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The Order of Things: Hayv Kahraman Dissolves the Categories that Contain Us (Mother Tongue)
SELECTED ARTICLES & PROFILES
Hoping Art Can Strike a Balance on the U.S.-Mexico Border: In a biennial show this spring and summer between two museums on either side of the border, artists tell fresh stories about a contentious region (NYT, Special Sections)
Ancient Female Ballplayer Makes Public Debut: The statue will be part of “Ancient Huasteca Women: Goddesses, Warriors and Governors” at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago (NYT, Science Times)
Josh Kline is an Artist for the End of the World (T Magazine)
The Artists Depicting the Power and Strangeness of Breasts (T Magazine)
The Optimistic Art of Mary Mattingly (T Magazine)
How Should Art Reckon With Climate Change? (T Magazine)
LaToya Ruby Frazier, American Witness: A marriage of art and activism, the artist’s searing photographs reveal the human toll of economic injustice (T Magazine / print view)
Jane Goodall: The Turtle Conservancy Interview (The Tortoise)
The Artist Whose Medium Is Science: Tavares Strachan is known for his ambitious projects and intensive research, which have included expeditions to the North Pole and training as a cosmonaut in Russia (T Magazine / print view)
Homero’s Odyssey: The poet-activist Homero Aridjis is on a quest to save Mexico’s wildlife— his 40-year journey began with sea turtles (The Tortoise)
Memory Work: In the world of memorial museums, the approach to show and tell can take very different forms — with significant consequences (Colgate Research)
An Artist Whose Muse is Loneliness: Haegue Yang seeks isolation and then mines the accompanying confusion to reflect on the nature of belonging (T Magazine / print view)
Jordan Casteel Won’t Let You Look Away (New York Times)
Have We Finally Caught Up With Andrea Fraser? For over 30 years, the artist has waged a conceptual battle against the murky ethics of the art world. Now, finally, the larger culture is taking cues from her (T Magazine / print view)
What Happens when Site-Specific Art Outlasts Its Surroundings? (T Magazine / print view)
How Does a Museum Buy an Artwork That Doesn’t Physically Exist? (T Magazine / print view)
A New Crossroads in Moscow: Garage Museum Launches First Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art (ARTnews)
Specific Objectives: The Complex Task of Preserving Donald Judd’s Legacy (ARTnews)
The Best Intentions: Inside The Wild World of Benefit Auctions (ARTnews)
On Gonzalo Fonseca: “The Artist to Watch in 2016 Has Been Dead for 20 Years” (Vulture)
Kara Walker on the Domino Demolition: ‘It Makes Me Very Sad’ (The New York Observer)
King of Queens: Tom Finkelpearl’s Game-Changing Museum Gets Bigger (The New York Observer)
Domestic Art: Dealer Jose Martos Is Bringing It All Back Home (The New York Observer)
Wild, Wild West: Marianne Vitale’s ‘The Missing Book of Spurs Hits Performa (The New York Observer)
Sandwoman: Land Artist Agnes Denes Has a Plan for the Rockaways (The New York Observer)
Last of His Kind: The Pinta Island Tortoise Drops Out of Life and Goes Up on View at the Museum of Natural History (The New York Observer)
selected book Reviews
Jerry Saltz Plays it Uncharacteristically Safe (New York Times Book Review)
A History of Getting Hammered and Why Some of Us Should Keep Doing It (New York Times Book Review)
Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago (Bookforum)
From Nudes to the Nervous System, Studies of the Human Body (New York Times Book Review)
The Truth About Animals by Lucy Cooke (New York Times Book Review)
Frankenstein: The First Two Hundred Years by Christopher Frayling (New York Times Book Review)
selected exhibition Reviews
“Where the threads are worn” at Casey Kaplan (Artforum)
“Lost & Found” at Martos Gallery (Artforum)
“Everybody Dies!” at Carriage Trade (Artforum)
Carmen Winant at Fortnight Institute (Artforum,)
“The Circus Has Been Cancelled” at Harper’s Books (Artforum)
Ernst Yohji Jaeger at 15 Orient (Artforum)
Jana Euler at Artists Space (Artforum)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner at Neue Galerie (Artforum)
Andra Ursuta at Ramiken (Artforum)
Jason Rhoades at David Zwirner (Artforum)
Perla Krauze at the Chimney (Artforum)
Hayv Kahraman at Jack Shainman (Artforum)
Todd Gray at David Lewis Gallery (Artforum)
Verne Dawson at Eva Presenhuber + Gavin Brown’s Enterprise (Artforum)
Dana Schutz at Petzel Gallery (Artforum)
Sergej Jensen at Galerie Buchholz (Artforum)
Lisa Yuskavage “Babie Brood” and “New Paintings” at David Zwirner (Artforum)
“Make Believe” at Magenta Plains (Artforum)
Remedios Varo at Museo de Arte Moderno (Artforum)
Genieve Figgis at Half Gallery (Artforum)
“Painting Now and Forever: Part III” at Matthew Marks and Greene Naftali (Artforum)
Nathaniel Mary Quinn at Salon 94 (Artforum)
Ryan Foerster at C L E A R I N G (Artforum)
Math Bass at Mary Boone (Artforum)
Jamian Juliano-Villani at JTT (Artforum)
Christian Marclay at Paula Cooper (Artforum)
Rei Kawakubo / Comme des Garçons at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Artforum)
“The People’s Choice: One hundred years ago, the Russian revolution sent art history charging down a new track — but who now commemorates it? Three exhibitions in three cities reveal the art of a Soviet century, and the long journey from the Finland Station to Trump Tower,” (Even)
Svenja Deininger at Secession (Artforum)
Hilma af Klint at the Serpentine Gallery | Nasreen Mohamedi at the Met Breuer (Even / PDF)
Jeanette Mundt at Off Vendome (Artforum)
Sarah Charlesworth at the New Museum | Andreas Gursky at the Parrish Art Museum (Even)
