Interview

Interview

Two Transgender Artists on the Importance of Queering Home

Rahne Alexander and Jaimes Mayhew's installation at the Baltimore Museum of Art invites viewers to connect their own domestic lives to those of LGBTQ people.

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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."

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Beer with a Painter: Peter Acheson

Acheson does not care about trading niceties or being ingratiating. He would rather propose and debate philosophical ideas.

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Artists Pick Artists: Mario Mentrup

In his works, which are all performative to varying degrees, Mentrup tests our psychological limits.

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“It Feels Sacrificial”: An Artist Repeatedly Imprints Her Body on Paper

Keltie Ferris discusses her exhibition M\A\R\C\H at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, for which she covered herself in oil and pigment and lay on top of large sheets of paper.

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The Possibilities and Failures of the Racial Imagination

Three writers consider the controversy surrounding Dana Schutz’s painting of Emmett Till and the Whitney Museum’s public response to it.

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Not Settled: An Interview with Adam Zagajewski

Zagajewski consistently writes with lightness, wit, and a dry sense of irony that never shades into cynicism or self-satisfaction.

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Going Crazy in New York and San Francisco: An Interview with Poet Julien Poirier

Reading these and the other poems that make up Out of Print what struck me was less the ostensive morbidity of Poirier’s images than the searing honesty underlying them.

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An Artist’s Comprehensive History of Southeast Asian Photography

Zhuang Wubin provides a solid framework for critically exploring the region's varied histories and notable practitioners of an oft-unsung medium.

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How Experimental Rock Band Xiu Xiu Keeps Evolving, 15 Years On

Jamie Stewart, the frontman and only continuous member of Xiu Xiu, discusses the band's refusal to fall prey to nostalgia or resort to deliberate button-pushing.

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Beer with a Painter: Albert Oehlen

The long-reigning bad boy of German painting has consistently poked and prodded at whatever preciousness we associate with the medium.

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World’s Largest Street Art Museum Takes Shape in Amsterdam

Curator Peter Ernst Coolen discusses his plans for a street art museum in a former shipbuilding warehouse in north Amsterdam.