Art
Julian Kreimer: A Place to Call Home
Julian Kreimer is a “painter’s painter.” No, I take that back. He’s a “photographer’s painter.”
Essays
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On Hearing a White Man Co-opt the Body of Michael Brown
On a Friday evening, my partner and I wander into an auditorium at Brown University and find ourselves five minutes into what is apparently Kenneth Goldsmith’s poem “The Body of Michael Brown.”
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How We Got Here: Portrait of the Artist as a Queer Feminist
As long as I can remember, I’ve organized and been involved in artist groups and collectives.
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Why Be Ugly When U Can Be Beautiful?
A tribute to artist Mark Aguhar, a genderqueer pioneer.
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Crying for Ana Mendieta at the Carl Andre Retrospective
I didn’t think I would be able to cry on command.
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Looking for the Incredible in a Simple Moment
Ninety-nine years after the first home was built in Berthoud, Colorado, a 39-year-old photographer walked the streets of this small town at night.
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Failure as Success in Painting: Bram van Velde, the Invisible (Part 2)
The postwar art scene in Paris was dominated on one side by a disproportionate humanist optimism bent on reconnecting with the great French tradition of Cubism and Fauvism, as if nothing had happened in between.
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Failure as Success in Painting: Bram van Velde, the Invisible (Part 1)
Last summer, at the opening of his exhibition at the David Zwirner Gallery, the painter James Bishop mentioned in passing his strong interest in Bram van Velde’s work.
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In Search of the Post-Internet at Art Rotterdam
ROTTERDAM — Whether you like it or not, Karen Archey and Robin Peckham’s 2014 exhibition and catalogue Art Post-Internet solidified the term “post-internet art” in our vocabulary.
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Jeff Koons: Shiny on the Outside, Hollow on the Inside, Part 2
I wrote most of the first two sections of this essay (Part 1) in March 2011, but never submitted it anywhere. I think I lost interest in the subject. I thought I wrote it well before the negative critiques would surely come rolling in, even before Koons’s retrospective at the Whitney in 2014.
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Jeff Koons: Shiny on the Outside, Hollow on the Inside, Part 1
Shiny on the outside, hollow on the inside. That is how the work of the American artist, Jeff Koons, has been generally described and received, not only by those who are less than affectionate toward it but also by those who like it.
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From the Deep South, an Overlooked Chapter in Art History
ATLANTA — Is Bill Arnett enjoying the last laugh?