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Janice Guy and Margaret Murray opened Murray Guy Gallery in 1998 on 17th Street near 10th Avenue in Chelsea. The gallery, highly regarded for its intellectual rigor, represents an international roster of  artists who work …

One of the things that surprises me to no end, and this is an operation of power, is that people feel unable to just go do something else. My ever-ready “plan B” is to move …

In early February 2015, I met with UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive adjunct curator Constance Lewallen and assistant curator Stephanie Cannizzo in the now-closed galleries (BAM/PFA is preparing for its move to …

Following World War II, the Red Menace mentality held a death grip over U.S. foreign policy. In the 1950s it fomented U.S.-backed clandestine coups, by the ‘60s covert and not-so-covert interventionism, and by the ‘80s …

White Ladies of the Canyon In February, Joni Mitchell told New York Magazine that she has an affinity for black men. In fact, she went on, she really understands what it’s like to be a …

In February, the artist Sarah Meyohas invented her own currency called “BitchCoin,” which she presented in collaboration with Where Gallery in Brooklyn, as part of their current exhibition Where 6: Prediction. The currency is used …

It is not pleasant to contemplate the thoughts that must be passing through the mind of the Owl of Minerva as the dusk falls and she undertakes the task of interpreting the era of human …

At first sight, the city is nowhere as inebriating as the neighboring Dubai, with its maximalist now-iconic skyline, particularly sugarcoated for the Art Week and concomitant Art Dubai, the city’s glamorous fair with branded Maseratis …

Much of Internet culture uncritically frolics in an ecology greatly affected by the unique opportunities and affordances of the Internet and the web while ignoring the boundaries and limitations that come with it. Many artists …

When NSA documents released by Edward Snowden first went public, one extremely pointed and particular angle of outrage came not from privacy activists but from designers. Horrified more by the seemingly arbitrary typography choices and …

By the time any of you are reading this, I will have already given my eulogy for Richard Berger, and only time will tell if it accorded with what I am writing here. Richard passed …

To encounter ambitious contemporary art, you must also encounter the world of the international curator, the most prominent member of the global art world. He’s there at the gala preview, she’s up at the lectern …