A publishing career that spans over 35 years, critic and editor Susan Snodgrass writes about contemporary art, art criticism, material art practices, architecture, urbanism, and public art.
Recent Articles
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Artforum
Review: Andrea Carlson at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
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Artforum
Theaster Gates: When Clouds Roll Away
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Artforum
Dawit L. Petros: Prospetto a mare
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Artforum
Christina Ramberg: A Retrospective
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Artforum
Gary Cannone: Manet/Degas
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Artforum
Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s
News
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Interview with Monika Fabijanska
On the occasion of the traveling exhibition Women at War on view at the Chicago Cultural Center (August 17-December 8, 2024), I spoke with curator Monika Fabijanska about the impact of art in documenting history, the potential of feminist historiography, and the realities of life under war in Ukraine.
My book Inside the Matrix: The Radical Designs of Ken Isaacs published by Half Letter Press is currently out of stock. It is my hope to print a second edition and I will keep you updated here.
The French edition Dans la matrice : le design radical de Ken Isaacs is still available at Sombres torrents.
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Ken Isaacs’s Knowledge Box: An Experiential Model for Learning
My writing and research on the environmental practice of American architect and designer Ken Isaacs continues. In a new article published for “Schools of Departure,” a project of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, I discuss his Knowledge Box (1962/2009), an immersive educational environment.
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Ken Isaacs Interviews
A dialogue with curator and scholar Alexandra Midal on Ken Isaacs’s Knowledge Box and his search for an experiential model for education.
Here I talk with Maria Kruglyak about my curatorial work and writing on Ken Isaacs, occasioned by the multiplatform mapping project Visual Natures: The Politics and Culture of Environmentalism in the 20th and 21st Centuries, organized by the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon, which featured Isaacs’s Knowledge Box.
In this two-part interview, Paul Krainak and I discuss my research and writing on Isaacs, my role as an editor at ARTMargins Online, and my critical writing on public art and spatial art practices. Published in Sub-rural at Bad@Sports.
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Reviews of Inside the Matrix: The Radical Designs of Ken Isaacs
Metropolis | Ken Isaacs Wanted to Retool the Way We Live by Justin Kamp • February 18, 2020
New City | Before the Tiny House: Inside the Matrix Dives Into the Design Legacy of Ken Isaacs by Michael Workman • April 14, 2020
Inland Art | Inside the Matrix: The Radical Designs of Ken Isaacs by Paul Krainak • December 28, 2019
In/Site: Reflections on the art of place
In/Site: Reflections on the Art of Place is my award-winning blog devoted to art, architecture and urbanism, using Chicago as a vantage point for reflections on the work of contemporary artists, public art and urban projects that reinvent the spatial environment of the city. Look for future posts soon, but in the meantime explore the archive.