Exit Strategies: On Barbara Loden’s Wanda (1970)

By ANTHONY HAWLEY

SEPT 2019 | 1 by 1

An old station wagon with wooden-siding drives across a hilly, forested landscape, grim, grey skies overhead. Telephone wires string together sections of land. In the center of the shot, a lone roadside ice-cream shop, something like a Dairy Queen precursor.

Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation

By Deena ElGenaidi

DEC 18-JAN 19 | Books

Moshfegh’s novel follows a conventionally beautiful 26-year-old woman—tall, thin, blonde—who has no real need to work, living on the Upper East Side in the year 2000, surviving off her dead parents’ inheritance. She has all the privilege and benefits afforded to a young, wealthy, white woman in New York, but all she wants to do is sleep.

Public Images

By Bartolomeo Sala

JUNE 2020 | ArtSeen

Public Images, a virtual exhibition now on view on the website of New York gallery Carriage Trade, a space that often interrogates big social and political issues, bursts precisely this “frictionless” conception of city-dwelling, exposing it as the ultimate illusion.

Dream of Solentiname

By Madeline Murphy Turner

FEB 2018 | ArtSeen

Dream of Solentiname examines the subjective thoughts and images that emerged around the spiritual, artistic, and political community from which the exhibition takes its name.