Jill Magid’s deft political staging (opens in new tab)

Contributed by Talia Shiroma / “Poolers” are members of the White House press pool, a small group of reporters permitted to witness and convey the president’s activities and statements to the press. “Pooler Room,” Jill Magid’s show at Mister Fahrenheit, located in a former swimming pool, adopts both types of pool as its titular subject—one of several analogies the artist draws in her probing of the American public’s entanglement with their government. What is the nature of an individual’s rel...