Nixed Metaphors: Lee Ann Norman on Robert Gober
Norman addresses the contradictions and occlusions of Gober’s representations of sex and race.
Pictorial Baggage: Dennis Kardon on Robert Gober
Dennis Kardon unpacks the cultural contexts of Gober and his personal history.
Real Spaces and Illusions of Depth: Tomma Abts at David Zwirner
Asymmetry, illusion and odd numbers all add up in her latest exhibition
Looming Tower: Monika Sosnowska at Hauser & Wirth
The artist’s enormous installation at raises questions about how architecture relates to history.
Multiple Layers of Significance: Mike Kelley at LA MoCA
The final stage of a two year retrospective is a prodigious homecoming.
Mindy to Mork: Animated GIF as Cultural Relic
The Reaction GIF: Moving Image as Gesture at the Museum of the Moving Image
Sylvan Meditations: Joan Mitchell’s “Trees” and Tabla Rasa’s “Intimate Forest”
There’s magic in trees as two Summer shows reveal
“Amazingly Aware and Amazingly Abandoned”: Lucian Freud and Leigh Bowery
an exclusive extract from her new biography, Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open
What to Wear for a Martyrdom
What to Wear for a Martyrdom: Fashion tips for executioners from Late Quattrocento/Early Cinquecento Masters, North and South of the Alps. A lecture by David Cohen given at New York Studio School, April 1 2014 This lecture on April 1 was the first public airing of ideas in what is a new area of interest to … Continued