#323 Nov 2018–Jan 2019, Features
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Feminist: On Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago had been Judy Chicago for five years when she published her autobiography Through the Flower: My Struggle as…
#323 Nov 2018–Jan 2019, Features
I Am My Body: On Judy Chicago’s Birth Project¹
I Am My Body A thump, thump, thump opens the 1980 movie Right Out of History: The Making of Judy…
#323 Nov 2018–Jan 2019, Features
Narrative Excess: Judy Chicago’s Work in Text
“I feel as though I’m still not writing. I foresee and want a way of speaking that’s more fanciful, more…
#323 Nov 2018–Jan 2019, Features
Plunging into the Void: Judy Chicago’s Images
I first saw Judy Chicago’s Birth Trinity (1983) and Birth Tear/Tear (1982) when visiting the artist’s studio in Belen, New…
John Knight The Intermission / Athens
After the global financial crisis in 2008, the G20 Summit — the annual meeting of leaders from countries with the…
Andra Ursuta Ramiken Crucible / New York
While Ramiken Crucible’s space is undergoing renovation, Andra Ursuta has taken the opportunity to exhibit new work in an empty…
Buck Ellison Balice Hertling / Paris
While gender stereotypes, particularly masculinity, are lately being called into question, the young photographer Buck Ellison explores advertising’s gift for…
Art Basel Miami 2019
Midway through my three-day stay in Miami, following a visit to the Institute of Contemporary Art in the Design District,…
#328 Nov 2019–Jan 2020, Conversation
“I’m nothing, I’m no one, I’m everyone, I’m dead!” Aria Dean
Crises of language dominated the last years of both theoretical and artistic research of Aria Dean (b. Los Angeles, 1993).…
#328 Nov 2019–Jan 2020, Features
Negative Space, Objects in the Absence of Performance
As art institutions adopt performance-based practices, artists, curators, and archivists are faced with new considerations about how to classify and…
#328 Nov 2019–Jan 2020, Conversation
Fantasies and Dissonance: A Conversation with Anne Bean
Since the late 1960s, British artist Anne Bean has been singularly dedicated to performance and relational art that exists in…
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Oslo Biennial 2019
The Venice Biennale opened in the same week as the first edition of the OsloBiennalen. But while the former will…
If the Snake / Okayama Art Summit
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#328 Nov 2019–Jan 2020, Reviews
Kara Walker Sprüth Magers / London
Coinciding with the artist’s Tate Modern Turbine Hall commission, Sprüth Magers London presents the first retrospective of Kara Walker’s films.…
#328 Nov 2019–Jan 2020, Reviews
Michael E. Smith Modern Art / London
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Reimagining Weimar Dance: An Interview with Alison Curtis Jones
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Moving in the In-Between: Tarik Kiswanson
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Forsythe’s Immaculate Choreography
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A Performa 19 commission, Cécilia Bengolea and Michèle Lamy’s metabolic live performance before we die births a kinetic pageant of…
Kia LaBeija: Attenuated Iconographies
A live performance co-commissioned by Performance Space New York for Performa 19, Kia LaBeija’s Untitled, The Black Act generates an opulent,…
Ed Atkins: Alchemies of Incantation
A Performa 19 commission, Ed Atkins’s A Catch Upon the Mirror is a live performance that manifests under a different…
When Body Horror Meets Fairy Tale: The Films of Marianna Simnett
In her legendary 1991 essay “The Cyborg Manifesto,” Donna Haraway described a world that many of us then dismissed as…
Sharing space: Meriem Bennani on Teleportation, Babycouple Adults, and Postcolonial Morocco
Combining an impressive range of imagery drawn from YouTube, reality television, music videos, cartoons, documentary footage, and self-crafted animations, the…
Elysia Crampton: Beyond the horizon of coloniality
“We come from a heavily colonized country where they adopted Christianity. I saw the way [my grandmother] navigated her relationship…
The Machinery of Identity: Candice Breitz
Candice Breitz says she hasn’t slept all week. Yet, as I visit the artist in her studio in a long-gentrified…
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Reimagining Weimar Dance: An Interview with Alison Curtis Jones
Kunststrom für Alle: POWER NIGHT at E-WERK Luckenwalde
Moving in the In-Between: Tarik Kiswanson
Crossing Borders, Mobilizing Thought: The Farm in the Cave’s Seven-Hour Performance
Disaffected Bodies: Anne Imhof’s Sex
Forsythe’s Immaculate Choreography
Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done
Full Service by Adam Linder Wattis Institute / San Francisco
“STURTEVANT: MEMES”Freedman Fitzpatrick / Los Angeles
“STURTEVANT: MEMES” at Freedman Fitzpatrick is the artist’s first solo exhibition to be mounted in Los Angeles since her death…
#328 Nov 2019–Jan 2020, Reviews
Marguerite Humeau CLEARING /Brussels
Maguerite Humeau’s earlier exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo and Nottingham Contemporary (2016–17) focused on what allowed the human species…
Cross-Species Communication and Bio-Sensing Art of the 1970s and 80s: A Conversation with Richard Lowenberg
Thinking back on the hallucinogenic American postwar art scene, one envisions that hazy confluence of networks and disciplines native to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
HOMELAND Ordet / Milan
If there is a narrative that dominates degenerate populist and sovereign rhetoric, it is that of the border. Whether based…
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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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
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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
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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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Larry Johnson & Asha Schechter Jenny’s / LA
How To Build a Lagoon with Just a Bottle of Wine / II Lagos Biennial
John Knight The Intermission / Athens
Andra Ursuta Ramiken Crucible / New York
Buck Ellison Balice Hertling / Paris
Janiva Ellis 47 Canal / New York
Chillida Leku Museum / San Sebastián
“STURTEVANT: MEMES”Freedman Fitzpatrick / Los Angeles
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
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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…
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