Madeleine Seidel is a curator, writer, and editor based in Brooklyn, NY, and Atlanta, GA. Her work concerns filmmaking, time-based media, and performance, paying particular attention to artists based ...

Pat Oleszko may be funny, but she isn’t joking. For nearly sixty years, Oleszko—a performance artist and sculptor who describes herself as an ...

Daoist tradition teaches that at the time of death, souls journey to their next dimension by taking flight on cranes. Regarded as symbols ...

Donasia Tillery. Donasia Tillery is a writer, editor, and poet based in New York. Her work explores the intersections of race, gender, structural trauma, and spirituality, and has ...

Aaron Morse’s tall heavens evoke Georgia O’Keeffe’s painting Sky Above Clouds IV (1965); the big-sky country of the American West; and the empyrean orange, yellow, and black wrought by wildfires and ...

Coco Fusco’s breakout came three decades ago at a high watermark of debates over identity politics and multiculturalism, movements she has assiduously critiqued ever since. Now in a political climate ...

Launched in 1995, SITE International Biennial was the first biennial for contemporary art in the United States. Over the course of its eleven editions, the organization has primarily focused on ...

I got lost several times on my way to Casa Susanna, the exhibition I had set out to write about. It was a sticky Friday night in July—“date night” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as the Met ...

Recently, I’ve been enjoying art that disappears. Art that combusts, implodes, melts, burns; that’s what I’m after. Google Gustav Metzger’s singed, barely-there canvases, for example, which he burned ...

For the past weeks, I’ve kept a new monograph on the artist Emily Mason on my glass coffee table, observing the sea of its yellow cover reflect and shimmer. It’s not a rigid object but a source of ...

During the reign of Benito Mussolini, an enormous carved relief of the dictator’s head loomed over the streets of Rome, his downcast gaze surveilling the Italian public night and day. The oversize, ...

I first saw Martin Wong’s prison paintings when I visited a two-person exhibition of Wong and the contemporary painter Aaron Gilbert at PPOW Gallery in 2021. Five of them were included in the show. I ...