I know Ignacio Szmulewicz is an art historian who lives in Santiago, Chile. Like me, he is an art writer. But I did not have the pleasure to meet him. Instead we met the 21st century kind of way, on Twitt…

Photo: Iara Guedes I haven't reported back to you yet about the third literary dinner, a homage to Truman Capote, that I organised at Entretempo Kitchen Gallery, July 17. That's because it wa…

How can certain limitations be used to free the imagination in art criticism? Is it possible to make a show "come alive" in your writing when you haven't seen it yourself? Guest blogger Qui…

The Mundaneum, founded at the end of the 19th century in Mons by Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine to gather the world's knowledge I've been gone for a while. Yeah, I was busy vlogging in Belg…

Onika Simon at the Havana Biennial. Photo: Kwame Charles Lazy days, Leo days? Somehow Onika Simon and I always get going in August. Remember last August when Onika and I started a conversation on ar…

Photo by José Carlos Teixeira of Claudia La Rocco in front of her  poem 1 73-177 [or: Facebook Is Inescapable] ,  a site-specific wall text  for Teixeira’s Translation(s)  at Headlands Center for the …

In the 1920s and early 1930s, Walter Benjamin presented radio broadcasts for both adults and kids. One was about the  Carousel of Jobs  in which Benjamin asked his audience to describe the influenc…