January 20, 2012
Tomorrow night (January 21, 2012) I will be reading fifteen minutes of a very long novel by Miss Gertrude Stein at this marathon event to inaugurate 155 Freeman, which will house three arts organizations—Triple Canopy, Light Industry, and the Public School. Come! It should be fun.
January 19, 2012
Just got the February issue of Icon, for which I wrote a feature on architecture firm WorkAC and their urban farming projects. Will post pdf as soon as I have a chance.
December 9, 2011
I don't usually post my New Yorker reviews (turnover is too fast), but this show merits special attention. Don't miss. 
November 19, 2011
I am on Twitter! Follow @claire_barliant
November 18, 2011
The Red Hook Journal is a brand new online periodical from CCS, edited by the brilliant Tirdad Zolghadr. Artist Katya Sander has done a strange and compelling intervention involving the illustrations. I contributed a short paean to the Metropolitan Museum's newly redesigned website.
November 2, 2011
In recent news...
Just got back from blissful residency at Atlantic Center for the Arts, where I was one of eight writers selected by "master artist" Nick Flynn.
Review of David Adamo at Untitled in Art in America.
September 7, 2011
Sara Greenberger Rafferty's exhibition at Rachel Uffner's gallery opens tonight! I wrote the essay for the catalogue, which looks great.
August 5, 2011
After over a year of research and writing, here it is, my essay on the largest mass execution in the United States, when 38 Dakota Indians were simultaneously hung on December 26, 1862, an event that my ancestor witnessed. Although he wrote extensively about his experiences fighting in the Dakota Conflict, in a voice that is personal and often witty, he relied on other accounts (from newspapers and official documents) to describe the execution. This essay, with multimedia components (audio and video), attempts to find out why he could not, or would not, put his own experience of the execution into words. Read it here.
July 21, 2011
Triple Canopy is having a launch party tonight for Issue 13, which includes my essay on the hanging at Mankato. That will go up at some point early next month; will keep you posted.
July 6, 2011
Another review in Time Out this week; read it here.
June 30, 2011
Tonight is my Triple Canopy presentation, a staged multimedia reading extravaganza! At 7:00 at Cabinet. For more info, click on this.
June 15, 2011
The latest, a review of "Nancy Grossman: Heads," at P.S. 1 in Time Out New York.
And the announcement for my upcoming Triple Canopy presentation is now live! See it here. More on this to follow.
May 19, 2011
Apologies for radio silence—I am slowly emerging from the haze of grading papers and clearing my desk in anticipation of a productive summer. I am one of the text editors on a great series of notebooks being published in conjunction with, and leading up to, dOCUMENTA (13). Bettina Funcke is overseeing the series, which is titled 100 Notizen – 100 Gedanken / 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts, and the first seventeen are already out (I edited an interview with Paul Ryan by Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri). The books are available for purchase here.
February 15, 2011
Another piece I wrote for Icon just came out, this one on Dan Graham's Pavilions. Here's a photo of the spread shot by Clayton Cubitt, which beautifully captures Graham's library.
Marcel Duchamp, cover of Minotaure, 1934