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Amy Sillman: To Be Other-Wise, installation view. Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery. Photo: David Regen. © Amy Sillman.
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Johanna Fateman on Whitney Biennial 2024
Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, installation view. Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art. Photo: Ron Amstutz. Pictured, left to right: Carmen Winant, The Last Safe Abortion, 2023; Julia Phillips, Mediator, 2020; Harmony Hammond, Patched, 2022; Harmony Hammond, Black Cross II, 2020–21; Harmony Hammond, Chenille #11, 2020–21.
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Melissa Anderson on The Substance
Demi Moore as Elisabeth Sparkle in The Substance. Courtesy Cinetic Media.
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Harmony Holiday on Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain during the taping of MTV Unplugged: Nirvana at Sony Studios in New York City, November 1993. Courtesy Getty Images. Photo: Frank Micelotta Archive.
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Tobi Haslett on Stubble Archipelago
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Jessi Jezewska Stevens on Intermezzo
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Sasha Frere-Jones on Steve Albini
Steve Albini, San Francisco, 1991. Photo: Gail Butensky.
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Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina and Nathalie Emmanuel as Julia Cicero in Megalopolis. Courtesy Lionsgate.
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Sasha Frere-Jones on The Intellectual Situation
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