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…
Adjacency: Luke Willis Thompson’s Poethics of Care
The right to look or the right to look away? Who chooses to look and who chooses to look away?…
A New Aesthetics of Conviviality
Intensifying racisms and growing ethno-nationalisms require political answers. We know what has to happen: negotiations, treaties, and policies will have…
Whitney Biennial 2019 Whitney Museum of American Art / New York
The Whitney Biennial has historically been an occasion for artistic protest and institutional critique, and this year’s iteration proved to…
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Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality Cranbrook Museum / Detroit
“Landlord Colors” stages a comparative history of the art of sociopolitical upheaval, bringing together work from five far-flung locales during…
Gelitin & Liam Gillick Kunsthalle Wien / Wien
Like anything else, “Stinking Dawn” affects the way you see things as much as it reflects them, but it is…
Alex Ayed B7L9 / Tunis
From the garden behind the gallery, Alex Ayed summons a flock of pigeons that obediently shuffles its way into the…
Mia Habib TBA Festival / Portland
A swarm of people gathers in Pioneer Square, the amphitheater-shaped plaza that is Portland’s downtown hub. These thirty or forty…
Berlin Art Week 2019
Now in its eighth edition, Berlin Art Week is a victim of its own popularity. Spanning five days (September 11–15),…
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…
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…
Double Take
Movie Night is a column exploring film semiotics and thoughts about moviegoing in general. Mary Evans: Oh, you wouldn’t do…
Inner Ear Vision: Sound as Medium Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts / Omaha
“Inner Ear Vision: Sound as Medium” at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts offers a welcome cross section of innovative…
Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of CalArts Kestnergesellschaft / Hannover
“A community for all the arts … a cultural center for the new age.” This sounds like another Bauhaus centennial…
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…
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…
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…
HOMELAND Ordet / Milan
If there is a narrative that dominates degenerate populist and sovereign rhetoric, it is that of the border. Whether based…
Sara Cwynar Blitz / Valletta
“My mission is to spark joy in the world through tidying,” says a smiling Marie Kondo — the pop-culture tidying guru…
Singapore Utopia Chan + Hori Contemporary / Singapore
A gang of avant-gardists wants to have a utopian impact on Singapore society. They hope to shape the present world…
Conditions of Life: Forensic Architecture in the Age of Climate Breakdown
The Motagua Fault is an active, moving fault that extends across Guatemala and is part of the tectonic boundary between…
COMPOSING HOME / UNIVERSAL RIGHTS
Composing Home In this time when we humans have become a geologic force, most of us live in increasingly…
Coactivity: Between the Human and Nonhuman
A new generation of artists is exploring the intrinsic qualities of materials “informed” by the activities of humanity, and bearing…
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…
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#326 JUNE–AUG 2019
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COMPOSING HOME / UNIVERSAL RIGHTS
Ettore Spalletti NMNM / Monaco
Conditions of Life: Forensic Architecture in the Age of Climate Breakdown
“The Life of Matter is Already an Artistic Practice.” Metamorphosis and Alchemy in the work of Bianca Bondi
Coactivity: Between the Human and Nonhuman
Unsublime Ecology
Eco-Tripping: Ant Farm’s Environmental Media
Between Two Bookends: Ecology and the Work of Mark Dion
Alexander Calder Centro Botín / Santander
Each “Calder Story” at Centro Botín is an untold one. More than eighty mobiles, maquettes, and architectural projects are on…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
CRACK UP – CRACK DOWN 33rd Ljubljana Biennial
What is the place of comedy in a groundless world? Amid the volatility of contemporary society, where claims of truth,…
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Mia Habib TBA Festival / Portland
Alex Ayed B7L9 / Tunis
Alexander Calder Centro Botín / Santander
Sara Cwynar Blitz / Valletta
Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of CalArts Kestnergesellschaft / Hannover
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
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…
The “Homespun Spinelessness Cult” of nabbteeri
The task of representing Finland, Norway, and Sweden — or the Nordic countries — at the 58th International Art Exhibition…
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…