Brick Press’s N.E. Thing Co.: Companies Act

By Jennie Waldow

NOV 2020 | Art Books

A “reinterpreted facsimile” of a 1978 book project by the N.E. Thing Co., a corporation that served as the umbrella for the activities of the Vancouver-based artists Iain and Ingrid Baxter, is a fascinating hybrid that succeeds as an informational compendium, a reinterpreted facsimile, and an artistic project in its own right.

Zillions of Things Become One Thing: CATHERINE CHRISTER HENNIX with Marcus Boon

By Marcus Boon

SEPT 2020 | Music

For this interview, conducted remotely from her studio in Istanbul where she currently resides, Hennix wanted to talk about music as a sonic or vibrational practice, and the ways that in the coronavirus-related lockdown, the enforced stasis that we face could become the site of new kinds of discovery and recognition.

Julie Mehretu: about the space of half an hour

By William Corwin

DEC 20-JAN 21 | ArtSeen

In this new body of work—actually three different sets of paintings and etchings—Julie Mehretu is inscribing marks from a series of hands: her own, the fingerprints of digital interventions, and even the hand of the Almighty (at least by implication), on a series of roiled and undulating backgrounds.

Louise Fishman: An Hour is a Sea

By Hearne Pardee

MAY 2020 | ArtSeen

Originally intended for Frieze New York, the works went online due to current events, but one can’t escape the sense that the digital format, while denying us the materiality so vital in Fishman’s work, enhances our experience in other ways, enlarging the paintings’ scope as if to compensate for their physical absence.