Tausif Noor

New York

Freelance Critic and Curator at Freelance

It's all about standing still, isn't it?

Articles

Dayanita Singh Finds Common Ground in the Work of Two Architects

Jul 18, 2024 | aperture.org | Tausif Noor

Architecture and photography have always been intimately connected. These media share a few fundamentals: impacts of light and air, the balance of surface and depth, interiority and exteriority, and how these relations are mediated by the human body. Attending to such concerns has guided the expansive, fluid artistic practice of Dayanita Singh, whose open-ended approach to the photographic image has led to distinctive architectural modes of display.
Tausif Noor: "Alice Notley’s Disobedience"

Jun 10, 2024 | yalereview.org | Tausif Noor

Tausif Noor Crowded with voices that speak, often simultaneously and with equal vigor, of love and sex, motherhood and its domestic demands, war and ecological crisis and human desperation, Alice Notley’s poetry is driven by a will to “disobedience.” In her 1998 essay “The Poetics of Disobedience,” Notley reflects on her decades-long rebellion against any form of truth proposed by others.
Wayne Koestenbaum on Poetry, Puberty, and Purgation

Mar 12, 2024 | interviewmagazine.com | Tausif Noor |Jake Nevins

Wayne Koestenbaum is a pleasure seeker par excellence. The New York-based artist, performer, filmmaker, poet, cultural critic—and Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York—delights in the intricacies of language, carousing across staid grammars for the most vivid and vivifying forms of engagement. A staggering repertoire of writing attests to Koestenbaum’s unbridled yen for high and low.
A Modern-Day Fable for the Tenant Class

Nov 7, 2023 | thenation.com | Grace Byron |Elie Mystal |Kaya Genç |Tausif Noor

Books & the Arts / Hilary Leichter’s fiction examines contemporary crises like work and inequality through the lens of magical realism. Her latest novel, Terrace Story, is a parable about the family and housing. Ad PolicyIn Hilary Leichter’s Terrace Story, a family of three in a large city struggles to find enough space to live comfortably. Annie, Edward, and their baby, Rose, have just moved.
Surreal Tales From Erdoğan’s Turkey

Nov 6, 2023 | thenation.com | Kaya Genç |Dave Zirin |Ethan Iverson |Tausif Noor

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How the New York Waterfront Shaped American Modernism

Nov 6, 2023 | thenation.com | Tausif Noor |Barry Schwabsky |Noah Warren |E. Tammy Kim

Books & the Arts / In The Slip, Prudence Peiffer looks at the role an overlooked neighborhood played in the lives and work of an eclectic set of post-war artists. Ad Policy A common adage about New York City is that every great story is a real estate story.
How Trinh T. Minh-ha’s Game-Changing Films Thwart Binary Thinking

Sep 13, 2023 | artnews.com | Tausif Noor

This past spring, I sat in anauditorium at the University of California, Berkeley, and waited as a group of people on stage struggled with the settings of the overhead projector so that we could begin the screening for which we had gathered. As an innocuous pause turned into an increasingly awkward delay, diagnosis of the problem worked its way around the room, in hushed tones: wrong aspect ratio. Those three words could be enough to chill the blood of any film aficionado, and especially Trinh T.
Lagos, Glimpsed from Seven Vantages

Sep 2, 2023 | newyorker.com | Tausif Noor

Look through the eyes of the photographer Logo Oluwamuyiwa, however, and a fleet of danfos morphs into a phalanx of intersecting geometric planes, transforming the everyday experience of traffic into a striking modernist composition.
Introducing Art in America’s Fall 2023 ‘Icons’ Issue

Aug 7, 2023 | artnews.com | Sarah Douglas |Emily Watlington |Tausif Noor |Zoe Samudzi

What makes an artist iconic? It depends whom you ask. For usat Art in America, it has to do with their impact on other artists, their influence on visual culture, and, ultimately, their effect on history and society. That latter quality is a tough one to gauge; it’s a bit like the proverbial butterfly flapping its wings. But the artists we feature in this issue as icons have left their mark, to be sure.
1 Africa Focus News | 1AfricaFocus

Aug 7, 2023 | 1africafocus.com | Sarah Douglas |Emily Watlington |Tausif Noor |Zoe Samudzi

Africa is many things to many people. The continent, with its sheer size and cultural diversity, is home to resilient, community-minded people who are all too often represented artistically through an inaccurate, Western lens. It’s an oversight that is gradually being corrected, though, thanks partly to the work of creators like Ndumiso Nyoni.