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Features

Changing Cityscapes and the Romance of Bureaucracy: An Interview with Maha Maamoun
Liste
CARA Leads with an Open Heart
Blessings and Transmutations: An Interview with Fox Maxy
EIR 2023
Rosalind Nashashibi’s Bachelor Machines
EIR 2023Liste
Words met by a Rustling of Fibers: Quinn Latimer in conversation with Laura McLean-Ferris
EIR 2022
Time, Tabled: Ghislaine Leung’s Constitutional Critique
EIR 2022
Tatiana Kronberg Talks Process, Performance, and Perseverance
Decay is Everywhere: Precious Okoyomon in Conversation with Elvia Wilk
EIR 2022
Lynn Hershman Leeson in Venice: Logic Paralyzes the Heart
Donetsk Through the Museum, the Monument, and the Diary
EIR 2022
Nicole-Antonia Spagnola: Anti-Genesis
EIR 2022
Why It’s Taking So Long
EIR 2021
Sick Woman Theory
EIR 2021
Chimeric Icons: An Interview with Astrit Ismaili
EIR 2021
Tending the Cracks and Shifts: On Loops of Infinite Reception
EIR 2021
noting the body in motion
EIR 2021
Get Wet and Messy at The (Virtual) Table: Brittany Shepherd in Conversation
The God of Every Day
EIR 2021
Music is a Vehicle for Perceiving (Or, a Foundation for Artful Intervention)
EIR 2021
Emotional Mercenaries
EIR 2021
Re Modeling
EIR 2021
The Year Ahead
EIR 2021
Camille Henrot: On Climate Grief, Soft Labor, and “Mother Tongue”
Kiyan Williams on forging your own path, community, and “Notes on Digging”
ADD SHOT: Whitney Claflin at Bodega
Carmen Winant Talks The Womyn’s Lands Project of the ’70s and ’80s, Eros Magazine, and Her Most Recent Exhibition “Togethering” in Brooklyn with Jessica Caroline
Silicone Valley: Cajsa von Zeipel in Conversation
A Glitch in the System: Legacy Russell and Lynn Hershman Leeson in Conversation about “Glitch Feminism”
Safety Corp’s Redeem Pettaway on New Futures Post-COVID-19
Ebecho Muslimova: TRAPS!
Gretchen Bender: Stepping into the Particle Universe
Dese Escobar: More in the Morning
On Radicality, and Closing the 2019 Whitney Biennial
Juliana Huxtable’s Interfertility Industrial Complex: Snatch the Calf Back and the Pursuit of Desire
Aria Dean on Conceptual One Liners and Her Least Personal Show Yet
Considering Gender in the Age of AICAN, the Unhuman Artist
Decolonizing Time as Healing
Reba Maybury’s Art Subverts the Patriarchy by Making Men Work for Her
Young New Yorkers, Art as Restorative Justice
CONNEK is Redefining What it Means to be Queer and Carribean
“Seasonal Associate,” The Human Cost of Amazon
Emilie Gossiaux’s “After Image” at False Flag
Lena Henke at Kunsthalle Zürich
A Synthesis of Intuitions: Adrian Piper at MoMA
Tau Lewis’s “Secret Objects”
Trap Door, on the Contradictions of Trans Visibility
Harvesting Anti-Bodies with Lynn Hershman Leeson
Jackie Wang on “Carceral Capitalism”
Ser Brandon-Castro Serpas on Hoarding, Daydreams, and Chaos
Looks Just Like You: Sondra Perry at Bridget Donahue
I Need Help: Hannah Black & Precious Okoyomon @ Real Fine Arts
Venus X on Planet X
Avena Gallagher, Covertly Styling Your Cultural Experience
Lena Henke, “Don’t shout at me, Warrior!” at Schirn Kunsthalle
Femme Black Sci-Fi and Unapologetic Softness
Biba Bell + Jessie Gold’s Post-Industrial-Rave Dance in Detroit
Juliana Huxtable on Crisis, Conspiracy, and Collapse
Liberation for Likes
Fear, Punishment, and Boredom: Whitney Claflin at RFA
Jenna Wortham on Technology, Self-Care, and Black Futures
Accessibility in the Age of Technology @ Open Score
“Dreamlands” at the Whitney Hums with Conceptual Fiction
Lillian Schwartz: Pioneer of Computer Art
NEO-BODIES Breaks Down Prescriptive Notions of Coding Our External World
Meanwhile in Atlanta, a Biennial is Reimagined
(Im)possible Baby Case 01: TWO MOMS
Ridin’ High with Nancy Davidson
Lynne Tillman Says Bye to Reason and Hi to Everything
Kimberly Drew in Conversation
Nancy Lupo: Parent and Parroting
Lena Henke: Heartbreak Highway
Do You Know the Works of Sara Hornbacher?
Your Personal Comfort Zone
Female Genius: Carmen Herrera
Female Genius: Mickalene Thomas
Female Genius: Kaari Upson
Female Genius: Avery K Singer
Female Genius: Lena Henke
Female Genius: Sahra Motalebi
Female Genius: Diane Simpson
Simulating Feeling: Xavier Cha On Feedback
Martine Syms: Vertical Elevated Oblique
Genesis P-Orridge Talks with Whitney Vangrin about the History of Performance Art
NOT SURPRISED…
Fuccbois, Beta Bros, Softboys, Man-Children
Select All: Toward a Xenofeminist Future
FlucT Model Home
Amalia Ulman: Gentle Deception
Digi-Feminism
VAPORS
Conflict (Process): Alisa Baremboym