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Criticism for Difficult Times

November 8, 2023

In dark times, reading criticism can be a ballast. In this mini-episode, Helen and Steve Locke return to some of their favorite texts and writers, from Walter Benjamin to W.E.B. DuBois.

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Alice Neel in the Queer World with Hilton Als

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September 25, 2024

New Yorker critic Hilton Als joins Helen to discuss his exhibition, At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World, on view at our Los Angeles Gallery through November 2, 2024.

At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, edited and with a text by Als, as well as newly commissioned scholarship by Alex Fialho, Evan Garza, and Wayne Koestenbaum.

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News and Press Highlights

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Wolfgang Tillmans and Stan Douglas in T Magazine

Tillman’s work was named among the “25 Photos That Defined the Modern Age,” as selected by an expert panel that includes Stan Douglas.

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Luc Tuymans in The Paris Review

An excerpt of Pulitzer winner Joshua Cohen’s essay on the artist, which will appear in the forthcoming monograph, Luc Tuymans: Nice, available from David Zwirner Books this fall.

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Marlene Dumas in Frieze

In a cover feature, Frieze’s Sean Burns profiled the artist, whose work, as he writes, “drags at us, pulls at our senses and emotions, becoming ingrained in our minds like the afterimage of the sun on the inside of our eyelids.”