Everything is Fucked.

Everything is fucked. We’re all so busy burning the land and boiling the sea that the new Mad Max movie looks less like an escapist fantasy and more like a preview of what the world’s going to look like in a generation or two. The huge populations of the...
Kochi Biennale Connects Cosmopolitan with Cosmic

Kochi Biennale Connects Cosmopolitan with Cosmic

  Flying away from wintry Chicago in early February to be embraced by Kerala’s tropical night air is sensory jailbreak. And the heat gets hotter as soon as the sun rises. Kerala has a long history of foreign arrivals, of cosmopolitan culture. For millennia...
Art and the 2015 UK General Election

Art and the 2015 UK General Election

Something is happening in UK politics and conviction is giving way to self-expression. The Labour Party has drifted so far to the centre that tribal supporters are at least free to vote with their hearts. And if they live in Surrey Heath (Southern England) or Hackney...
Top 5 Weekend Picks!

Top 5 Weekend Picks!

1. 10:00 am Monday Impressions; 11:00 am How the Outside Leaks into the Room; 12:00 ­pm Smells Like 100 Years Old; 1:00 pm The Room Is in My Eye. The Space under My Body; 2:00 pm In the Meantime, (This Place Will Be Empty after 5:00 pm); 3:00 pm An Actual Location for...
Orchard/Dirge, Observations on Fraser Taylor’s Null Space

Orchard/Dirge, Observations on Fraser Taylor’s Null Space

Guest post by Vanessa Gravenor   Fraser Taylor’s show Orchard/Dirge, on view at Threewalls gallery in Chicago, combines sculptures that suggest states of kinesthesis with drawings and paintings blackened to abject states. When entering the main room, one sees a...