Articles by Monica Westin

Research and Relationality: An Interview with Zach Cahill

Research and Relationality: An Interview with Zach Cahill

Cahill’s “The Orphanage Project” is a sprawling discourse on the parental nation-state, pseudo-propaganda art, and the parallels between the museum and the orphanage.

Reasons to Write Into Art: On Textual Collaboration with Artist Heidi Norton

Reasons to Write Into Art: On Textual Collaboration with Artist Heidi Norton

What happens when a critic and artist collaborate on a work of art?

Microscripts and Visual Conversations: “In the Spirit of Robert Walser” at Donald Young Gallery

Microscripts and Visual Conversations: “In the Spirit of Robert Walser” at Donald Young Gallery

How do visual artists and writers engage one another in conversations from within their own mediums?

The MCA’s “This Will Have Been” and the Subjectivity of History

The MCA’s “This Will Have Been” and the Subjectivity of History

Westin reviews a new exhibition surveying the art of the 1980s that includes the work of numerous artists featured in “Art in the Twenty-First Century.”

The Art of Enduring: An Interview with Cupola Bobber

The Art of Enduring: An Interview with Cupola Bobber

How do artists use time as a material? The collaborative duo Cupola Bobber create epic, continually-unfolding projects that take years to complete.