Carl Craig: Party/After-party

By Simon Wu

MARCH 2021 | ArtSeen

Party/After-party (2020) is the five-year lovechild of Detroit-based DJ/producer Carl Craig and curator Kelly Kivland, a sound-and-light-installation that turned the basement of the former Nabisco packaging factory into a hologram of a night club.

Karon Davis: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

By Folasade Ologundudu

APRIL 2021 | ArtSeen

With a cornerstone of the party’s politics on full display, Davis brings our focus to the grassroots community organizing Seale and the Black Panthers were known for. Half a century later, lies perpetuated by the US government still surround the activist organization whose free breakfast programs fed school children in dozens of cities across America. In her newest work, Davis sets the record straight.

Meriem Bennani: Party on the CAPS

By Shehab Awad

OCT 2019 | ArtSeen

For Meriem Bennani’s first solo exhibition at CLEARING, the Brooklyn-based Moroccan artist has transformed the gallery into something like a spaceship.

ERICA BUIST with J.C. Hallman

FEB 2021 | Books

It’s rare, I would say, to read a book that is a pitch perfect projection of the personality of its author. There is usually a little mediation, a smoothing out of the edges, a tendency to perfect the self-portrait. Not so with Erica Buist’s This Party’s Dead, which can perhaps be described as a rollicking, globe-trotting death adventure, albeit not of the victim tourism sort.