Emily Watlington

The Whitney Biennial Swaps Identity Politics for Infrastructural Interventions. The Verdict: All Systems Go. With memorable works by Andrea Fraser, Emilie L. Gossiaux, David L. Johnson, Carmen de Monteflores, and Agosto Machado, this edition is all systems go

A Whitney Biennal befitting of Zohran's New York ✨ My review: www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

The Pleasures and Perils of Hot Girl Feminism New York galleries offer a kind of Feminist Figuration Fall, with shows by Chloe Wise, Ambera Wellmann, Sasha Gordon, and Ren Light Pan.

I wrote about the pleasures and perils of hot girl feminist amid this autumn's Feminist Figuration Fall www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

Athens Exhibition Says the Revolution Could Begin on Your Plate “Why Look at Animals,” at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST) will rip your heart out, if you have one.

"Why Look at Animals," at EMST Athens - essential show, will rip your heart out if you have one www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

Damn overheard dimes square Deutsch: “Ich habe so viel Geld” or, “I have a lot of money.”

Emily @keys-wallet-phone.bsky.social is the art writer whose recent pieces I most urgently need to and want to catch up with. Always read her !

🥹🥹 it's mutual!!

Bob Flanagan Showed How Sex and Disability Turn the Body Inside Out Flangan's cult classic, Fuck Journal, is being reissued by Hanuman Editions, with forewords by Sheree Rose and Johanna Hedva.

I wrote about the iconique Bob Flanagan; if you don't know his work, I recommend remedying that ASAP www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

the drug is just for breathing, nbd

Someone, presmuably in need, stole my package that unfortunately contained a $15K per dose specialty medication, one that should have been delivered a week earlier (I'd already missed an injection).

Pretty good snapshot of what American feels like rn

What's the German word for that knot of feelings upon not recognizing your friend becuase of Ozempic

Climate Change Is Ushering in an “Age of Disability” The water we drink changes and the air we breathe is changing alongside our health. Sunaura Taylor, LaToya Ruby Frazier, and Asad Raza show us how.

great essay reviewing two books about disability, ecology and climate change - Sunaura Taylor with Disabled Ecologies, and LaToya Ruby Frazier with Flint is Family, from @keys-wallet-phone.bsky.social

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My apt has been mysteriously smelling like cigarette smoke for weeks. Which sucks, because my asthma is already not under control.

I just caught a man standing otuside my window, which is cracked, and BLOWING SMOKE INTO IT.

Why?!!!

My Band YouTube video by D12 - Topic

A B12 deficiency side effect that NO ONE is talking about is the frequency with which, after discusing B12, D12 songs get stuck in your head
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Art in America’s Spring “Wellness” Issue Features Abortion Art, Marina Abramović’s Longevity Method, Artists Turned Therapists, and More Art in America's "Wellness" issue features abortion art, Marina Abramović’s Longevity Method, artists turned therapists, and more.

new issue, on wellness after the rise of Goop and the GOP ! www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

Anna Odell Was Impregnated in a Psychiatric Ward, Then Made an Unlikely Film About It Her film, Rekonstruktion – Pysket (Reconstruction – Psychiatric Ward), 2024 is on view at the Trondheim Kunstmuseum in Norway through March 9.

Wrote about a film I saw in Norway in November and haven't stopped thinking about. www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

How David Lynch Gave Generations of Artists Permission to Be Weird Lynchian artists like Paul McCarthy, Cindy Sherman, Alex da Corte, and Trey Abdella pay respects to the great American filmmaker.

I talked to a bunch of Lynchian GOATS so we could pay our respects 🙏 Paul McCarthy, Cindy Sherman, Alex Da Corte, etc.! www.artnews.com/p/how-david-...

Here's a wild hawk exhibiting clear signs of bird flu, sent from a friend's clinic. Birds are dying everywhere, and officially at least, there is no one to clean up their bodies, which are also vectors. 💔

Screenshot of an article that says “Dead birds don’t lay eggs,” said Dr. Gail Hansen, a veterinary public health expert and consultant in Washington, D.C.

It makes me so sad the way avian flu is being covered only as a food supply issue/ human health threat.

Birds are amazing I don't want them to die !!

agree/asthmatic !!

At the Whitney, Christine Sun Kim’s Advocacy Is Also Her Art Kim's survey is the first major museum show to allow an artist confronting disability to be as expansive as she is.

I reviewed Christine Sun Kim's Whitney survey, and wrote about why it matters that her politics are also art www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

Text: The video, Impossible to Catch Death (2007), is on view in Calle's retrospective “Overshare” at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis through January 26. It shows a peaceful passing, a moving image that hardly moves. Calle's mother is still, then she is still some more.

tfw you google something mildly niche and the AI presents you with a sentence you yourself wrote 😭

was that release written by an AI or

A Sweeping Survey of Disability Arts Claims Everyone Is, or Will Become, Disabled “For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability,” at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, features artists like Joseph Grigely and Beverly Buchanan

Tried to convey my complicated feelings about this great big show 🌀🌀

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