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.
An Embodied Encounter With queer abstraction
It is difficult to make value judgments on works of queer abstraction; in fact, it is antithetical to do so. Instead, I offer an entanglement of sensory observations and visual/textual relationalities for readers to dis- and re-entangle as they see fit.
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).
