Cynthia Leung: Your 2006 show Please Lie Down and Take a Nap With Me in My Grave was all color photographs, eerie because of their content: landscapes both beautiful and mundane. They read like experiments in nature photography or thoughts on suburban nature. On one hand you had dark images swimming pools, kitchen lights, and […]

Spanish painter Nacho Murillo, who recently held a show at Broadway Gallery and is currently  completing a residency in Beijing, highlights the act of drinking coffee is as just that: action repeated (complacently) ad infinitum. This is shown in the body of work wherein he made many, many, many paintings of…. You guessed it, the […]

On the ferry ride across the Long Island Sound, I stared at the shoreline of Shelter Island and understood why the artist David Rankin took up a studio here. The island itself is situated between the North and South Forks of Long Island, with no bridge to the mainland. One ten-minute boat ride is the […]

Richard Flood: When we were discussing our opening exhibition, we very much wanted to allow the building’s architecture to be visible. It quickly led us to a discussion of contemporary sculpture. We talked about those artists whose contributions were most visible in current practice, and we kicked around the notion of a contemporary zeitgeist; for […]

Lyra Kilston: Performa 05 was a great success. I saw how very small your staff was and the short amount of time you had in which to create a citywide biennial from the ground up—it was incredible. Besides introducing many different audiences to performance and greatly expanding people’s notions of what performance could be, the […]

The Histrionics is a satirical rock band of conceptual performance artists who appropriate popular songs in order to mock academic and commercial art paradigms. That being said, though, the most important thing about this group is the same as any other band—they know how to put on a kick-ass concert. Last summer they played a […]

Nicholas Weist: The Peres Projects program has outposts in four cities internationally, although strangely most are in the cities’ respective Chinatowns. Are you sesame chicken or orange beef? Javier Peres: Well, not so strange for me. Everyone knows I have a huge Asian fetish. Well not really a fetish, more like an addiction. My mother […]

I can’t remember the first time I read Proust—a fact that’s ironic on a number of levels. I’m pretty sure it was sometime during the summer of 2004, the summer after my first year of grad school. A friend who is something of a Proust evangelist forwarded me a Word document full of his favorite […]

I first began to recognize my role in and approach to art-making after reading Edward Said’s Orientalism.  I was in college and had seen the work of many artists (from students to well known artists on the biennial circuit) who were approaching identity politics in a direct and in some cases, exploitative manner.  Especially among […]

Two “golden ages” of sexuality come together in Paul P.’s tender drawings of sinuous, slightly gawky young men. Rendering his subjects in cinematic close-up, the young Canadian artist complicates the figures’ origins, 70s gay porn, with the grandeur and heightened sensibility of late-19th-century portraits. His subject matter recalls North America before AIDS while his style […]