Alexis Clements
@alexisclements.bsky.social
Writer, filmmaker, hiker, camper, reader, maker and consumer of tasty eats.
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Coco Fusco’s performances borrow from institutional procedures: She recreates military drills and enrolls in an immersive simulation and workshop on military interrogation, dissecting the grammar of disciplinary systems.
Coco Fusco Turns Back the Ethnographic Gaze
In her first US retrospective, she becomes museum specimen, interrogator, colonial queen, and more to expose the systems that produce them.
hyperallergic.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Coco Fusco’s performances borrow from institutional procedures: She recreates military drills and enrolls in an immersive simulation and workshop on military interrogation, dissecting the grammar of disciplinary systems.
Reading the latest book by @alisonbechdel.bsky.social I couldn’t help but think of those I know who have achieved a lot of success but still find themselves struggling financially and wondering how to move forward. So, like I do, I wrote an essay about it for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
And Then What? The Road After “Success” in the Arts | Los Angeles Review of Books
Alexis Clements uses Alison Bechdel’s new graphic novel “Spent” to meditate on the predicament of the creative artist today.
lareviewofbooks.org
November 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Reading the latest book by @alisonbechdel.bsky.social I couldn’t help but think of those I know who have achieved a lot of success but still find themselves struggling financially and wondering how to move forward. So, like I do, I wrote an essay about it for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
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The entrepreneurs who are part of the booming school safety industry face a cruel irony: they are dependent on the uniquely American epidemic of school shootings.
Inside the $4 billion industry built on America's school shooting epidemic
Filmmakers Jessica Dimmock and Zackary Canepari examine the booming market a troubling new market.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The entrepreneurs who are part of the booming school safety industry face a cruel irony: they are dependent on the uniquely American epidemic of school shootings.
Even though this show is a retrospective of 40 years of work, I felt like it spoke to this moment of AI-generated attempts to claim political power. I also really appreciated one of Douglas’s interest in improvisatory potential. There’s not a ton of time left to see this show but it’s a good one.
Stan Douglas Conjures Histories That Might Have Been
Through his narrative art, Douglas reminds us that every story contains the potential for history to take another course.
hyperallergic.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Even though this show is a retrospective of 40 years of work, I felt like it spoke to this moment of AI-generated attempts to claim political power. I also really appreciated one of Douglas’s interest in improvisatory potential. There’s not a ton of time left to see this show but it’s a good one.
This was a really well put together show - kudos to the curators, Anjuli Nanda Diamond and George Bolster. Was glad to spend some extra time with it and to write about it for @hyperallergic.com
Exploring New Paths in Landscape-Based Art
A show at The 8th Floor gallery in Manhattan extracts the politics of landscape.
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October 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This was a really well put together show - kudos to the curators, Anjuli Nanda Diamond and George Bolster. Was glad to spend some extra time with it and to write about it for @hyperallergic.com
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"You kill people and break things for a living."
--Pete Hegseth, giving very eloquent instructions to military generals flown in for this momentous occasion
--Pete Hegseth, giving very eloquent instructions to military generals flown in for this momentous occasion
October 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
"You kill people and break things for a living."
--Pete Hegseth, giving very eloquent instructions to military generals flown in for this momentous occasion
--Pete Hegseth, giving very eloquent instructions to military generals flown in for this momentous occasion
While I was in Atlanta for the Art Papers symposium, I also stopped in to the #AtlantaArtFair, which was different in many ways from other art fairs I’ve attended before. You can read my coverage below.
Atlanta Art Fair Shines a Spotlight on the Southeast
The second edition of the show embraced unexpected artworks, price transparency, and a spirit of community among galleries from the region.
hyperallergic.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:02 AM
While I was in Atlanta for the Art Papers symposium, I also stopped in to the #AtlantaArtFair, which was different in many ways from other art fairs I’ve attended before. You can read my coverage below.
Mermaids, selkies, enormous man-eating mollusk shells, and lesbians - oh my! Had fun going down into the femme maelstrom for this one about the show currently up the Alice Austen Museum. Read it @hyperallergic.com
Alice Austen’s Sapphic Siren Song
A water-themed, lesbian-centric group exhibition in Staten Island explores the sea’s long association with a feminine force.
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September 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Mermaids, selkies, enormous man-eating mollusk shells, and lesbians - oh my! Had fun going down into the femme maelstrom for this one about the show currently up the Alice Austen Museum. Read it @hyperallergic.com
Read my latest dispatch below...
Dispatch: Watch 'All We've Got' from Home, Call for Participants, Recent Writing & More 💻
Sharing my work in new ways and bringing writers and filmmakers together to build community.
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August 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Read my latest dispatch below...
These photos have been making their way into the culture for a couple of decades now. There’s so much to say about them, but I shared some thoughts @hyperallergic.com - hyperallergic.com/1033022/casa...
August 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
These photos have been making their way into the culture for a couple of decades now. There’s so much to say about them, but I shared some thoughts @hyperallergic.com - hyperallergic.com/1033022/casa...
Was great to get to spend some time this spring biking around a little bit of Brooklyn to check out water system sites with Stanley Greenberg and to visit his studio for this conversation, now up @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1032599/phot...
August 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Was great to get to spend some time this spring biking around a little bit of Brooklyn to check out water system sites with Stanley Greenberg and to visit his studio for this conversation, now up @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1032599/phot...
