Ciarán Finlayson: "Ralph Lemon"

This week, the Critics' Table went for breadth—covering as much ground as possible—but got depth, too, from a lineup of the city's most astute gallery-hoppers.

For the artist, a keen reader of Benjamin, history appears as ruins, and ruins become a stage through which to fall: in a short, potent video shot in Money, Mississippi, cameras soar above the remnants of Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market, where 14-year-old Emmett Till met his end, scanning the Tallahatchie for his corpse and peering through rotten lace into his hearse.—Ciarán Finlayson