by Gabby | Feb 3, 2016 | Interviews
One of the rare pleasures of working as an art writer is doing an interview with an artist whose work you have long admired, and discovering they are just as intriguing as their work. That was my good fortune in interviewing Abbas Akhavan for the latest issue...
by Gabby | Aug 20, 2015 | Reviews
I spent a month in Los Angeles this summer, and though I was technically on vacation, managed to see a number of shows in the city, most of which meditated in some way on poetry: or, at the very least, the role of language in meaning-making. While many of them left me...
by Gabby | Dec 27, 2014 | Writing
I have been trying to write about the work of my friend Aleesa Cohene for many years now: an artist who works with video as a medium in a way I have never seen before. I have been fascinated and entranced by her installations over the past few years, and have enjoyed...
by Gabby | Sep 28, 2014 | Conversations
Last week, I sat down with Sarah Milroy, Richard Rhodes and Sky Goodden for a panel discussion about the past, present and future of art writing. Organized as part of the Canadian Art Gallery Hop and the magazine’s 30th year, the talk asked each of us—chosen...
by Gabby | Aug 27, 2014 | Writing
Last month, I was invited to participate in a press tour of the Yokohama Triennale and the Sapporo International Art Fair, two triennial art festivals in Japan that each meditated on local histories of development and the legacies of modernism on contemporary art....
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