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An embarrassment of riches! Yes, thanks to @rahnealexander.com for sending these five magnificent issues of @baltimorebeat.bsky.social cross-country so I could devour them in Seattle, hooray for Baltimore's newish alt-weekly, Black-led and controlled, and free for all, to more!💖🌠
August 8, 2025 at 3:41 AM
An embarrassment of riches! Yes, thanks to @rahnealexander.com for sending these five magnificent issues of @baltimorebeat.bsky.social cross-country so I could devour them in Seattle, hooray for Baltimore's newish alt-weekly, Black-led and controlled, and free for all, to more!💖🌠
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The United States hasn’t always gone by America. That name rose to its current ubiquity only in the 20th century. It did so in response to the United States becoming an empire.
When did the US start calling itself "America," anyway?
It took an imperial war for the country to settle on a nickname.
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August 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The United States hasn’t always gone by America. That name rose to its current ubiquity only in the 20th century. It did so in response to the United States becoming an empire.
Super excited to share that my documentary film about queer and trans spaces and communities is now available to stream worldwide, with captions/subtitles in 6 languages. Excited this film keeps making its way in the world a few years after it premiered. vimeo.com/ondemand/all...
August 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Super excited to share that my documentary film about queer and trans spaces and communities is now available to stream worldwide, with captions/subtitles in 6 languages. Excited this film keeps making its way in the world a few years after it premiered. vimeo.com/ondemand/all...
Mushrooms, a scientist who wasn’t really known in her day but managed to root herself in the field, and debating metaphors… It was inevitable that I would want to write about this fascinating little exhibit now up at the NY State Museum in Albany. Up @hyperallergic.com
The Woman Scientist and Artist Who Revolutionized the Study of Mushrooms
Scientists today still make use of Mary Banning’s research, examining the same mushrooms that she located, preserved, and packed away for posterity.
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July 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Mushrooms, a scientist who wasn’t really known in her day but managed to root herself in the field, and debating metaphors… It was inevitable that I would want to write about this fascinating little exhibit now up at the NY State Museum in Albany. Up @hyperallergic.com
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BY THE WAY, YOU WANT TO FOLLOW THE RESIST LIST.
Just a reminder - if you're ever looking for updates on the ongoing resistance to the Trump regime, then follow us @resistlist.bsky.social. Hopescroll through stories of people’s noncooperation.
And if you have any tips - send them our way!
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And if you have any tips - send them our way!
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Resist List
Noncooperation Database DELVE DEEPER WITH MOVEMENT RESEARCHERS’ DATABASES AND COMPILATIONS OF ACTION Researcher Jeremy Pressman is writing semi-regular reports about movement activity against the coup...
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July 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
BY THE WAY, YOU WANT TO FOLLOW THE RESIST LIST.
Was stewing on this for a couple of weeks and decided to just write it down and share it. Just shaking my head over here…
Post-Pride Thoughts After Listening to Yet Another Aggravating Radio Interview, or It Was Never About Love – Alexis Clements
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July 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Was stewing on this for a couple of weeks and decided to just write it down and share it. Just shaking my head over here…
Looking out on the world this summer with my dyke gaze…
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Alice Austen’s Pioneering Lesbian Gaze
Her intimate photographs of women include humor and playfulness, and speak to her closeness to her subjects.
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June 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Looking out on the world this summer with my dyke gaze…
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In which I get to write about #PhyllisBirkby #JuneJordan and some excellent contemporary art… now up @hyperallergic.com
Queer Artists Make Fantasy Architecture a Reality
Phyllis Birkby harnessed her knowledge and lesbian feminist politics to encourage countless people to reimagine their built environments.
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May 28, 2025 at 2:05 AM
In which I get to write about #PhyllisBirkby #JuneJordan and some excellent contemporary art… now up @hyperallergic.com
I got such an ick walking through this show, for even more reasons than I had the word count to write about, but here are the main points up @hyperallergic.com
Galleries That Play the “Responsibility” Game
This commercial undertaking works hard to present itself with an institutional veneer, making claims that it “fosters a sense of shared responsibility” in the art world.
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April 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I got such an ick walking through this show, for even more reasons than I had the word count to write about, but here are the main points up @hyperallergic.com
Worth the read…
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Worth the read…
Upcoming screening of my film in Athens, Greece. Fuck Drumpf's attempts to ban "sense of belonging" - I've now got subtitles/captions available in 6 languages. Reach out if you know of a group that might wanna screen it.
April 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Upcoming screening of my film in Athens, Greece. Fuck Drumpf's attempts to ban "sense of belonging" - I've now got subtitles/captions available in 6 languages. Reach out if you know of a group that might wanna screen it.
New review now up @hyperallergic.com
What Can Art Expose About Us?
Exposure at Ulterior Gallery might not offer the quick answers our ever-shrinking attention spans demand, but much in this show is worth a second view.
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April 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
New review now up @hyperallergic.com
Loved having an excuse to bring up the Lesbian Herstory Archives and Audre Lorde in my little contribution to this…
8 Art Books on Love to Read This Valentine’s Day
Letter-writing, art historical affairs, Mickalene Thomas: All About Love, and more artsy titles on love in all its forms.
hyperallergic.com
February 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Loved having an excuse to bring up the Lesbian Herstory Archives and Audre Lorde in my little contribution to this…
Was invited by Dear Dave Magazine to write about the photo show “Hard Times are Fighting Times” by Alice Proujansky. Feels like an apropos moment to be thinking about the full complexity of the lives of leftist political activists across decades. deardavemagazine.com/deardaverevi...
DEAR DAVE Magazine
By Alexis Clements, February 10, 2025
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February 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Was invited by Dear Dave Magazine to write about the photo show “Hard Times are Fighting Times” by Alice Proujansky. Feels like an apropos moment to be thinking about the full complexity of the lives of leftist political activists across decades. deardavemagazine.com/deardaverevi...