Found (on Facebook) Poetry

Andrew Horwitz On a related and intriguing side note to my essay on Cultural Production, etc. My trustee research assistant told me that a dancer friend of his moved to nyc 7 years ago and ...

Performance at the Beginning of the 21st Century

By Aaron Mattocks Download a copy of this essay “On that glittery globe called the art world, performance is an impoverished country, generally unsupported by prestigious museums and rich collectors.” So wrote Cynthia Carr in ...

Face in a Crowd

By Siobhan Burke There were no program notes to go with Elad Lassry’s performance at The Kitchen last weekend. Nothing identifying the ten elite ballet dancers—four from American Ballet Theatre, six currently or formerly with ...

Time in Portland

By Robert Tyree For 10 days each of the last 10 Septembers, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Time-Based Arts Festival has run rampant in a city often peripheral to considerations of contemporary performance. TBA’s ...

Reprint: BAD ART & OBJECTHOOD

I asked David Levine (our September artist) if I could publish this essay, which he wrote for  Art/US (no. 13, June, 2006). He responded: Let’s just stress that it was written in 2006, at a ...

I went to Tino Sehgal’s show & all I got was this lousy photo

Reprint: Paul Chan & Claudia La Rocco, “The Interview”

Well, I finally made it to Documenta. Good lord this sucker is big. I’m almost sort of scratching the surface of the surface. With a very frazzled toothpick. One of my favorite things so far ...