From June 1942 until its dissolution in 1945, the Office of War Information (OWI) generated public support for World War II, ...

In the end, it almost seems like it was always meant to be this way. Khaled Sabsabi sat quietly beside his friend Michael ...

In the spring of 2013, I made the first of many visits to the Brooklyn studio of Juan Sánchez, to begin research on a monograph about his work. Back then, Sánchez inhabited a cacophonous space between ...

So many books have been written on the art and music of New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s that one imagines the texts on the much-romanticized period, stacked end to end, could reach the ...

Prior to Nour Bishouty’s first exhibition in Mexico, I had never encountered her work in person. Everything I had read about her practice led me to expect an investigation of archives and documentary ...

Last November I spotted an unusually mundane poster at Printed Matter, the nonprofit bookseller that once served as the distribution arm of New York’s Conceptual art scene. The print, designed by ...

It’s an understatement to say that Michael Asher was a site-specific artist. His work quietly—but insistently—demands attention to the contexts in which he made it: gallery architecture and ...

“I don’t ever want to live in one place again,” Paul Thek declares in a letter to Peter Hujar in 1968, “too many pretty places in the world.” Both Paul and Peter are deeply New York artists; that’s ...

What remains after writing—after the body that held the pen is gone? Carmen Neely’s remains (2026) hung alone on a white wall at Mariane Ibrahim Gallery in the Cuauhtémoc neighborhood of Mexico City.

1. Writing is a way of loving. To love is to give life, continuity. This is a story about lives that were not meant to go on. But they did go on. Soon after artist Gabrielle Goliath was informed that ...

Contemporary histories of Los Angeles seem to come in two main forms. The first, as exemplified by the indispensable work of the writer Mike Davis, deals with the existential problem of the city ...

Between 1973 and 1978, Lynn Hershman Leeson hired photographers to document the life of her alter ego, Roberta Breitmore. Dressed in a glossy blond wig, white blouse, and polka-dot skirt, Hershman ...