Judgment on Trial: Ancient Myths and Modern Ideologies The courtroom has always been a charged symbolic site; legal process and crime now dominate the popular imagination to an unprecedented extent. There televised trials and televised manhunts, encouraging the fantasy of “solving” crime by forcing individual criminals through the mangle of publicity. Politics and crime are […]
What did you make of Lala Rukh’s beats, her ‘indexing sonic ruptures and melodic sequences as a graphic sensibility? (As Natasha Ginwala puts it in the documenta 14 Daybook). Maybe you encountered them alone or with others, taking them in separately or together, like some kind of chorus, either way, when you left the space of […]
Following Louise Lawler for Art after Modernism, the New Museum and MIT series ‘Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art’ continued to commission artists as photo editors for their future volumes. Barbara Bloom selected the images for the second volume – Blasted Allegories: An Anthology of Writings by Contemporary Artists, while John Baldessari included a photographic sketchbook […]