Franziska Lentzsch: The non-objecthood of video art is especially correct for older videos. Most of the videos produced in recent years are produced in an edition of a limited number—particularly due to the ease of duplication. But we have never really considered alternatives, as we are not allowed to. We always buy our videos, and […]

Summer Guthery: The idea for Analogous Logic was born over a beer with Douglas Paulson at Monkeytown. He described an early version of the porn txxxt, that txxxt that ended up being included in the exhibition. He had been added to one of the email lists that lead to an inbox full of porn spam. […]

In a gesture famous in the art establishment, Agnes Martin fled New York in 1967 for a sequestered existence in New Mexico, becoming a recluse at the height of her fame. Lee Bontecou took a leave of absence that lasted several decades; she later said, “I needed a rest.” More explicit was Lee Lozano’s 1969 […]

I’ve been calling myself an artist for about 30 years, so maybe it’s natural that my creative narrative has gotten lengthy and convoluted. I paint as well as sculpt and, in my case, any description of the relationship between those two practices gets awfully tangled. So in thinking about less unwieldy subjects to write about, […]

Yasmil Raymond: Perhaps it is a question of saturation rather than opposites, the choices in this case seem to express a shared distaste for rigid frames of ideological ghettos or the spectacle of gruesome violence. Many of the works included in this exhibition focus on issues of political pertinence such as war (Yael Bartana, Walid […]

Cynthia Leung: Your 2006 show Please Lie Down and Take a Nap With Me in My Grave was all color photographs, eerie because of their content: landscapes both beautiful and mundane. They read like experiments in nature photography or thoughts on suburban nature. On one hand you had dark images swimming pools, kitchen lights, and […]

Spanish painter Nacho Murillo, who recently held a show at Broadway Gallery and is currently  completing a residency in Beijing, highlights the act of drinking coffee is as just that: action repeated (complacently) ad infinitum. This is shown in the body of work wherein he made many, many, many paintings of…. You guessed it, the […]

On the ferry ride across the Long Island Sound, I stared at the shoreline of Shelter Island and understood why the artist David Rankin took up a studio here. The island itself is situated between the North and South Forks of Long Island, with no bridge to the mainland. One ten-minute boat ride is the […]

Richard Flood: When we were discussing our opening exhibition, we very much wanted to allow the building’s architecture to be visible. It quickly led us to a discussion of contemporary sculpture. We talked about those artists whose contributions were most visible in current practice, and we kicked around the notion of a contemporary zeitgeist; for […]

Lyra Kilston: Performa 05 was a great success. I saw how very small your staff was and the short amount of time you had in which to create a citywide biennial from the ground up—it was incredible. Besides introducing many different audiences to performance and greatly expanding people’s notions of what performance could be, the […]