Jacolby Satterwhite: In Conversation With Jarrett Earnest
“She’s a thief of hearts, someone please arrest her!” One sweaty summer I saw on Instagram that Jacolby Satterwhite and I were both in Miami, …
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May 17, 2016 Jacolby Satterwhite: In Conversation With Jarrett Earnest
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March 9, 2016 Juliana Huxtable: In Conversation With Jarrett Earnest
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June 27, 2015 Dave Hickey: In Conversation With Jarrett Earnest (Part Two)
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February 2, 2015 Dave Hickey: In Conversation With Jarrett Earnest
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January 16, 2015 The Right To The Island: William Corwin And Neil Greenberg “The Great Richmond”
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Juliana Huxtable: In Conversation With Jarrett Earnest
A fragment on cultural influence: I was sitting with about 10 high school students in an empty taco shop on Avenue A—they were in an …
Dave Hickey: In Conversation With Jarrett Earnest (Part Three)
Third Morning: Being Hit by a Soft Buick Mid-morning phone call: “Jarrett—Dave. I’m going to leave tomorrow because I’m not having any fun. But I …
Dave Hickey: In Conversation With Jarrett Earnest (Part Two)
One of the things that surprises me to no end, and this is an operation of power, is that people feel unable to just go …
Dave Hickey: In Conversation With Jarrett Earnest
‘I was stuck on a remote island for five weeks with Dave Hickey—’ I started telling my friend when I got back in New York. …
The Right To The Island: William Corwin And Neil Greenberg “The Great Richmond”
William Corwin and Neil Greenberg The Great Richmond: Find Yourself a Borough Staten Island Arts Culture Lounge, St. George Ferry Terminal Station Silver cities rise …
Pelé In Conversation With Jarrett Earnest
Like everyone, I am entranced by the videos of Pelé as a mover. He seems to bend space and manipulate gravity. At 72, the age …
“What is Art”—On My Birthday
One year ago on my birthday I tried to define “art” for Carter Ratcliff’s guest editorship of The Brooklyn Rail “What is Art—Why Even Ask?” …
SUMMER VACATION #5: Weeki Wachee & Salvador Dali
On the Fourth of July my family had a small reunion—parents, brothers, grand parents, great-grand mother, aunt, cousin, nephew—all met on Manasota Key on …
Zombie Formalist Art Criticism
We’re all used to limp conversations about “practice” which can mean anything to anyone without marble-plinthed pressure. As a student I used to think …
Summer Vacation #4: Tess & Cyanotype Blues
Christy Gast is back from her Kadist residency in Paris and yesterday morning we went to the beach together. There was a storm cloud in …
CRAPSTRACTION: Investor’s identity-politics art
I’ve been thinking about Peter Lamborn Wilson telling me: “The trouble with all these ideas that we take seriously is that they can be …
SUMMER VACATION #3: Cookie Mueller on a Nude Beach
With no car in Miami my choices are to walk, or to bum rides from friends I haven’t met. I’ve already earned a reputation …
SUMMER VACATION #2: Carolee Schneemann on “Blue”
My ideal morning begins by swimming in the ocean, emerging from the sea every day like life at the very start. IMPOSSIBLE GOAL: …
SUMMER VACATION #1: road trip > art fair
I escaped New York City just before the art fairs hit. At the moment I would rather crawl over ground glass than endure an art …
The Death of People You Don’t Know (for RR)
To say “it made me cry” doesn’t mean much on its own—I’ve cried at an in-flight Kate Hudson movie, but that is because I cry …
NEW: di Suvero and Cicada Press
Because living has been fast, writing has been slow—forgive my absence. Without romances and unexpected escapes, art is pointless, so we should all excuse our …
Thoughts on New Year’s Eve
The brilliant editor and critic Thomas B. Hess summed up “the news” in his 1973 yearend column for New York Magazine: “News in the …
Making a List, Checking it Twice
Many art publications have been putting out “year-end best-of” lists. (That is all this month’s artforum is.) I don’t care about “ranking” art shows, being …