Wong Ping Camden Arts Centre / London
Wong Ping’s practice revolves around three fundamental aspects — filmmaking, sculpture, and storytelling. His animated films are the result of…
HOMELAND Ordet / Milan
If there is a narrative that dominates degenerate populist and sovereign rhetoric, it is that of the border. Whether based…
Libita Clayton Spike Island / Bristol
To access Libita Clayton’s immersive sound installation Quantum Ghost (2019), one must enter the space through a cave mouth leading…
Tawan Wattuya Hatch Art Project / Singapore
In these ominous images we see the dark vision of humanity that has characterized Wattuya’s work for much of his…
Feasts of excess: Zoe Williams
In her 1992 novelThe Secret History, author Donna Tartt details the story of a group of youths studying the classics…
Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival XXII Triennale / Milan
Put it this way: what we define as contemporary is mainly connoted by fragility. If we look at projects like…
Lis Rhodes Nottingham Contemporary / UK
This summer, all four galleries at Nottingham Contemporary are dedicated to the largest survey exhibition of Lis Rhodes to date…
May You Live In Interesting Times 58th Venice Biennale
How does one write a review for a “project” like the Venice Biennale, which includes an international mega-exhibition alongside a…
Unsublime Ecology
The frightening theme of global warming is often addressed in catastrophic terms expressed in visions of utter annihilation. At times…
Eco-Tripping: Ant Farm’s Environmental Media
In 1970, the American architecture and video collective Ant Farm advertised their distinctly countercultural services as “air buildings, nomadic visions”…
DATA MATTER
The world is drowning in data. Every second, 2.8 million emails are sent, 30,000 phrases are Googled, and 600 updates…
Flash Art #326 June – August 2019
The summer issue of Flash Art is an attempt to map the ecological breakdown that is restructuring our belief systems, forcing us…
Crossing Borders, Mobilizing Thought: The Farm in the Cave’s Seven-Hour Performance
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. If there is a common element in recent experimental…
Disaffected Bodies: Anne Imhof’s Sex
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. Anne Imhof’s much-anticipated new work presented at Tate Modern…
Forsythe’s Immaculate Choreography
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. It’s fitting that American dancer, choreographer, and artist William…
Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. “The source of life in any dancer is…
The “Homespun Spinelessness Cult” of nabbteeri
The task of representing Finland, Norway, and Sweden — or the Nordic countries — at the 58th International Art Exhibition…
On Failure, Decay, and New Forms of Responsibility. A Conversation with Ibrahim Mahama
Architecture, and the dissonance between its history, form and function is paramount to artist Ibrahim Mahama, representing Ghana at the…
Anastasia Mityukova’s Project Iceworm
“Project Iceworm” was a mid-twentieth-century mission undertaken — then abandoned — by the U.S. military to test nuclear missiles in…
Sex and the Panopticon A conversation between Shu Lea Cheang and Paul B. Preciado
Shu Lea Cheang has lived a number of different lives: as a queer media activist, a cyberpunk filmmaker, and an…
On the Verge
Movie Night is a column exploring film semiotics and thoughts about moviegoing in general. “Does Madonna drown herself in the…
A Certain Inevitability
Movie Night is a column exploring film semiotics and thoughts about moviegoing in general. Oigo el llorido del mar, el…
Double Take
Movie Night is a column exploring film semiotics and thoughts about moviegoing in general. Mary Evans: Oh, you wouldn’t do…
Looking for the Green Ray
Movie Night is a column exploring contemporary film semiotics and thoughts about moviegoing in general. “How you live your life…
Gil Yefman Tel Aviv Museum of Art / Israel
How can a young Israeli relate to the memory of the Holocaust without the risk of falling into the twofold…
Lee Jaffe Eva Presenhuber / New York
As a musician, artist, poet, photographer, and filmmaker, Lee Jaffe has lived many lives in different countries. What has always…
Derek Jarman Amanda Wilkinson / London
Twelve paintings made by Derek Jarman between 1989 and 1990 make up the exhibition “Shadow Is the Queen of Colour”…
MOMENTUM10 10th Nordic Biennial of Contemporay Art / Norway
The tenth installment of this Scandinavian biennial, held in the small paper-milling town of Moss, Norway, can certainly be seen…
Lydia Ourahmane Bodega / New York
Lydia Ourahmane’s exhibition “low relief” at Bodega is comprised of a set of sculptures that suggest an emergence of the…
Trevor Paglen MCASD / San Diego
Welcome to the end. The end of world, maybe — though more certainly the end of the exhibition. In a…
Global National Haus am Lützowplatz / Berlin
Some things are over in no time at all, and some things linger, even if one would like them to…
Arus Balik NTU, Centre for Contemporary Art / Singapore
“Arus Balik – From Below the Wind to Above the Wind and Back Again” is an exhibition that references an…
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Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival XXII Triennale / Milan
Gil Yefman Tel Aviv Museum of Art / Israel
May You Live In Interesting Times 58th Venice Biennale
Lee Jaffe Eva Presenhuber / New York
Stefano Serretta Italian Cultural Institute / Stockholm
Whether Line Fondazione Prada / Milan
My Head is a Haunted House Sadie Coles HQ / London
Piero Manzoni Hauser & Wirth / New York
Art and the Idea of Black Film: A Conversation
This past fall, the Fondazione Prada in Milan hosted “The Black Image Corporation” (September 20, 2018–January 14, 2019), conceived by…
Spectacle of Concealment
Performances of blackness have generally been limited to particular styles of music, theater, dance, and popular culture, which has fostered…
Rarebooksparis
A Vogue Idea is a column by Matthew Linde exploring contemporary fashion practice.The ambivalent logic in which fashion perpetually rewrites itself…
Double Take
Movie Night is a column exploring film semiotics and thoughts about moviegoing in general. Mary Evans: Oh, you wouldn’t do…