

Engine of Survival: notes on Nicolas Grenier’s future visions
Nicolas Grenier’s outstanding new works of sculpture, drawing, and painting, now on at Bradley Ertaskiran, echo Leonard Cohen’s dire futuristic warnings.

The Smile’s Returning
The March edition of Play Recent features notes on Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s righteous thunder, White Boy Scream’s transnational desires, a reminder that history is not linear, and that technology and progress are not synonymous.

Always Another Medium: in conversation with Nelson Henricks
Nelson Henricks’s works have a prop shop quality to them. Are they video art, or sculpture; are they paintings, or fashion, or wallpaper? Among them, there are key elements of all of these things operating in accord.

Tim Hecker: No Highs
Careening full throttle down Mulholland Drive at dusk, the sun-bespectacled American author Bret Easton Ellis is behind the wheel of a black BMW E30 M3 blasting the latest album by Canadian composer Tim Hecker and, perhaps, attaining nirvana.

Meet Your Maker: notes on (not) drinking bourbon
Mistakenly, I was under the impression that journalism was dying. But it’s encouraging to see how many people consider themselves journalists when someone is administering journalists free shots of Maker’s Mark.

And All Things Nice: notes on Parall(elles): a history of women and design
A new MMFA exhibition cleverly sidesteps gender trouble to focus instead upon design trouble, calling into question the circumscriptions around craft, fine art, and industry.
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