Marlon Mullen, Immersive Experiences, More
This is just awful.
For in between refreshing fire maps and checking on friends, some reading:
To start the year, for TCT, I wrote about one of my favorite painters, Marlon Mullen, and his show in the Projects gallery at MoMA. Brian Droitcour (the only critic I know who visited Immersive Van Gogh) writes about Mark Leckey, Cory Arcangel, and awe. And we have un-paywalled our most-read article of 2024: Ajay Kurian’s response to the Harper’s essay “The Painted Protest.”
On January 16, at the Kitchen, I’ll be on a panel with Judith Barry and Kit Fitzgerald to discuss the current exhibition Lines of Distribution, curated by Alison Burstein. Our conversation will follow a screening of the 1986 work-for-broadcast Two Moon July, produced by Tom Bowes and Carlota Schoolman—an incredible time capsule of performance-for-camera and musical experiments featuring Laurie Anderson, Bill T. Jones, Arto Lindsay, Vito Acconci, and David Byrne. (These are just the names off the top of my head…) Reserve your spot here.