Gervais Marsh. Dr. Gervais Marsh is a writer, curator, and scholar based in New York City, whose practice meditates on ...

For sixteen minutes and thirty-three seconds, I watched Deborah-Joyce Holman’s film Close-Up (2024), relinquishing anticipation for what may happen next and settling into an ease of the ordinary scene ...

What do you see when you look at pictures of President Trump’s cabinet?” asks writer David French in an interactive web ...

Pacita Abad, the Filipina artist who roamed the world like a traveling bard, was twenty-four when she left home in 1970. By the time she died at fifty-eight, she had gone on more adventures than the ...

Dawit L. Petros: I’ve always understood the need to balance the production or the study of visual cultural materials with textual and written materials. With the understanding that an object (like a ...

Yoshio Taniguchi’s 2004 expansion of the Museum of Modern Art integrated the glass buildings on either side of the museum so that when you are sitting towards 54th street, in the Cullman offices, in ...

No one likes being called an amateur, a dilettante, a dabbler. “Unprofessional” is an easy insult. The professional always makes the right moves, knows the right thing to say, the right name to check.

Decolonization involves destruction and upheaval, but in equal measures is a process of creation—a radical world-building that imparts not only a political but cultural and ecological heritage. This ...

In Matthew Wong’s oil painting See You On the Other Side (2019), a figure in blue stands at the edge of a frozen landscape and gazes out at a house beside a mountain. A red bird hovers just off shore, ...

Every five or six years, the painter Margaux Williamson quits painting. In these moments, she thinks she might not go back. But something always comes shuddering darkly up – an instinct, a distant ...

On August 29, 2023, the Globe and Mail published an article headlined “Toronto’s cash-strapped Artscape to enter receivership, end management of 14 artist facilities.” ...