ART WRITING & CRITICISM

ART WRITING & CRITICISM

Sub-Scribed Screening
Kai Hatcher Kai Hatcher

Sub-Scribed Screening

On the 2024 Whitney Biennial Subscription Film Program and Nyala Moon’s Dilating for Maximum Results. The eighty-first installment of the longest running survey of American contemporary art. This year’s title is called Even Better Than The Real Thing, exploring themes of identity, autonomy and what qualifies as “real.”

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Come Sit! A lot of Rirkrit Tiravanjia
Kai Hatcher Kai Hatcher

Come Sit! A lot of Rirkrit Tiravanjia

Remarkably underwhelming, a room of just four metal folding chairs, a thrifty swan pot filled with the most plastic of red roses, and cardboard boxes lined with art catalogs is undeniably grasping at the aesthetics of a “caution: hot” café without directly building one. As with a lot of Rirkrit Tiravanija’s work in this expansive exhibition presented at MoMa PS1, A LOT OF PEOPLE gets at the delicate relationship between object and viewer to interrogate the extent to what we consider art and from whom we accept it.

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The Speculative Sky
Kai Hatcher Kai Hatcher

The Speculative Sky

On view at Galerie Lelong & Co. until October 21, 2023 is Tariku Shiferaw's Making Oneself in Dark Places. This exhibition explores notions of a speculative night sky if the contributions of diasporic culture were to be interwoven. Through paint and installation, Shiferaw implores visitors to consider their own cultural projections in cosmology and the positions we takes as viewers.

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The Art of the Retrospective
Kai Hatcher Kai Hatcher

The Art of the Retrospective

What are Museum Retrospectives? The retrospective is one of those famed genres of exhibition types that you might've just said "huh?" to as you walked past the entrance. Well, there is so much to what a retrospective means to the artist and what it means to the institution.

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The Crafted Debate of Textile Art
Kai Hatcher Kai Hatcher

The Crafted Debate of Textile Art

In Marquee Project's recent exhibition, Riding the Weave, textile artists confront where textiles lie as a medium akin to the traditionally regarded "fine arts." In an explosion of color and texture, Riding the Weave implored visitors to question their own conceptions on craft.

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