Behind the paywall (for now), here is the @nplusonemag editors on the new, staggering era of war imagery inaugurated by Israel's genocide on Gaza, from AI-illustrated hasbara to Palestinians begging for their lives on IG to IDF war-crime TikTok: nplusonemag.com/issue-47/the…
"I’m still alive. Gaza is no longer Gaza."
A diary of three weeks in Gaza by Atef Abu Saif, who has been minister of culture for the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank since 2019: wapo.st/46OqJpq
Yesterday I resigned as a senior editor of Artforum.com. The firing of David Velasco violates everything I had cherished about the magazine and makes my work there untenable. I’m devastated by this outcome and will deeply miss my talented colleagues and contributors.
I’ve resigned as senior editor of Artforum dot com. David Velasco’s firing is unacceptable and bodes ominously for the future of the magazine. I’m sad it’s come to this but deeply grateful for the extraordinary writers, artists & colleagues I’ve worked with over the past 6 years.
This week, the editors revisit Leo Steinberg’s 1971 “Picasso: Drawing as If to Possess” in the hope that the essay, with its careful attention to the imbrication of form, sexuality, and visual mastery, will enrich ongoing debates over Picasso’s legacy. artforum.com/print/197108/pi…
“Here is the funny fate of the historic European avant-garde, caught somewhere between devaluation and deference, at once a liability and a lure.”
The Artforum review of Hannah Gadsby’s “Pablo-matic”—by the redoubtable Joseph Henry—is in: artforum.com/slant/the-unful…
Robert Smithson died 50 years ago today so I’ll reshare my review of his first biography, which is bewildering but kind of brilliant (Smithson would’ve hated it). artforum.com/books/resurrect…
in @Artforum my review of Onyeka Igwe’s “A Repertoire of Protest (No Dance, No Palaver)” @MoMAPS1
3 stunning videos dancing with the 1929 Aba Women’s War • anti-colonial resistance • challenging archival visual control • choreographies of liberation
artforum.com/film/onyeka-igw…
Comedic performer Dynasty Handbag’s “Titanic Depression,” like the unfolding Titan fiasco, enacts a psychoanalytic insight: that the Real can never be retrieved but rather must be traumatically repeated.
artforum.com/performance/dyn…