Geoffrey Mak

View of “Project for a New American Century,” Whitney Museum of American Art, 2023. Photo: Ron Amstutz

View of “Project for a New American Century,” Whitney Museum of American Art, 2023. Photo: Ron Amstutz

Josh Kline’s “Project for a New American Century”

In New York, a mid-career retrospective at the Whitney recaps Josh Kline’s horrorcore journalization of the 21st-century precariat.

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Amar Kanwar, The Torn First Pages , 2004–08

Amar Kanwar, The Torn First Pages, 2004–08, 19-channel b/w and color video, sound, silent, varying duration

On Reels

A blockbuster survey at MoMA, New York, lauds video art as a democratic counter to hegemonic power. But with AI usurping its witness function with endless content invention, is “Signals” actually the medium’s post-mortem?

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View of Matthew Gasda, Dover , Beckett’s, New York, 22 Januar 2023. Photo: Matthew Weinberger

View of Matthew Gasda, Dover, Beckett’s, New York, 22 January 2023. Photo: Matthew Weinberger

Tainted Love: on Matthew Gasda’s “Dover”

Is the tragic hero even possible in 2023? Not really. But Matthew Gasda’s latest play does confront us with the moral quandaries that come with drama, conflict, and power games.

Discourse

Instituto de Artivismo Hannah Arendt, List of censored Artists , 2022. Installation view, documenta Halle, 2022, Kassel. Photo: Nicolas Wefers

Instituto de Artivismo Hannah Arendt, List of censored Artists, 2022. Installation view, documenta Halle, 2022, Kassel. Photo: Nicolas Wefers

documenta fifteen: Whose Side Are You on Anyway?

Attending documenta 15, Geoffrey Mak witnessed the dismantling of the controversial antisemitic piece and discovered solidarity.

People

Geoffrey Mak in front of "Avery Singer: Reality Ender" at Hauser & Wirth, New York.

Geoffrey Mak in front of “Avery Singer: Reality Ender” at Hauser & Wirth, New York

7pm in Manhattan

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?

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Illustrations by Kurt Woerpel

Dead Ends

Geoffrey Mak and Dominikus Müller take a stand on some recently busted flushes.