The Shoptimist: An advertisement in influencer’s clothing
...proliferates to 308,000 followers on Instagram and 611,500 followers on TikTok. Her link-in-bio redirects users to a dark oatmeal-colored landing page where you can shop...
Sarah Gavlak’s New Wave Art Wknd transforms West Palm Beach into an artistic haven
...to visit that friend, and I thought, Why isn’t anyone doing a contemporary art gallery here featuring artists who appear in the Whitney Biennial or...
Fine Print: Thirty-three top reads of 2024
...not that individuals (that is, characters, but also, we readers) become important, but that all people and all agents are inescapably, if invisibly, linked. Sure,...
David Gray’s ‘Wait For It’ renders New York City as a playground of light and shadow
...where the link may not be obvious at first, can give both of them greater meaning. Or perhaps just magnify the humor or whimsy [of...
The Venice Biennale gets a closing ritual in the form of ‘La Culebra’
...DJ and creative director of Mexican music label NAAFI Alberto Bustamante and curator Sam Ozer to conceive a performance as a “closing ritual” for the...
‘The Whitney Review of New Writing’ turns Performance Space into a speculative archive
...one-night-only performance program curated by writer and editor Whitney Mallett at Performance Space New York in the East Village. The evening celebrated the launch of...
Escapism without escape
...heave and tug against each other. Uncanny dynamics emerge. Furniture reads like the passage of time. I meet up with Whitney and Maya. We’re starving....
Redefining intelligence through intuition
...link intuitive creation to an artistic gesture, Hildegard’s intuition was medicinal, botanical— she is considered by many as a pioneer of natural medicine and scientific...
Desiring literature with Nate Lippens and Kate Zambreno
...concept and the deadline (as I link, I think, my own recent and current work, including my own study of Guibert, to having a late-stage...
Document and Performa celebrate boundary-breaking art together
To coincide with the release of its Fall/Winter 2025 issue, Document hosted the afterparty for the live art biennial’s 20th-anniversary gala...
Performa to celebrate 20 years of artistic impact with Artist Party co-hosted by Document
Founded by art historian and curator RoseLee Goldberg 20 years ago, Performa has become a leading biennial exhibition of boundary-pushing live artwork. Over the past...
Shapeshifting press Semiotext(e)’s five decades of politics and poetics
For Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue, Whitney Mallett talks to co-editors, writers, and collaborators of the legendary publisher of theory and fiction...
Document Launches Fall/Winter 2024–25: A New Perspective
...do well to follow Chris Kraus’s idea, as she explains to Whitney Mallett in a reflection on legendary independent press Semiotext(e), not to “separate personal...
Mark Armijo McKnight’s ‘Decreation’ undoes the self
...Mexico Badlands pliable like dough, and ominous goat skeletons. Select works from Decreation are on view at The Whitney Museum until January 2025. For Document,...
The Shoptimist: Myths, markets, and the business model of hype
...was released, Supreme’s myth bloomed within the downtown arts scene, creating a link between in-the-know artsy Soho chillers and underground skate culture where both informed...
Roving literary event Casual Encounterz prioritizes the pen over the persona
...Tulathimutte reads a short story from forthcoming collection Rejection—a version that he remarks had been considered “too dirty” for The Paris Review. Whitney Mallett, founding...
Joshua Serafin’s ‘VOID’ mines the elemental, ancestral, and transmigratory experience of their ancestry
...and the earth. When Patrick Flores invited me to participate in VIVA Excon, which is a biennial in the Philippines located in my region, this...
Fine Print: Poetry by any means necessary
...sun set, I Citibiked over the Brooklyn Bridge to make it to Metrograph, on Ludlow Street, for an evening of three films organized by Whitney...
The mother and the monster in Catalina Ouyang’s ‘Trick’
...sheer size. An intimidatingly massive black metal sculpture with a wide ring serving as the base shooting two arms that link the air. The machine...
Hallucinating sense in the era of infinity-content
...“Chicago” as “Chicano,” Chicago being historically linked to gangsters and present-day drill music, the date suggesting some important historical event, the Michelangelo motif giving the...
New Red Order blends satire and sincerity to deconstruct empire
...centers, installations, or, as shown at major venues like the Sharjah Biennial and the Museum of Modern Art, photogrammetry videos that turn sculptures of exponents...
Mara Mckevitt’s cult of persona
...(2023) 64 pages, edition of 100, published by Clementin Seedorf. Courtesy Mara Mckevitt. Whitney: I liked that Maya [Martinez]’s review of Making Of in The...
Bill T. Jones and Hank Willis Thomas reanimate creative freedom
...studies, and visual criticism into the carefully considered multimedia art he creates today. In addition to showing at institutions like the Museum of Modern Art,...
Guerreiro do Divino Amor builds a Helvetian Olympus at the 60th Venice Biennale
...linked to decisions made in Switzerland.” Aesthetically, Guerreiro cites Brazilian carnival culture as a driving reference point (alongside video games). But he also clocks the...
