My article on Zachary Davis’s show at Extra Extra, Philadelphia, has been quoted in Triangulation and I Like This Art. Thanks!
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Little Berlin show devoted to art and writing
Check your literal-mindedness at the door. “Reading Room: Intersections Between Art & Writing,” a group show organized by Becky Huff Hunter for Little Berlin, reveals itself slowly. Eventually, though, the boundaries between the two mediums of expression begin to blur — and fascinatingly so. Artists can be strikingly original writers and vice versa. If you […]
Duett: Becky Hunter makes her curatorial debut, by Ana Finel Honigman
For “Duett,” her curatorial debut, critic Becky Hunter demonstrated how an excellent curator combines the skills of a scholar and yenta. The match Hunter made between Berlin-based British artist, Alanna Lawley, and Philadelphian photographer, Matt Giel, yielded an intelligent, creative, conversation about photography, distance, abstract communication and curatorship. In the spirit of today’s Internet age, […]
A room of their own
Amanda Wagner previewed Reading Room in print and online for the Philadelphia Daily News, 6 July, 2012.
Artist, curator and critic Jane Boyer interviews Becky on her research and writing, and her intentions for CONCEPT PLUS OBJECT
I’ve repeatedly failed at making art, but my critical interest in Martin has only deepened. I observe in much of her work (not just the black paintings) a tense, disquieting affect, detailed in this review (2009). Through archival research, I discovered that before her major 1973 retrospective at ICA Philadelphia, responses to Martin’s work were far more ambivalent […]
The agony and the ecstasy at Vox’s AUX
Article at theartblog.org by Libby Rosof on Art Writing II: Rhythms of Time Sharing, curated by Becky Hunter and KIOSK Collective.
Duett: Alanna Lawley & Matt Giel at Grizzly Grizzly
Chip Schwarz reviewed Duett for the Knight Arts Blog, 26 January, 2012.