Ceci Moss. Ceci Moss is a curator, writer, and educator with twenty years of professional practice. Her first book, Expanded ...

I got lost several times on my way to Casa Susanna, the exhibition I had set out to write about. It was a sticky Friday night in July—“date night” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as the Met ...

During the reign of Benito Mussolini, an enormous carved relief of the dictator’s head loomed over the streets of Rome, his downcast gaze surveilling the Italian public night and day. The oversize, ...

Historical hypocrisies are thus made into moments of sincere personal shortcomings rather than situated as forms of systemic oppression essential to the construction of the world’s most merciless ...

Tilt your ear to a Jack Whitten painting and you might hear music. “You gotta be able to think like John Coltrane to do what I am doing in painting,” the artist said in the final decade of his life.

When I used the term “Muslim body” in my curatorial note* for an exhibition in New Delhi last year, I did not anticipate the extent to which it would draw institutional ire. I had used it as an ...

A soft, warm light morphs into a shadow of a woman’s braided hair on the back of her neck. There is the sound of faint footsteps as she moves around her flat, shifting objects in the kitchen, the ...

Like her Minimalist and post-Minimalist peers, Holt had been working with prefabricated industrial materials for more than a decade by the time she made her first System. Installed at John Weber ...

Ursula Biemann has been challenging, and excavating, how knowledge is produced for thirty years now, but in the past decade she has turned her attention to the environment. Her fieldwork has ...

The German American artist Eva Hesse kept meticulous diaries throughout the late sixties and seventies that account for both her personal and professional anxieties, her creative process and ...

Shelly Mars has always been interested in what we should not talk about, and as a result, she has for the past forty years faced constant criticism and pushback. Nonetheless, the multifaceted ...

There is a photograph installed near the end of Peter Hujar: Rialto at New York’s Ukrainian Museum that still holds my attention. It is a photograph imbued with a sense of quietude that informs so ...