In serial form, a 10 -
part curatorial essay from the 2014 exhibition 9 Artists, which featured Yael Bartana, Liam Gillick, Hito Steyerl, Danh Vo, and others.
But by the second installment of this two -
part essay (published three years later) Rubinstein was already expressing concerns about pigeonholing painters into his newly minted classification: «I realize,» he confesses, «that I have committed one of the worst, if most common, critical (and
curatorial) sins: recruiting an artist into a compelling critical narrative while missing something fundamental about his or her work.»