by Megan Horn In order to view Hito Steyerl’s video installation Liquidity, Inc. (2014), viewers lounge on judo mats placed on a platform that resembles a cresting wave. However, the architectural elements surrounding the video are markedly placid in comparison to the film’s jarring montage of weather forecasts, mixed-martial arts fighting, and social media references, […]
by Rachel Kline and Kaylee Kelley The discipline of art history has often struggled to reanimate what, for many of us, are three-dimensional objects stripped of their original context within the white walls of the modern museum. In the field of Renaissance art history, Michael Baxandall attempted to revive the temporally specific viewer with his […]
by Catherine Lennartz What lies beyond the veil? Some version of this question has inspired people from every walk of life to use mortality as a source of inspiration. No matter our beliefs, death and its unknowns have yielded varied forms of artistic production that remain evocative to this day. Rituals surrounding death permeate human […]
by Toni Armstrong If secrets are a form of social currency, then the history of art has a wealth of treasure to be discovered. Secrets have long been a form of community building, as those “in” a given circle are allowed to know and those “outside” are kept in the dark. The word secret comes […]