Rachel Wetzler
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Close Up: Thomas Hirschhorn’s Fake It, Fake It—Till You Fake It., Artforum, March 2024
States of Awareness, a review of “Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc” at the Walker Art Center, Apollo, February 2024
The Renaissance is Having a Renaissance, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, July 2023
Making Space, on Katarzyna Kobro and Constructivist sculpture, Art in America, September 2022
March of the Cyborgs: The 59th Venice Biennale, Art in America, August 2022
What Was Surrealism?, on “Surrealism Beyond Borders” at the Met and the movement’s historiography, Art in America, April 2022
Night at the Museum: Louise Lawler at Metro Pictures, Art in America, November 2021
The Art of the Con, on art world novels, Art in America, July 2021
The Work of Realist Art, on contemporary worker portraits and the Realist tradition, Art in America, September 2020
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, on Jana Euler, Art in America, April 2020
The Fox News Theory of Art, The Baffler, January 2020
Culture Worriers, on art at the Cato Institute, The Baffler, July 2019
Communal Luxury, on Paulina Ołowska, Art in America, March 2019
Nothing to Do With Art: Gary Indiana’s Vile Days, The Baffler, January 2019
Gut Renovation, on Gordon Matta-Clark, Art in America, March 2018
How Modern Art Serves the Rich, The New Republic, February 2018