Club Document: Celebrating SS24 with Erykah Badu, Michèle Lamy, and Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson
...Participant Inc.’s Lia Gangitano, Daisy Prince, Sam Penn, Parma Ham, Thomas Rom, Performance Space New York’s Pati Hertling, Whitney Mallett, Taylore Scarabelli, Michelle Duncan, Michael...
The sincere glamor of Candy Darling
...starlit autonomy. (The artist Greer Lankton would later make dolls of Vreeland and Candy, the latter for the 1995 Whitney Biennial. Many of Lankton’s dolls...
Erykah Badu and Michèle Lamy summon the spirit of the future
...we have this in common; we feel we are one link in the chain. Another thing we have in common is we feel like everywhere...
Isabelle Huppert and Bruce LaBruce capture the profound power of deviance
“Maybe I have a twisted spirit,” says Isabelle Huppert. “But I never thought there was any perversity or brutality in any of the roles I’ve...
Lucia De Vito’s contemporary take on Fabiana Filippi
...the nature of the Umbria region, which is known as the “green lung” of Italy. The company’s values are deeply linked with history, culture, and...
Cooper Brovenick’s diagnosis for the new age
...high-profile clients of his early mentor, interior design legend Whitney Robinson. A Modern Disease—like jetlag is his second presentation as a curator, a show that...
Taja Cheek makes curation a collaborative art
...guest curator for the 2024 Whitney Biennial’s performance program. As L’Rain, Cheek’s releases regularly top “best of” lists, and she’s toured with acts like Animal...
Fine Print: A Tale of One City
...Whitney Mallett, the eponymous editor of The Whitney Review of New Writing, who’d graciously brought me as her plus-one. Most men wore blazers, except for...
Can Botox help you live longer?
...treatments such as hormonal imbalance tests and fertility screenings are considered as essential to “wellness” as are services for Botox injections. The link between physical...
Fine Print: Can two writers handle real life together?
...a link that sounded compelling. Three paragraphs in, a pit welled in my stomach. There I was: post-party, coked out, foolish, and, of course, 22....
For Hugo Comte, abstraction is the highest form of flattery
...an experimental or home movie? Hugo: It is my first. I’ve written a bunch of short narratives for music videos that didn’t turn into anything....
50 years at church with the Poetry Project
...acoustic guitar in a Colette T-shirt screen-printed “VICTORIAN PUNK.” Photographed by Whitney Mallett. The electricity in the room swelled at around 8.30 when poet Cuthwulf...
For London’s newest class of designers, performance and wearability go hand in hand
...full stomach and fresh inspiration. Whether I’m sat on the bus or doing a food shop, I am constantly examining the world, seeing how I...
‘Lavender Deal’ summons love in the time of COVID
Niko Hallikainen’s sprawling performance poem reflects on heartache over synth and across countries for the Performa Biennial...
The Latin American Fashion Awards are by and for the community
...alongside designer Silvia Argüello, who combined their passion to empower their community in co-founding the biennial project. After walking the red carpet, in line with...
Sumayya Vally and Alvaro Barrington work between the folds of familiar and imaginative belonging
...how you perform this aspiration. Sumayya: Aspiration is about manifesting forms of imagination that link back to myths from different landscapes. But they also are...
Martine Gutierrez deconstructs the avatar, in conversation with Zackary Drucker
...Drucker knows the line that must be toed, pitting the paradigmatic against the three-dimensional subject. Self-narrativizing is inextricably linked to the documentarian’s process, most recently...
The next wave of indie publishing
...Levy, describe the project as “too small to fail,” an approach that exemplifies their DIY editorial ethos. Whitney Mallett, who recently launched The Whitney Review...
For Romy and Charlotte Wells, joy and grief are inextricable
...you deeply respect and admire? Romy Madley Croft: [Laughs] Yeah, what if I was secretly horrible? When I got sent the link to watch Aftersun,...
The superstructure behind Yiyun Li’s fiction
...linking and unlinking—a repeated thesis, antithesis, synthesis. As characters speak, consensus forms and is broken; ideas are rebuffed, solidified, re-wrought. Each story, each pair, each...
Reckoning with the compound
...his depictions of New York City—which were recently revived in a thoughtful yet dull exhibition at the Whitney—the Cape Cod paintings show collections of barns...
Motherhood at the end of the world
...It creates this really direct link between Antarctica and us. Alex: You’re very generous in handing over narrative shape to your protagonists—they almost narrate the...
For Donatien Grau, all roads lead to LA
...Koons to Raymond Pettibon, Whitney McVeigh to Huang Yong Ping, the show was a meditation on what might emerge from “the ultimate Platonic experience”—contemplation. Behind...
The modern German fairytales of Christian Petzold
...German and deeply entangled in the wider images and cultural mythologies of Europe and America—albeit those which have entered into a new Millennial phase of...
‘Ed Templeton: Wires Crossed’ immortalizes DIY skate culture’s heyday
Aperture’s Ed Templeton: Wires Crossed speaks eloquently about loss and joy and oblivion, the stature and swagger of youth, and its link to the 40-mile...
