evan moffitt

writer, journalist, critic

[evan moffitt @evanmoffitt]

@joshuadecter That won’t get very far with Hamas, who obviously feel that way, but most of the calls for Palestinian liberation that I’ve seen demand democratic rights, not the replacement of one apartheid regime with another.

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@joshuadecter Why must we believe in theocracies at all?

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We have learned that after a year-long investigation by @60Minutes into the looting of Cambodian antiquities, and just days before our story is going to air, the @metmuseum is planning to announce tomorrow, together with SDNY, that the Met will return SOME of their looted antiquities. See the full story behind their announcement Sunday on 60 Minutes.

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Spent some time this summer with two of the most precise, thoughtful dealers in the business and wrote about how they’ve changed the game. @SpruthMagers

https://t.co/njBLzEkvCS

[BUTT @buttmagazine]

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Right on time and ready to read, here’s a glorious BUTT 33! 100+ pink pages choke full of sex, lust and the desire to create queer new worlds. Link in bio for full content list and info on how to order a copy by mail.

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Cambodian artist Sophiline Cheam Shapiro has just performed a solo dance at @metmuseum in front of looted statues. Her performance focused on an 8th century “harihara” statue, a masterwork that was stolen from Cambodia in the 1970s.
#dynamitedoug

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Very proud to have contributed original reporting on this wild story of art theft and genocide. It reveals the complicity of museums, galleries, and auction houses in trafficking stolen antiquities.

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First episode of Dynamite Doug out now! Hosted by @ellenwongster, telling the hidden story of how one man carried out the greatest art heist in history – the looting of Cambodia’s cultural heritage – with the aid of Western academics, dealers and curators
https://t.co/6rALiZgGfJ

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@andrewdurb1n editors beware

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“ ‘Who Is Queen?’ challenges MoMA to host a set of ideas that are fundamentally incompatible with the museum’s dialectical view of history.”—@evanmoffitt on Adam Pendleton’s new installation in the MoMA atrium https://t.co/Hl3svTD8Lt

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Erika Verzutti’s insatiable appetite for art history:

The Brazilian sculptor consumes Modernist masters to better regurgitate them, writes @evanmoffitt. Read here: https://t.co/q1UJNSF9qX

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@evanmoffitt on Adam Pendleton's right to be inscrutable; @geetadayal on how a Velvet Underground doc misses the mark; @jcfphillips on Louise Erdrich's perfectly unpolished pandemic novel; @MelissEAnderson on Joanna Hogg's ambitious sequel to The Souvenir https://t.co/Efte1z7Y2j

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A late share, but: I wrote about Robert Smithson and the Dallas airport TGI Fridays for last month’s issue of Art Review

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The artist as architect: Robert Smithson’s visionary designs https://t.co/OtfmbP0G4N

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one of the best things I saw in São Paulo last month 🖤

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A highlight of the 34th São Paulo Biennial, the artist’s performances, combining Black queer movement and modernist dance, stand as acts of resistance and hope in a time of crisis https://t.co/tFT6UPC7gV

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when it made the state motto “excelsior” new york really said “we’re spiraling upwards”

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serbucks or estarbucks?

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when the bidet ad appears above philip larkin’s “water” (1954)

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let’s not forget that act 2 of #theinheritance is the redemption story of a gay trump supporter who never renounces his politics. seems worth wondering why a tony-voting audience identified with this narrative

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@jeremyoharris isn’t the first auteur to be snubbed for making boundary pushing art, but the fact that the #tonys would award a celebration of cis white male privilege really proves that broadway is deeply rotten.

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incredibly important essay by @decafdana about the unionization drive at the new museum

https://t.co/LrrEI66zOe

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My hot take on Cady Noland’s first show of new work in over a decade is up @ArtinAmerica

https://t.co/nBbIKXZfha