Watching Dead Ringers—Alice Birch’s 2023 mini-series adaptation of David Cronenberg’s 1988 film of the same name—was triggering for my anxious brain, inducing intense nightmares. In Cronenberg’s film version, Beverly and Elliot Mantle are twin gynecologists (portrayed…
Lynn Book, Lit (2014–22). Color photographic triptych. 84.1 ✕ 118.9cm (33.11 ✕ 46.81 in). Lit was created for Book’s multimedia exhibition, Instructions for Deranging, by invitation for the 20th anniversary of Art Stays Festival of Contemporary…
Photo by Brandi Redd. No one knows what editing is, not even editors. There are few courses on the topic, and only a couple of useful, if scattershot, handbooks. Knowledge is usually passed along through apprenticeship.…
Rembrandt, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, 1659. Howard Belsey—the pretentious, arrogant, narcissistic professor in Zadie Smith’s On Beauty—loves to interrogate artworks. “What we’re trying to . . . interrogate here,” Howard remarks at the start of his seventeenth-century…
For the philosopher Frédéric Neyrat, existence begins with a motion towards the outside, theorized as the “trans-ject” instead of the subject. Forthcoming in English from Fordham University Press, Neyrat’s book Atopias: Manifesto for a Radical…
Photo of Mecija family in their first apartment in Canada. June 1978. Courtesy of Francisco and Emma Mecija. My parents migrated from the Philippines to Canada in the mid-1970s. My sisters and I were raised in…
Photo by sarah assi. Meditation has taught me what’s at stake in the exchange of breath. Exchange: derived from the Latin prefix “ex”—out, utterly; and “change” from the Latin cambire, or barter. Breathing is a type…
Installation view of no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria at the Whitney Museum of American Art. From left to right: works by Miguel Luciano; Garvin Sierra Viega; Danielle De Jesus. Photograph by Marcos…
