Writing About Art.

  • Female Forms: On Hannah Wilke

    "The scalloped pastel peach and pink folds of her labial latex sculptures, which flutter open suggestively on the gallery wall, are both funny and forbidding, carnal and industrial, vulnerable and tough, studded with metal snaps and push pins. Wilke wrote in a letter that they were meant to connote 'the loose arrangements of love, vulnerably exposed.'"

    -Jewish Currents

  • State of the Art: On 50 Years of Oakland's Creative Growth

    "At the heart of Creative Growth’s mission is a vision for art that is as simple as it is radical: that all people deserve the time, space, and resources to discover their creativity — and use it to express themselves to the fullest. In that way, this unique creative refuge represents a dream for us all."

    -Dossier

  • The Birthplace of Modernism: At Bauhaus Dessau

    "If cleanliness is next to godliness, Bauhaus really was a new faith. Its practitioners were among the first to develop what we now think of 'clean' design: spare, open, airy spaces; ample natural light; and simple, durable, monochromatic fittings and fixtures. This focus on hygiene and orderliness was partly a reaction to the rapid industrialization of late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which wrought clamor and chaos, darkness and disease. (Boon though it was, the advent of electricity didn't help; it simply revealed a world of dirt.)"

    -Departures

  • Ethan Hawke's Favorite Love Stories

    “The actor, director, writer, and producer has starred in some of the most enduring love stories on film. But he isn't one for saccharine rom-coms; in nearly all of his leading-man roles, Hawke has shown audiences the unvarnished truth about love — it's messy, it hurts, and still, it's worth it.”

    Departures

  • Dope on Film: Representation and the Opioid Crisis

    “The majority of images of the opioid crisis reproduce a dangerously flattened idea about who does drugs, where, how, and—most importantly—why they do them. Which means that, while more visible, the problem may not be more legible, more urgent, or more real-seeming. Without context, visibility in this case often feels more like voyeurism.”

    Full Stop

  • The Home of Avant-Garde Art Has a New Leader, Legacy Russell

    "The Kitchen seeks to give artists 'the opportunity to be uncharted,' in Russell's words, and to do so throughout their careers. Russell challenges the notion of an 'emerging' artist as a young individual just starting their career. 'I think artists emerge in multitudes over the course of their careers, she says, and The Kitchen wants to support these many phases of becoming.’"

    Departures

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