Evicted Utopias
Art, so often used by developers to mask the violence of displacement, can instead be used to resist gentrification
Print on Demand
As Palestinian history is erased, its archive becomes a nomadic war machine
Making Again, Making Against
The "failed" counterfeit challenges the secure core of value itself, making the legitimacy of the “true” object suspect.
The Soft Boys
Elizabeth Peyton’s painting uses the tropes of amateur fan art to tame the fluidity of queer desire
A Form of Faith
Memorial altars in Los Angeles offer resistance to the digital
Cartooning the Body
The rise of cartoon imagery in contemporary art mirrors the ways capitalism has made us all malleable
Capital Flows
The story of rap, art, and money doesn’t and can’t end with white people getting ahold of it
Bad News
With Bystander, Liz Magic Laser seems to tell us that news media is unreliable, irrelevant and preys on our emotions. But the intended audience for whom this might be startling is hard to imagine.
M and A
A scene performed in tandem with an algorithmic trading model created by a Blackstone group investment banker
The Whitney Biennial for Angry Women
Since 1932, the Whitney Biennial has been a crib sheet for the market trends of contemporary art in the United States. These are the Cliffs Notes to the guide
Hungry for Love
With art that hopes to go too far, who gets to ask for forgiveness instead of permission?
Tracing Ana
How artist Ana Mendieta is unremembered
Eminent Domain
The .art generic top-level domain threatens to undermine the gallery system — if curators don't get it first
A Cute Idea
Ryan Trecartin's films defamiliarize contemporary culture without casting explicit judgment
The Thief
The appropriation art of Chad Wys
Personal Ads
In an online milieu where everyone markets themselves, net artists have made selling out its own medium