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Review of Scientia Sexualis

Scientia Sexualis, exhibition Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 5 October, 2024 – 2 March, 2025 : : We came as strangers and left as collaborators, friends, a couple, a pair. Such is one of the many…
By Maria Cecilia Azar & Hunter Scott

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New Frontiers for the Afronaut in Maisha Maene’s Mulika

Maisha Maene’s short film Mulika (2022) opens with slow-moving shots of a desolate landscape. Filmed on the slopes Mount Nyiragongo, a volcano in the North Kivu province of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and largely captured…
By Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra

Archiving Chimaera: An Interview with Lynn Book / Jay Buchanan

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…
By Jay Buchanan

​​On Editing / Dan Sinykin

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.…
By Dan Sinykin

On Attunement: Critics, Criticism, and the Classroom / Jessica Swoboda

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…
By Jessica Swoboda