All posts by James McAnally



Art Plus Time

Has economics become the dominant mode of artistic action of our time? From Sotheby’s and e-flux, to W.A.G.E. and Free Cooper Union, the market, protest movements, and the model of the artist-as-entrepreneur threatens to overwhelm art’s social and aesthetic aims.




Public Functionary: A Prologue

James McAnally speaks with Tricia Khutoretsky, the Director and Curator of new Minneapolis gallery space Public Functionary, about the gallery’s vision of socially-engaged exhibitions that extend beyond the gallery.



Ideas of Order at COCA

Curator Jessica Baran conjures a productive disarray of domestic and found objects from St. Louis artists Gina Alvarez, John Early, Wonder Koch, and Peter Pranschke.