Jarrett Earnest

Art Is a Drug

General Idea’s art was poised on a razor’s edge between complicity and critique; it is an inescapable precedent for thinking about artistic production in the twenty-first century.

Dimensions of Devotion

“Art is a social phenomenon. It is a knot that exists between people.”

A Proliferation of Beauties

The critic Dave Hickey almost single-handedly remade the practice of writing about art in the 1980s and 1990s, even as he provoked outrage in the institutional art world.

Landscapes of the Imagination

Jesse Murry's abstract seascapes enabled him to explore the inner world of the mind while infusing his art with his life as a gay Black man.