Originally published in The WILD Magazine. ◊◊ “People love dioramas,†Joianne Bittle once observed, “They get emotional about them. It has something to do with making the real non-real.†Bittle is no amateur creator of full-scale environments, having worked as a dioramist for the American Museum of Natural History before […]
Originally written for the Solo Foundation. ◊◊ For a program that lives in the narrow space of contemporary art, the New Museum mounts a show that looks both forward and back in time. There is less than one month left of “Ghosts in the Machine,†the anti-historic art historic alternative […]
Originally written for the Solo Foundation. ◊◊ By some confluence of chance and irony, and something other than coincidence, Kiki Smith was asked earlier this year to produce a temporary installation in Times Square as part of the Last Lot project space—roughly five blocks from the 1980 staging of “The […]