The playwright on the artworks, essays, and experiences that have shaped her world.

"You don’t need opera, the grandeur of apparitions and murderous confessions, to access horror. Not in America, anyway"

“Sofia’s crime is not her betrayal of the documentarian’s fiduciary duty to biographical explication but the tasteful neutering of Marc’s histrionic import”

"Spaulding attempts to repair a critical vocabulary that has long known what to do with Duchampian skepticism, but is much less sure about Beuysian belief"

"Side by side, the books make a case for the permeability of her fiction and her criticism; you can hear them like Pyramus and Thisbe whispering through walls"

“What still amazes me, and what I envy, is this: Fried intuited that his taste in contemporary art had a historical basis”

"I can still hear her whispering and then suddenly singing Verdi out loud—Nabucco, her favorite"

"People who are 'really into eighties movies' are never into the right ones"

With a brazen gynephilia, Holzinger's art luxuriates in the violence that high art and its histories conceal

If today’s art world appears trapped between oligarchy and institutional drift, the 1970s offer a revealing glimpse of another configuration

"Liden’s most poignant messages, concerning the ongoing 'redactions' of public speech in Germany, are indirect"

In his tender, darkly comic work, Kokopeli sends up millennials' wretched attempts to make contact with the media culture of their youth

What a blinking novelty computer chip from the '80s can teach us about our AI-assisted apocalypse

“The immediacy of Polaroid picture-making predicted the digital snapshot of our time, the memory machine at its most omnivorous”

“To lament time’s march or enjoy the moment? Nilsson’s maximalist dreamworlds offer the possibility of both”

“I wanted to find some other part of the show that was free, exciting. Where was the Duchampian poetry?”

“What does it mean that this show cosplays as ‘neutral’?"