The Art World In a new series featuring security-camera stills of suspected shoplifters, the photographer seems more interested in the surface than in the soul. 'Edge Control edvc,' 2023. For the series, Lawson shot a number of 'walls of shame' in beauty-... See more
As happy as I am that Frieze Masters has put together its new section Queering Modernism: Visual Languages of the 20th Century , I wonder if the title is a little redundant. Isn't modernism, the best of it, always queer? The great modernists, ranging from... See more
Love isn't a word, or a concept, that one usually associates with Marcel Duchamp, the modernist master of irony and distance, but love—love of the mind and what it can do, love of bodies and play, love of freedom, love of what art can be, love of women,... See more
The Weight of the Self: On James Merrill’s A Different Person Hilton Als Considers the Influence of Class and Queerness in the Life and Work of a Gay American Poet A number of the people I first shared my love of James Merrill’s writing with are gone now,... See more
