Long Reviews
New Platforms for Art in the Current Environment
We have entered a paradigm shift in socializing. Always prepared to adapt, the art world is trained for moments like this.
On the Other Side: Reflections on William Plummer’s Passages to my Ā pó: Transplanted Joss
The word “melt” suggests potential, a process triggered by a reaction. What triggers is numerous, but how do traditions, roles, definitions, entire notions of being and selfhood begin to melt away through our work?
Counterpublic : a Future-Visioned Triennial
Sitting in a church basement, on a restored pew, I was waiting for the second loop of Cauleen Smith’s film Soujourner (2018).
Beyond the Whiteness of Spaces: Finding Phenomenology, Race, and Queerness in Bricolaje
The sheet of paper starts white, offering a space for your marks. The white frame offers to encase your object, simply and cleanly.
Matter Matters: Dispatches From A Material World
As a long-time knitting hobbyist, I was excited to see the UMKC Gallery of Art hosting Matter Matters, a show curated by Davin Watne and featuring the work of Karolina Gnatowski, Dan Gunn, Noel Morical, and Alex Lockwood.
Staging Ground: A Forest for Artists
My first viewing of Staging Ground left me spellbound and stimulated. My husband and I had our toddler in tow, so it was destined to be a quick overview.
Meditation for Your Computer
Meditation for Computers was a meditation for our own cyborg minds. Donna Haraway famously wrote about the concept of being a cyborg; a hybrid of machine and organism .
I know this feeling. I was here before: On Basic Essentials
The first chain convenience store in the United States opened in Dallas, Texas in 1927 by the Southland Ice Company, which later became 7-Eleven.
Light and Dark, Sight and Sound: Janet Cardiff- 40 Part Motet Meets The Photographs of Dave Heath
Walking through the Nelson-Atkin’s contemporary wing, you could hear the gently building reverberation of Janet Cardiff’s 40-Part Motet. This sound piece and Multitude, Solitude: Photographs of Dave Heath were advertised as a joint exhibition, but the synergy of both shows became a happy accident
Intimate Strangers: A Response to Dawit L. Petros and Emmanuel Iduma’s conversation at H&R Block Artspace
At H&R Block Artspace, Dawit L. Petros’ The Stranger’s Notebook, brings a conversation that asks what it means to be a stranger to other people, places and archives.
Macro Essay: Kahlil Robert Irving Discusses Direct Driveby Kelley Walker at CAMSTL
Kahlil Robert Irving, a St. Louis-based artist, Kansas City Art Institute Art History and Ceramics alum (‘15), shares his response to the exhibition Direct Drive: Kelly Walker at The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (September 16 – December 23, 2016).
