This June, I visited the Monuments exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles with trepidation. The collection presented monuments that had been deposed in the so-called racial reckoning of 2020 following the police murders of…
“The First Novel Written by AI is Here,” an article proclaimed in 2018. The author doubted AI tools could ever write a good novel but nevertheless conceded that one “might just see fragments of meaning thrown into a neural network…
1: The Giantess When I first saw her in 2023, I had a job that paid me to tell stories about animals and an apartment in Berlin I rarely left. Most days I was squirreled under…
The 61st Venice Biennale, “In Minor Keys,” cites One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez as one of its inspirations—the story of Macondo, the town where the novel unfolds. A fragment that never made…
By Alt Går Bra (Branko Boero Imwinkelried and Agnes Nedregård)
In the 1990s and early 2000s, Aaron Cobbett’s analog camera immortalized queer nightlife in Manhattan’s East Village through fabulous photo shoots that both rivaled contemporary fashion editorials and rejected the fashion world’s unattainable beauty ideals. Most…
The title of Jana Euler’s new work, on view now through summer 2028 as Schultze Project #5 at Museum Ludwig in Cologne, recalls the discourse around 1960s minimalism and Michael Fried’s famous concern with the coming…
Gene Swenson: What happened to you in the 1960s?Paul Thek: I was beaten to death. Paul Thek’s legacy is undergoing a major revival, with recent exhibitions at Pace Gallery and Galerie Buchholz, a dual biography of…
The first time I call the Dial-A-Poem Hong Kong hotline, I hear Leung Ping-Kwan’s “The Thunderbolt and the Cicada Song.” This initial experience of Dial-A-Poem is mediated by the limits of my Cantonese proficiency. I understand some individual lines,…
Myka Tucker-Abramson’s sharp and compelling Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony takes the road novel as a “generic product of US hegemony” (3) and as a vehicle for mapping processes of capitalist modernization…
