Event Horizon: Sterling Ruby at the Rubell Family Collection
“In Mississippi it is difficult to achieve a vista.” –Barry Hannah “When the links of the signifying chains snap, then we have schizophrenia in the form of a rubble of distinct and unrelated signifiers.” That’s Fredric Jameson, outlining what he calls subjective schizophrenia, one of them postmodern maladies that we keep hearing about. His diagnosis...
Reviewed Elsewhere: Blake Rayne At Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club
As if there wasn’t enough art to buy at Art Basel Miami Beach, this year’s edition marked an unprecedented move into retail. While several artists teamed up with luxury brands for limited edition purses (Anselm Reyle with Dior, Liam Gillick with Pringle of Scotland), Blake Rayne’s understocked exhibition at this gallery, with its three variations...
Interview: Ruben Ochoa
There’s a pretty nice line in Trinie Dalton’s essay for the 2008 Whitney Biennial. “Increasingly Ochoa studies areas where nature buttress itself against annihilation, a cultural metaphor lending hope and vivacity to his work.” I’m specifically drawn to how you make concrete and steel look so fragile. Trinie wrote a really great piece. My work...
Candid Camera
I found this photograph stuffed into a fuel pump outside of Daytona Beach in August 2011.-Hunter Somewhere along the line, photographs of others moved from empathetic to pathetic. [Name] Publication’s fascinating new archive of found images, Artist Unknown – The Free World, illustrates the shift from analog to digital photography, and with that, a sneaking...
Jacob Dreyer: People Mountain People Ocean
People Mountain People Ocean Four Theses on the Development of the Chinese Population The current global political situation is one of radical instability, a far cry from “the end of history” predicted by some at the end of the cold war. Instead of tranquility and calm, the extension of capitalism over the entire planet...
