Hannah Wilke is part of an elastic history of bubble gum-as-art that started before her and continues to this day.
Essays
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“We’re Taking Up Space”: Salvadoran Women Artists Shape a New Identity
“And we’re brown, and Central American, and this is what’s up,” artist Liliana Castro explains.
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Jasper Johns: Hiding in Plain Sight
Johns has repeatedly used one motif whose source has never been identified.
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What Should We Call the Great Women Artists?
Imagine if Berthe Morisot had been known as Berthe Manet.
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Avedon’s Father, My Mother, and Processing Death
People say you should talk to the dying to reassure them, but words felt too pedestrian for this profound space of transition.
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Artworks as Portent and Balm
Two exhibitions by Patricia Satterlee have bookended the plague year.
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Art Heals: After a Sexual Assault, an Artist Paints Women Who Can’t Be Knocked Down
It took me years to find the language to tell this story.
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Painting “the Eternity of Time”
Tu Hongtao’s paintings revisit the traditions of Chinese painting while evading the perils of oversimplification and stagnation.
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Good Fictions: Remembering Peter Wollen
In the years leading up to Peter’s death, I would find myself on occasion writing down our dialogues, both past and present.
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Reynaldo Rivera’s Photographs of a Los Angeles That No Longer Exists
In the 1980s and ’90s, Rivera photographed drag performers in Latinx gay bars, house parties in pre-gentrified Echo Park, and performers like Sade, Vaginal Davis, and Chaka Khan.
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Andrew Cuomo Got an Emmy for Literally Just Showing Up
The New York governor receiving the Founders Award for his COVID-19 press briefings marks a new nadir in politics as style over actual results.
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The Bioweapons of Culture War
The hope now is not for this to end well, but simply for it to end.