Kate Sutton
Grete Stern
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Malba)
June 2013
In 1948, a year after Eva Perón’s efforts helped secure Argentinian women the right to vote, Idilio magazine was campaigning for their right to dream. For a column titled “El psicoanálisis le ayudará” (Psychoanalysis Will Help You),… READ ON
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Affirmative Action
Urs Fischer’s “Yes” at the Deste Foundation on Hydra
June 2013 ATHENS
THE ROAD TO ATHENS is lined with empty billboards. One after another, endless and contentless, in various stages of abandon. Small irony that each is topped with a small placard, presumably the name of the parent company: REMEDY. When you … READ ON
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Jonas Staal
June 2013
Barclays Capital’s Skyscraper Index—an annual report that traces the curious correlation between contenders for the title of “world’s tallest building” and fluctuations in the Dow Jones—holds that when markets go down, skyscrapers… READ ON
IN PRINT Summer 2013 [TOC]
Encyclopedic Knowledge
The opening of the 55th Venice Biennale
May 2013 VENICE
EVEN BEFORE THE FIRST BELLINIS could be served, this year’s Venice Biennale kicked off with a hangover. The S.S. Hangover, to be precise—a repurposed Icelandic sailing ship loaded with chamber musicians, the latest in Ragnar Kjartansson’s… READ ON
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The Last Unicorn
The 22nd edition of arteBA
May 2013 BUENOS AIRES
“ALAN’S TRULY MAGICAL, like this unicorn cowboy dressed all in white. You’ll love him!” a friend babbled over brunch last Sunday, a day before I left for Buenos Aires to visit the Faena Arts Center. My first actual glimpse of the … READ ON
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Mary Beth Edelson
The Suzanne Geiss Company
March 2013
Mary Beth Edelson’s 1972 collage Some Living American Women Artists features—as its title suggests—a coterie of female artists cut and pasted over the sallow faces of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper. Georgia O’Keeffe presides at … READ ON
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People of Means
The 7th Art Dubai
March 2013 DUBAI
“THIS IS STRAIGHT out of Inception, right?” Mari Spirito mused last Monday on the staircase of the Salsali Private Museum. She meant the city as a whole; Dubai, having exhausted our capacity to imagine, had left us fumbling for cinematic… READ ON
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Hollywood Ending
Art and Hollywood during Academy Awards week
March 2013 LOS ANGELES
“IT’S DEFINITELY SURREAL,” photographer Todd Eberle admitted at Dom Pérignon’s luncheon for Marina Abramović last Friday at the Chateau Marmont. “All of a sudden you’re in a room with everyone you just saw on the screen. It’s… READ ON
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Erdem Taşdelen
Galeri Non
February 2013
The 1981 manual How to Photograph People defines the “semi-aware” subject as one who understands that he or she may be photographed, but never knows at which precise instant. (Think of a performer on stage or an athlete mid-competition.)… READ ON
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Edgar Arceneaux
February 2013
“I told Jesus, it would be all right, if he changed my name . . .” The soul singer’s voice trembles through the opening notes before swooping confidently down into the lower registers, as she tests out her conviction in varying intonation.… READ ON