GEOFFREY MAK is the author of the essay collection Mean Boys (2024) and an editor-at-large at Spike. He lives in New York.
A son of the diaspora went looking for an education in modern Chinese art – and found both a buzzing market and a new feeling of being made whole.
What’s left from the year that was? A lucky septet of writers, curators, and artists review the sweetnesses lingering on their tongues and the splinters still stuck under their skins.
In New York, the mid-career retrospective “Project for a New American Century” recaps Kline’s horrorcore journalization of the 21st-century precariat.
A blockbuster survey lauds video art as a democratic counter to tyranny. But with endless AI content usurping the medium’s function, will the show prove to be a post mortem?
Even if the tragic hero is no longer possible, Gasda’s latest at-home play does confront us with the moral quandaries that come with drama, conflict, and power games.
Rounding out Spike x Liste Expedition Monthly Picks for 2022, Geoffrey Mak finds in painter-hacker Rachel Rossin’s metaverse fables a melancholy embrace of our fractured lives.
During the opening weekend of documenta fifteen, Geoffrey Mak witnessed the dismantling of the controversial antisemitic piece and discovered solidarity.
Former Berlin club scene it-boy and current Julien Ceccaldi expert Geoffrey Mak is new in New York. Will somebody please invite him to a party?
