When I work, I accumulate a great deal of material,” artist Mary Ellen Carroll once remarked, “and I need some way of ...

The final episode of season 9 features a live recording from Momus’s To Build and Sustain Publishing Roundtable, held at PHI ...

1. Writing is a way of loving. To love is to give life, continuity. This is a story about lives that were not meant to go on. But they did go on. Soon after artist Gabrielle Goliath was informed that ...

Last November I spotted an unusually mundane poster at Printed Matter, the nonprofit bookseller that once served as the distribution arm of New York’s Conceptual art scene. The print, designed by ...

Joshua Segun-Lean is a writer and researcher. His writing engages contemporary issues across visual and literary culture, Black studies, gender, spatiality, and politics. With a background in ...

What remains after writing—after the body that held the pen is gone? Carmen Neely’s remains (2026) hung alone on a white wall at Mariane Ibrahim Gallery in the Cuauhtémoc neighborhood of Mexico City.

So many books have been written on the art and music of New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s that one imagines the texts on the much-romanticized period, stacked end to end, could reach the ...

Contemporary histories of Los Angeles seem to come in two main forms. The first, as exemplified by the indispensable work of the writer Mike Davis, deals with the existential problem of the city ...

The German American artist Eva Hesse kept meticulous diaries throughout the late sixties and seventies that account for both her personal and professional anxieties, her creative process and ...

Staging a major retrospective of Edmund Alleyn as a flagship summer show is a bold move on the part of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Alleyn, who was born in Quebec City in 1931, and died ...

I got lost several times on my way to Casa Susanna, the exhibition I had set out to write about. It was a sticky Friday night in July—“date night” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as the Met ...

The best way to fuck something up is to give it a body. A voice is killed when it is given a body. Whenever there’s a body around you see its faults. Theory proves that. —Mike Kelley, Dialogue #1 (An ...