“It is the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, that gets the worst grade for gender and race discrimination.” – Maura Reilly, 2018 Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions, 1965-2016 is a mindblowing exhibition for many reasons. As I’ve mentioned … Continue reading artist-philosopher hybrid

The female nude in Western painting was there to feed an appetite of male sexual desire. She existed to be looked at, posed in such a way that her body was displayed to the eye of the viewer     … Continue reading the freakin’ gaze

Unlike colonization, the coloniality of gender is still with us; it is what lies at the intersection of gender and class and race as central constructs of the capitalist world system of power.    – María Lugones Art history is … Continue reading exuberance of radical women

Some artists maintain “the artist as inexplicable genius” act that stems from the 19th century in an annoying way. Playing the freedom of creativity card for any ridiculous object, gesture or splashes of paint, because eh “artist.” Others are certainly peculiar, … Continue reading hey yay hodgepodge

Pursuing beauty in contemporary art feels off limits. A pretty picture is something that comes with the frame bought in a home decor store. But an artist can use pretty pictures and incorporate it into something else to tell a … Continue reading pretty pictures

Art can range from super straightforward to very enigmatic. Sometimes, visiting an art gallery, I can have the euphoric feeling that I’m really getting what the artist is aiming at or sometimes I can relate to it on a personal level and I feel like there is room for my interpretation. Other times, not so much. Continue reading the enigmatic

Zoe Leonard (born 1961 in Liberty, NY) is having her first large-scale museum overview in the States. Ever. Her installations, photographs, sculptures, from the 80s to 2018, it’s all there. Her works, although always accessible for interpretation, range from abstract thought-provoking to more … Continue reading observing and activism

What would be the absolute bare minimum regarding materiality to be still called an artwork? Is a dematerialization of the artwork possible? The curator, art critic, and activist Lucy Lippard was the first to give an account of the dematerialization … Continue reading dematerialization of art

Is there an artistic movement going at this moment? Mapping out artistic movements (what and who influenced what and whom) has always been a practice of looking back at art history and situating artists amongst each other and picking overarching … Continue reading dystopian moving image

Yay, this marks my first blog from the N.Y.C. My first choice museum to visit was the New Museum to hit their Triennial. I also ended up going to Nathaniel Mellors Progressive Rocks. It. Was. Absurd. So weird, however, not too eccentric to … Continue reading 21st century fabulist