Comics
MAGA Is Coming for the Arts!
Trump-approved Venice Biennale proposals, perspectives from artists who endured authoritarianism, and more in The Siren’s third edition.
Pablo Helguera
Comics
The Sanest Response to Insane Times
MAGA is coming for our rights. The Siren is here to fight back.
Art
Artists Decolonize the History of the Americas at the Vincent Price Art Museum
A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas features works by 18 contemporary artists and collectives from the US and Latin America, plus a selection of works by Native American artists from the museum's permanent collection
Art
The Pursuit of Art, 2013
Memories fade. That’s the one good reason, as far as I can see, to compile an end-of-year list. It’s sometimes startling to retrace what attracted my attention over the course of a year; it is also instructive to determine where such a miscellany of shows fits in with ongoing areas of interest, and
Art
Spinning Tales: The Many Pages of Pablo Helguera
On paper, the Mexican artist Pablo Helguera may fit the mold of a neoconceptualist with a social agenda, but the more I see of his work, the more he resembles some kind of latter-day mystic, conjuring up improbable connections and unsettling dislocations.
Art
From Lynch to the Lynchian and the Dreams in Between
Hypnotherapy, a group show at Kent Fine Art, gives David Lynch fans a chance to revisit the iconic filmmaker’s alarming artwork a year after his solo turn at Jack Tilton. But that's only one, conspicuous though it is, of its strengths. What really matters is the opportunity to experience a museum-qu
Books
Manufactured Dreams — Stepping Inside Televisa
The Aperture Foundation publishes beautiful photography monographs that are designed to look more like a portfolio than a book; such is their emphasis on image plates over explanatory text. The Factory of Dreams: Inside Televisa Studios, one of Aperture’s recent publications featuring the Brooklyn-b
Opinion
Everything Is an Art Fair … Redux
First, it was blogs [http://hyperallergic.com/17238/everything-is-an-art-fair/], now our bathrooms. I'm guessing Helguera was thinking about The Dependent art fair when he sketched this one. 16 Miles of String has a few good shots of the bathroom installations [http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/depende