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Review of Caroline Hovanec’s Notes on Vermin
By Julia Laurel Mueller
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Uncanny Juxtaposition / Digestive Organs: Community Spaces as Sites of Artistic Metabolism — From Inner Feast’s psychological banquet to Group Lick’s sculptural residues
By shuang cai
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Uncanny Juxtaposition / Birds of a Feather: Leonora Carrington: Dream Weaver, Rose Art Museum / Isola by Allegra Goodman
By Kristen Lauritzen
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Dismantling the Shields of the Contemporary Art World: Review of Eunsong Kim’s The Politics of Collecting
By Laura Elizabeth Vrana
From the Archives:
Hauntings
Edited by Emmy Waldman & David Hering
Algorithms and the Occult
Edited by Tamara Kneese, Jeffrey Moro & Briana Vecchione
Manifesting Africanfuturism
Edited by Damilare Bello & Tolulope Oke
Capitalist Realism at 15
Edited by Robin Blyn & Maria Bose
Fast Extinction, Slow Art: On Work by Henry Ossawa Tanner and Neil Welliver
Attending carefully to a work of art can shape our care for the world; slowing down to observe is itself an intervention in the rapidly deteriorating environments wrought by a system whose mantra is speed and…
By Helena Feder
Smooth Parataxis and Polyvalent Montage: John Ashbery’s Poetics in Nathaniel Dorsky’s Avant-Garde Filmmaking
Spring with its promise of winter….And it is December again,the snow outside. Or is it June full of sun — John Ashbery, “The Skaters” : : Nathaniel Dorsky’s silent, 45-minute avant-garde film, Hours for Jerome (1982),…
By Grace Hayes & Brendan Nagle
A Conversation with Artist Maria Gaspar on Radioactive: Stories from Beyond the Wall
This conversation with the artist Maria Gaspar centers thinking about the relationship between art and protest, visual offerings, and an abolitionist aesthetics of possibility. We speak about avenues of liberation that emerge when we broadcast the…
By Itzel Corona Aguilar
Ecological Relationality in La marcha del liquen
Tania Ximena’s (Mexico b. 1985) La marcha del liquen (The Stride of Lichen, 2024) is a 29-minute experimental short that quietly unsettles our assumptions about distance, time, and environmental crisis. Shot in Yokot’an and Spanish, with Spanish…
By Amanda Macedo Macedo
Review of Caroline Hovanec’s Notes on Vermin
Caroline Hovanec’s Notes on Vermin is a book of subtle thought, explored through an exhilarating range of literary and visual sources, interspersed with down-to-earth personal anecdotes. The argument is an unraveling, an “unbinding” of what Hovanec…
By Julia Laurel Mueller
Uncanny Juxtaposition / Digestive Organs: Community Spaces as Sites of Artistic Metabolism — From Inner Feast’s psychological banquet to Group Lick’s sculptural residues
Two recent exhibitions in New York, Inner Feast (Accent Sister, August 2025) and Group Lick (Tutu Gallery, April–June 2025), use food and appetite, digestion and consumption as their conceptual ground. Yet they engage with the topic…
By shuang cai
Uncanny Juxtaposition / Birds of a Feather: Leonora Carrington: Dream Weaver, Rose Art Museum / Isola by Allegra Goodman
On January 22, 2025, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University opened its entryway gallery to reveal the fantastical works of Anglo-Irish-Mexican artist Leonora Carrington. In doing so, the Rose became the first institution in New…
By Kristen Lauritzen
Dismantling the Shields of the Contemporary Art World: Review of Eunsong Kim’s The Politics of Collecting
Museums lie at the center of much media coverage and popular debate in America today, the subject of controversy provoked by Trump’s insistence on rewriting history by influencing the curatorial direction of Washington cultural institutions. In…
By Laura Elizabeth Vrana