Eva Díaz
Katherine Wolkoff
Sasha Wolf Gallery
June 2013
The prevailing metaphor of photography is that of the hunt. Photographers shoot, even stalk, their subjects; in the case of Katherine Wolkoff’s work, the absence of “prey” itself becomes the subject of the project. Wandering the fields… READ ON
PICKS
Rico Gatson
June 2013
The five paintings in Rico Gatson’s series “Watts,” 2011, on view in this show, are adapted from aerial photographs of the Watts rebellion of 1965, in Los Angeles, and address the still raw and unresolved nature of the injustices that… READ ON
IN PRINT Summer 2013 [TOC]
Trevor Paglen
April 2013
THE END OF SPACE AGE: So proclaims the cover of a recent issue of The Economist, which Trevor Paglen has photographed and blown up to movie-poster size. If ever there was a moment to reassess the utopian drive to exceed the envelope of Earth,… READ ON
IN PRINT April 2013 [TOC]
Claudia Joskowicz
February 2013
Feuding with one’s neighbor will undoubtedly pressurize the already delicate politics of apartment life. Now imagine the amplified tensions that would arise if that neighbor were former Nazi Klaus Barbie, the so-called Butcher of Lyon, who… READ ON
IN PRINT February 2013 [TOC]
Goshka Macuga
January 2013
If Poland—“God’s playground,” in historian Norman Davies’s pithy phrase—didn’t invent black comedy, it has surely produced some of the wryest examples of tragic-absurd performance throughout its fraught post–World War II period.… READ ON
IN PRINT January 2013 [TOC]
Rey Akdogan
December 2012
Who didn’t move to the Big City for the nightlife? Or at least the idea that it’s there for you if you want it? Well, prepare to be happy: Rey Akdogan’s show “night curtain” was open to the public from dusk to midnight. Accordingly,… READ ON
IN PRINT December 2012 [TOC]
Paul Pfeiffer
November 2012
To Johan Huizinga, author of the classic 1938 study Homo Ludens, it is the healthy, energetic civilization that is able to constantly engender new forms of play, whereas in decadent societies, highly organized systems of recreation and … READ ON
IN PRINT November 2012 [TOC]
Christian Jankowski
October 2012
As a metaphor for art criticism, “message in a bottle” is, at best, rather anomic. Is that what we as writers do: just chuck it out there and pray some random reader halfway around the world stumbles on the entreaty of our otherwise lonely… READ ON
IN PRINT October 2012 [TOC]
“Notations: The Cage Effect Today”
June 2012
No study of composer John Cage’s legacy would be complete without acknowledging his own influences and frequent collaborations. In the case of visual-art practices, his work with Robert Rauschenberg looms largest. Indeed, in Hunter College’s… READ ON
IN PRINT Summer 2012 [TOC]
Per-Oskar Leu
May 2012
If the history of the twentieth-century could be distilled to just a few key episodes, one of them might be Bertolt Brecht’s appearance before a US House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) panel in 1947. Speaking with great deliberation… READ ON