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Drawing Surrealism
Reviewed by Danielle McCullough “The exquisite corpse shall drink the new wine” The exquisite – corpse— shall drink— the young— wine “Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau” Le...
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the Matsaba Project for the Abu Dhabi UAE
Review by A. Moret When I was five years old my parents packed a picnic lunch, loaded my sister and I in the backseat of our white Jeep Cherokee and drove an eternal drive 60 miles north, away from...
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It Is Almost That: A collection of Image + Text Work by Women Artists & Writers
Reviewed by Lisa Anne Auerbach Ladies love language; cunning linguists we are, batting phrases around, pummeling sentences into submission, wantonly winding words. Visual artists identifying as women...
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Barney Kulok – Building
Reviewed by Lucas Blalock Barney Kulok’s new collection of pictures is not, as one might think, about architecture (here, Franklin D. Roosevelt Park on Roosevelt Island in NYC), nor is it about the...
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“3,4,5″“&8”
Reviewed by Akina Cox In 1977, NASA attached to the Voyager space shuttle a golden record. with Assembled by a team led by Carl Sagan, the record collected music, pictures, and sounds, a message from...
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Another Self
Reviewed by Zach Kleyn In the World But Not Of the World You can and you can’t – You shall and you shan’t – You will and you won’t – And you will be damned if you do – And you will be damned if you...
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Proper Names
Reviewed by Sarah Williams Begging to be read out loud, like a roll call. Michael Ned Holte’s Proper Nouns is forty fillless pages of names, one listed after the other. Corky McCoy Yves Tanguy Tycho...
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Sniper
Reviewed by Samantha Roth A Piece of Fiction As I read Christopher Russell’s Sniper, “a sort of Novel”, I repeatedly believed that I had grasped the best description. A cheetos fueled marathon session...
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The New Normal
Reviewed by Joe Biel One of the key moments for me in reading and looking through the catalog for the exhibition The New Normal, occurs toward the back of the book, at the beginning of the last essay,...
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Vera Lutter
Reviewed by John Houck Grade school wasn’t the most engaging experience. Toward the tail of each school day, I stared intently at the clock, elbows bent, back crooked. My utter fixation on that...
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The Factory of Forms
Reviewed by Anthony Leslie “A yellow canary in a dark anthracite / grey coal mine / A transparent cat in a black box with / poison gas” In Elena Bajo’s artist’s book The Factory of Forms, the paradox...
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The Assistants
Reviewed by Samantha Roth Assisting and Resisting The Assistants is an attractive, almost-small-enough-for-your-back-pocket publication. It has the papery weight of a Zagat’s Restaurant guide, with...
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What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation
Reviewed by Katie Bachler The Social Turn, Relational Aesthetics, Site Specificity and Locational Identity, Participation Affect, effect, being, feeling, now. A school, a loaf of bread, homes for...
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You Owe Me A Feeling
Reviewed by Travis Diehl Fried & Rich (DRUGGY RICH GUY’S LAMENT) When confronted by the voice of God from a burning bush, the agnostic hunts for the speaker, while the atheist breaks out the...
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What Art Is
Reviewed by Ed Schad I think Arthur Danto is right. This is dangerous to say, because Danto is so often oversimplified and his views are often turned into hollow clichés. “That’s the end of art guy,...
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Amazon Solitaire
Reviewed by Jen Hutton Fifteen-year-old girl, you are a survivor! Womanhood—likely the first and last time you will hear this word—is already upon you. Your body heaves through the last stages of...
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Silence
Reviewed by Lauren Mackler When you think about it, Waiting is a kind of Silence… In 2001, I was 19. I took a class in Art Theory and one Tuesday morning we watched Not For Sale: Feminist Art in...
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This book owns no one This book owes no one
Review by Mieke Marple Coupling her poetic verse with iPhone photos and screenshots from dating websites, Benedetto plots an emotionally complex crescendo vérité in This book owns no one This book owes...
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Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective
Reviewed by David Gilbert It seems insulting to write only a few paragraphs about a painting that took eight years to make. So, at first, I wanted to write about Jay DeFeo and not even mention The...
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The Art of Walking
Reviewed by Sarah Bay Williams Most neighborhoods around the outer parts of Philadelphia where I grew up had some sort of “forest” to walk through nestled between the blocks of houses. These woody...
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