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Tausif Noor
Tausif Noor is a critic and doctoral student at the University of California Berkeley, where he studies modern and contemporary art history. His writing on art, literature, and visual culture appears in Artforum, frieze, The Nation, The New York Times and other venues, as well as in artist catalogues and various edited volumes.

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Devil in the Detail: on Leesa Gazi’s ‘Hellfire’

Book Review

July 2021

Tausif Noor

Book Review

July 2021

British-Bangladeshi novelist Tahmima Anam’s debut A Golden Age (2007) tracks the early stirrings of revolution in East Bengal from the 1950s to the climax...

Art Review

May 2019

Simone Fattal, Works and Days

Tausif Noor

Art Review

May 2019

For the last five decades, Simone Fattal has produced works that refract the particularities of the present vis-à-vis a...

I met John at the dance summer school He was standing at the lower set of doors towards the bottom of the hall, half-in, half-out, as if he was hoping to be missed Cherri was sitting on the empty stage The other girls had left half an hour ago When she saw her father, Cherri picked up her yellow rucksack and walked towards us, her chunky pink trainers squeaking on the old lino The building had once been a theatre and now served as a community centre As she walked across the hall, I turned to him Mr Smithley, I said, unable to finish my sentence I wanted to say that he should have been there earlier It did something to a child, always waiting for their parents But he smiled, as though he had been expecting me, not the other way around I fingered my pendant, readjusted my neckline I could not tell what he wanted exactly: men were often baffled by my fantastical appearance in a banal environment   He peered at the name badge pinned on my dress Vashti, he said Call me John He held out his hand and, after a second, I had to withdraw mine because it started burning So, he said, looking around me but not focusing on anything What will my daughter learn in the next few months? Barbara’s Premier Touring Dance School Makes Winners in the Essex Region, he read aloud from the promo poster tacked on the wall Cherri waited, rubbing her itchy-looking ankles together She looked nothing like John, with her red skin and fuzzy blonde hair He frowned at her, like she was a fossil in a museum or something else that had once been interesting The girls learn to dance and sing, I replied And even if they don’t go on to a career, they leave with our ethos to guide them through life What’s the ethos? he asked, baring small white teeth Confidence, composure and commitment, I said His confrontational manner implied great self-assurance or deep insecurity I could not yet tell them apart   Have you had a

Contributor

March 2018

Tausif Noor

Contributor

March 2018

Tausif Noor is a critic and doctoral student at the University of California Berkeley, where he studies modern and contemporary art...

INTERVIEW WITH ANAND PATWARDHAN

Art Review

July 2018

Tausif Noor

Art Review

July 2018

By the late 1990s a right wing government in the shape of a BJP-Shiv Sena alliance had come to power for the first time...
Danh Vo, Take My Breath Away

Art Review

April 2018

Tausif Noor

Art Review

April 2018

‘When you love, you are nailed to the cross,’ says a character in Rainer Fassbinder’s film In a Year of 13 Moons (1978). In...

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May 2012

Hunt for American Heiress Continues...

Seraphina Madsen

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May 2012

Hunt for American Heiress Continues With Bizarre Manuscript Found in Cave in Altamira By ALICE SHIFT 7:00 AM ET...

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Issue No. 8

The White Review No. 8 Editorial

The Editors

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Issue No. 8

The manifesto of art collective Bruce High Quality foundation, the subject of an essay by Legacy Russell in this...

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July 2013

Occupy Gezi: From the Fringes to the Centre, and Back Again

Alexander Christie-Miller

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July 2013

Taksim Square appears at first a wide, featureless and unlovely place. It is a ganglion of roads and bus...

 

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