Mark Krotov

Mar 20, 2025 | nyra.nyc | Mark Krotov

THE WORDS UNBUILT, DEMOLISHED, AND PARTIALLY DEMOLISHED appeared thirty-eight times throughout the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s recent Paul Rudolph exhibition. Days before the show opened, Hurricane Helene moved another of Rudolph’s buildings—Sarasota’s Sanderling Beach Club (1952)—into the demolished column. His headquarters for the biomedical nonprofit Burroughs-Wellcome (1972; expanded in 1982) crossed over in 2021.

Feb 17, 2025 | nplusonemag.com | Mark Krotov

In the aftermath of this fall’s presidential election, some commentators argued that for a critical constituency of Trump voters, the second “A” in “MAGA” had referred to Trump’s first term. If, during the 2016 campaign, “Again” had evoked—however hazily—a midcentury idyll of professional stability and aggressively policed racial and gender hierarchies, in 2024 the gesture had become recursive: vote me back in for more of the same. RETVRN . . . to that? It was hard to figure.

Dec 16, 2024 | nplusonemag.com | Mark Krotov

Dushko Petrovich Córdova, Trump on My Phone. 2024, acrylic on glass. 12 × 26". Photo by Assaf Evron. Courtesy of the artist. The Friday after the election, I spoke on the phone with a friend from Europe while wandering around the riverfront park near the n+1 office. My friend informed me that he would soon be sending me an election rant. Within minutes the email appeared, subject line “rant.” “How come you didn’t see what was so obvious?” he wrote.

Nov 13, 2024 | newyorker.com | Mark Krotov

Three-quarters of the way through Richard Linklater’s 1990 film “Slacker,” an accomplice to a botched robbery strolls past a concrete lot covered in AstroTurf, on top of which a sculptor is setting up an installation: twenty-eight clay teacups arranged in a circle, symbolizing her menstrual cycle.

Nov 6, 2024 | nplusonemag.com | Mark Krotov

In the final weeks of the campaign it was hard not to interpret the images of Donald Trump’s turgid, endless rallies as proof of collective exhaustion on the part of his party.