Michael Bell-Smith
Most people consume vastly more data than they're capable of digesting nowadays. Personal and public communications, collections and archives increasingly exist in digital, rather than physical, forms…
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Sarah Valdez
Act Up New York
In its first incarnation, at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, “ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993” served to educate a new generation of st…
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Barbara Kruger
Throughout her career, Barbara Kruger has famously magnified the nefarious in the quotidian, addressing sexism, consumerism, alienation and abuses of power. Her recent project, The Globe Shrinks…
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Mark Gonzales
When Mark Gonzales—affectionately known to his myriad fans as “Gonz”—landed the cover of Thrasher magazine in 1984 at the age of 15 for his daredevil, playful brand of street skateboarding, neither…
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Mustafa Maluka
Born (in 1976) and raised in Cape Town, Mustafa Maluka has also lived in Amsterdam and Berlin, and currently divides his time between Helsinki and New York. His geographically and culturally multifari…
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My Barbarian
“He’s in. What’s next?” “Looking down at your hands and seeing monsters.” So goes a nonsensical exchange in the video The Night Epi$ode Pilot: Purgatorial Curatorial between artists Malik Gaines, play…
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Genesis Breyer P-orridge
There’s no end to the number of artists, writers and musicians inspired by the cut-up method of creation. But in collages and in life, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge has taken the mash-up genre in a distinc…
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The Girl Effect
Simultaneously playful and politically engaged, “The Girl Effect”—a survey of work by seven international women artists—included mostly video work but also a board game and an installation. The show t…
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The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women
It’s odd to call an exhibition with excellent examples of contemporary and historical female artists’ work a failure. But the work in it failed to accomplish its goal, which is anyway dated to say the…
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Naked Truths
For centuries, iconic female nudes were produced by male painters like Titian, Rubens, and Rembrandt. Now a new generation of women is transforming them to reflect their own sensibilities.
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