If you think raves are just hazy gatherings of intoxicated people who have forgotten where they are and can’t tell the difference between yesterday and next week, think again. According to curator Naz Cuguoğlu, raves nurture “forms of belonging that may not yet exist elsewhere.” In her opinion essay today, she explains how museums can become more welcoming spaces by embracing rave culture.
In the news, Mexico reroutes a high-speed train line to avoid harming newly discovered rock art. Good for them. Other countries — without naming names — would’ve built a mall over it.
Also today: Genesis P-Orridge’s subversive mail art, Jule Korneffel’s search for light, Jean Shin’s memorial to the trees of a New York cemetery, and more.
—Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief
The Future of Museums Is a Dance Floor
The rave offers a temporary homeland, a space where belonging is felt rather than declared. | Naz Cuguoğlu
Art by Graphic Rewilding Blooms at Brookfield Place in New York City
Bold and vibrant large-scale installations featuring blossoming flowers celebrate the natural world and bring the outside indoors.
News
- A selection of Genesis P-Orridge’s mail art from approximately half a century ago has now emerged from the National Gallery of Canada’s (NGC) collection for a focused exhibition at Art Metropole in Toronto.
- A high-speed passenger line in Mexico will be diverted after archaeologists discovered 16 pre-Hispanic drawings and petroglyphs along the planned route.
From Our Critics
Leonardo Madriz’s Monuments to the Precarity of Now
His sculptures are a striking metaphor for the fragile equilibrium of American life. | Jonah Goldman Kay
Jule Korneffel Finds Meaning at the End of Light
Her paintings compress Roman mythology, Italian Renaissance paintings, color relationships, and that moment before disappearance. | John Yau
Jeremy Frey: The Generational Impact of a New Artistic Path
Join us on April 29 for a conversation with artist and recent MacArthur Fellowship winner Jeremy Frey and Hyperallergic Editor-at-Large Hrag Vartanian.
Feature
Jean Shin’s Living Memorial to the Trees of Green-Wood Cemetery
Inspired by Korean funerary practices, the artist’s new works examine how ritual and reflection mark the cycles of time. | Jerry Elengical
Member Comment
Jozanne Rabyor on Rhea Nayyar’s “Genesis P-Orridge’s Subversive Mail Art Goes on View”:
From the Archive
In New Memoir, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Offers Candid Takes on Sex, Gender, Art, and Love
P-Orridge, who helped popularize nonbinary identity, wrote h/er memoir while living out h/er last days with leukemia. | Billie Anania
