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Tausif Noor
Tausif Noor is a critic and doctoral student at the University of California Berkeley, where he studies modern and contemporary art history. His writing on art, literature, and visual culture appears in Artforum, frieze, The Nation, The New York Times and other venues, as well as in artist catalogues and various edited volumes.

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Devil in the Detail: on Leesa Gazi’s ‘Hellfire’

Book Review

July 2021

Tausif Noor

Book Review

July 2021

British-Bangladeshi novelist Tahmima Anam’s debut A Golden Age (2007) tracks the early stirrings of revolution in East Bengal from the 1950s to the climax...

Art Review

May 2019

Simone Fattal, Works and Days

Tausif Noor

Art Review

May 2019

For the last five decades, Simone Fattal has produced works that refract the particularities of the present vis-à-vis a...

i’m running out of data on the train everyone is feeling particularly lonely it isn’t enough everyone & me     ear plugged & stirring    is listening to something considering charts & cadence of feet bounce it is likely we are listening to Drake   Drake says    sometimes i feel good sometimes i don’t   he knows that until he bursts from carbs or cliché we will love him always Drake has been on our minds now for some fourhundredtwenty weeks at least everyone & Drake is wearing t-shirts with Drake lyrics printed on them we are signing love letters and suicide notes with Drakeisms     it isn’t enough wake up mumbling something Drake drool on our pillow wonder where else still we can find traces of him we’re only now just learning   Drake says    more life more everything always more   feeding every hour on the hour all the amenities the biggest residential pool on the planet everybody in it my critics & my friends fat happy house my children & everybody loving me the pictures portrait of the artist eating    portrait of the artist in the biggest residential pool on the planet fat & happy Drake’s ear is to the zeitgeist     listening for something out there shooting his shot into space      waiting it isn’t enough to hold everybody & their faces    sing it there are so many people outside that haven’t heard it yet i don’t know if they can wait   how long Drake says     i do not know what permanence is i’m only now just learning i’m upset     doing the best that i can to be heard i need more content

Contributor

March 2018

Tausif Noor

Contributor

March 2018

Tausif Noor is a critic and doctoral student at the University of California Berkeley, where he studies modern and contemporary art...

INTERVIEW WITH ANAND PATWARDHAN

Art Review

July 2018

Tausif Noor

Art Review

July 2018

By the late 1990s a right wing government in the shape of a BJP-Shiv Sena alliance had come to power for the first time...
Danh Vo, Take My Breath Away

Art Review

April 2018

Tausif Noor

Art Review

April 2018

‘When you love, you are nailed to the cross,’ says a character in Rainer Fassbinder’s film In a Year of 13 Moons (1978). In...

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feature

July 2012

Run, Comrades, #YOLO! — Cursory Notes on Radical Hashtag Forms

Huw Lemmey

feature

July 2012

I’m not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each...

poetry

January 2012

Matisse: Tahiti (1930)

Campbell McGrath

poetry

January 2012

If I were young again I would forego Tahiti and move to America to begin a new life in...

Art

October 2013

At the Tate Britain: Art Under Attack

Joe Moshenska

Art

October 2013

Iconoclasts have never known quite what to do with the ruined fragments that they leave behind. If we imagine...

 

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