In his new Diary from the opening of SITE SANTA FE’s Twelfth International, Artforum contributor @AndrewBerardini catalogues the “ghosts” that have “come to life” in this reborn biennial, which is presenting its first edition since 2018.

As Los Angeles reels from the fires that broke out January 7, critic @andrewberardini surveys the past month’s incomprehensible events, the untold damage to individuals and communities, and the indelible, still-unfolding impact on the city’s art ecosystem.

“In Alemani’s exhibition,” writes @AndrewBerardini, “I held back a few maudlin tears watching Nan Goldin’s Sirens, 2019–2020, thrilling in the bodies electric with dance and the costs that can accompany such ecstatic release.”

"There is a pandemic; there is a war; we still embrace along the canals flowing with the milk of dreams." Some reveries on Venice last week... Linked in bio @ La Biennale di Venezia

"From the artist’s perspective, curators are like hairdressers. The best ones make you look good, the worst ones ask how they should cut your hair." - Meg Cranston

In Sayre Gomez’s paintings, I found a city I recognized: multivalent and complex, full of fading signs posted to wooden electrical poles promising everything and nothing, writes @AndrewBerardini. Outside the opening, Jonas Wood agreed: They feel like home.

“Human speech is like a cracked cauldron upon which we tap crude rhythms which make bears dance, while we long to make music that would move the stars.” - Flaubert

Until we are sick, we understand not - Keats

"You are here and you have me and we are daring and desperate and dangerous operatives saving the world and planning the destruction of evil B L U E  W A V E" -the title of Lutz Bacher's last show, which moves me every time I read it. https://t.co/O1hLp9gSvF

"Indeed if 'elegance is frigid', it can as well be described as filthy." -Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Feeling deep and pleasurable levels of schadenfreude

The form a city takes More quickly shifts, alas, than does the mortal heart. —Charles Baudelaire

"Hedi [El Kholti] creates stages, both literally for others as an advocate and publisher, but also more dreamily in layered phantasmic scenes scissored from avant-garde film, hazy porn, and fanzines of subterranean idols and pop stars" @AndrewBerardini

In this world love has no color— yet how deeply my body is stained by yours. -Izumi Shikibu (976 - 1030)

Just posted a photo @ Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles

The world was on fire and no one could save me but you @ Los Angeles, California

“When Van Dyke briefly lost his train of thought, the crowd started hollering ‘We love Dick! We love Dick!’ and I wondered to myself what Chris Kraus (also a Sanders supporter) would think.” @AndrewBerardini’s diary from the Bernie 2020 Rally in LA https://t.co/9b2q88OQxC

“Certain authors invent themselves through their environments; their lives are all interior.” @AndrewBerardini on John Boskovich’s “Boskostudio” https://t.co/MuQPl3suuH

"I'm not a part of history, I'm more a part of the mystery." - Sun Ra

Los Angeles-based writer @andrewberardini maps events, exhibitions and institutions in the Madrid Roundup. Read online: https://t.co/SxVn2s2Ciy #andrewberardini @arcomadrid @museoreinasofia @museothyssen @LaCasaEncendida @centrocentro