Articles
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“Heat of a Hand”
The Blinkers exhibition text introduced a subtly studious setting: “accelerating the appearance of things only touched upon by the lens with the heat of your hand,” Carlo Mollino, Message from the Darkroom. This exhibition was visually and audibly compelling.
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Everything is Relevant: Writings on Art and Life, 1991–2018 by Ken Lum
At the forefront of Ken Lum’s book Everything is Relevant are questions of art’s necessity. Written over 28 years, the questions start with introspection and move outward and backwards.
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Bertrand Carrière
Co-published in 2020 by Éditions Plein Sud and the Galerie d’art Antoine-Sirois de l’Université de Sherbrooke, the 301-page publication covers Carrière’s life work thus far, from his first street photographs, taken in the early 1970s, to his latest large-scale documentary series.
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Paul P.
“Each countenance is selected from the multitudes of young men implicated in the then-outlaw publications because they appear to possess the look and feel of art,” Paul P. wrote in the exhibition text for his recent exhibition, “Gamboling Green,” at Cooper Cole in Toronto.
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Damien Moppett
“Damian Moppett: Vignettes” is the 51-year-old Vancouver artist’s first exhibition devoted to figurative painting and the first to contain images taken from the history of modernist photography. In his words, the dozen paintings here are “defiantly a new body of work coming out of a newish way of working.”
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Bruce Nauman @ Tate Modern
Simply titled “Bruce Nauman,” this show presents a broad survey of the artist’s five-decades-long career and emphasizes its multidisciplinarity as well as his loyalty to high modernist themes. Included are a large number of his neon pieces, as well as sound and video/installation works, while the remainder exist heterogeneously.
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Through the Eyes of Another: Black and Visible
How many ways to say—and how many voices to call—systemic racism; to say unyielding white supremacy; to say invisibility that goes unremarked; to say denial of personhood?
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The Painter’s Language and the Language of Painting
Amy Sillman, the New York-based artist, has been writing reviews, essays and other kinds of criticism for 15 years, but she has only now brought out her first book.
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History Maker
If Stan Douglas weren’t a filmmaker, video artist and photographer, he’d be a writer. He thinks like a writer. When he talks about his projects and bodies of work, how they come into being and how they develop, it is like listening to a novelist outlining a plot, setting a scene or describing a character. He provides a narrative frame in which stories and characters present and configure themselves, often in complicated situations.
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Cinema Like the Music
Arthur Jafa’s unparalleled seven-and-a-half-minute-long video opens and closes with two kinds of Black hero.
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Pressure on Verbal Matter
Dionne Brand’s The Blue Clerk, 2018, subtitled an Ars Poetica in 59 Versos, has two characters, the author and the clerk. Their interaction is an inventory of complex disagreements and antagonisms.
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The Unstoppable Paintings of Philip Guston
On the June weekend that “Philip Guston Now” was scheduled to open at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, thousands of people were in the streets protesting the killing of George Floyd. The words BLACK LIVES MATTER had been boldly painted onto 16th Street, one block from the White House where a nasty, racist president sat fuming.
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