big, Red, and Shiny, and his recent work has also appeared in Artforum, ArtSlant, the HAUNT Journal of Art, and the BBC. You can find him on Twitter.
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Repainting the Readymade
Marcel Duchamp’s original iteration of “Fountain” was lost shortly after its making. The first “Fountain” survives only as a photograph taken by Alfred Steiglitz in 1917, which was followed by a series of replicas.
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Evoking the Erotics of the Art Object
The title of Ezra Johnson’s solo exhibition at Freight + Volume, It’s Under the Thingy, is reminiscent of Amy Sillman’s flamboyant one lump or two at the ICA Boston and Bard’s Hessel Museum.