Nicole Miller

Nicole Miller is a contributor to the Brooklyn Rail.

Among recent artwork and global exhibitions addressing precarious migration, Janet Biggs’s Overview Effect, debuting in the U.S. at Cristin Tierney Gallery, is especially seductive.
Janet Biggs, Weighing Life Without a Scale, 2018. Three-channel HD video installation. Courtesy the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York.
I first came across the name Dash Snow when I was trying to understand why the heir to the Schlumberger oil fortune, had provided a private jet for Texas Democratic Congressman Mickey Leland to meet with Fidel Castro in 1979
Installation view: The Drowned World: Selections From the Dash Snow Archive, Participant Inc, New York, 2019. © Dash Snow, Courtesy the Dash Snow Archive, NYC. Photo: Mark Waldhauser.
“Do you get vertigo?” the curator of the exhibition asks me as she pulls open the Velcro seam of the inflated blob. Inside, the nylon fabric lifts around me, plumped by an air stream pumped in near the floor.
Tamar Ettun, Yellow Inflatable, 2016. Parachute fabric, thread, velcro, inflator, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Josh Hawkins/UNLV Creative Services.
Standing in front of Frank Bowling’s Regatta (2017), I want to wade into its hazy expanse, shimmering with electric pink, marine blue, tangerine, and flecks of silver, and to tongue the lozenges of beeswax dropped on the canvas like a line of boats.
Frank Bowling, Regatta, 2017. Acrylic on collaged canvas, 58.27 x 73.31 inches. Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York; Hales Gallery, London. © 2018 Frank Bowling.
The combination of law and hedge in the word nomos is quite manifest in a fragment of Heraclitus: … ‘the people should fight for the law as for a wall.
The scenes have the indelible presence of parable or myth: There was a sick woman who sought out a healer. There was a man building his house. There were two friends, sun and moon, who set out one day on the road
Gauri Gill, Untitled, from Acts of Appearance, 2015 – ongoing. © Gauri Gill.
“I would like people to sit in the bleachers,” Adrian Piper tells us, “and think of where they are sitting as an amphitheater of the sort that one would sit in to watch Christians being devoured by the lions.”
Adrian Piper, What It’s Like, What It Is #3, 1991. Video (color, sound), constructed wood environment, four monitors, mirrors, and lighting, dimensions variable. Installation view in Dislocations, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 20, 1991–January 7, 1992. © Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation Berlin.
MATERIAL WITNESS WITNESS MATERIAL opened at the Knockdown Center on the twenty-seven-year anniversary of the beating of Rodney King.
DonChristian Jones, Save, 2018. Projected video, sound. Courtesy the artist.
For nearly forty years, Hannah has worked in the figurative, narrative tradition of Winslow Homer or Edward Hopper.
Duncan Hannah, Punting on the Cam, 2010. Oil on canvas, 44 x 35 inches. Courtesy Invisible Exports.
Club 57 maps a set of underground attitudes and practices that have now gone mainstream.
Acts of Live Art at Club 57. Pictured: Larry Ashton. 1980. Photograph by and courtesy Joseph Szkodzinski.
Every era has a gadget that speaks to the spirit of the times.
Ellen Harvey, Arcade/Arcadia, (2011-2012), Wood frame, aluminum letters, light bulbs, and 34 hand-engraved Plexiglass mirrors over Lumisheets. Courtesy the artist and Danese/Corey.
“The T-shirt made a kind of social debut in the 1950s, a literal ‘coming out’ from concealment as an undergarment to attitude-intensive outerwear,” according to artist and satirist Pippa Garner.
Anger Management Pop Up, Brooklyn Museum, Photo: Jonathan Dorado.
Works on Water is the inaugural triennial devoted to works made on, in, or with water.
A Decade Platform, artist-built boats by Mare Liberum. (Photo credit: Marina McClure)
In these images, Spence provides a first-person account of the female body and interrogates the ideological systems that govern and extend outside the self.
Jo Spence, Remodelling Photo History (Victimization), 1981-82. 25 x 20 cm. Courtesy Shin Gallery.

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