The mirrored closet doors are part of a collection of architectural salvage. Once obtained, they sit in an already stuffed-full house in upstate New York. During the COVID-19 pandemic their new owner, Antonette Berger, began suffering…
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…
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),…
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…
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…
During my visit to Jana Sterbak’s retrospective on opening night, I did not immediately recognize the famed “meat dress,” Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic (1987). The flank steak from which the piece was stitched…
2025 Annual Exhibition, The Campus341 NY-217, Claverack, NYJune 28 — October 26, 2025 A soft light washes along the old school corridor. The air feels slightly cool, carrying the faint scent of tile and paint. It is…
Jina B. Kim’s Care at the End of the World (Duke, 2025) radicalizes what we think of as infrastructure in an increasingly-precarious contemporary landscape, one defined by racialized abandonment, isolation, and apocalyptic devastations. Infrastructures, in anthropologist…
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…
