Notes on Venice Biennale
A tale of a Nose Everyone talks of the high life, money, carousing and non-stop parties of Venice. I love…
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Is There a Lot to Understand?
Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colorists are epic poets. — Charles Baudelaire In an interview published in March 2011…
The Scottish Connection
Figurative painting in Britain over the past two decades is a story of fragmentation, of individual accomplishment that has never…
Remembering Okwui Enwezor: Intense Proximity Triennial, a conversation with Rahma Khazam
Rahma Khazam: “Intense Proximity” is the title of the triennial you are curating at Palais de Tokyo and other venues,…
Ilya & Emilia Kabakov
There have always been artists who required us to do extra homework to be ready for the full intellectual effect…
Matthew Day Jackson
Nathalie du Pasquier
Molto grigio con blu is one of a series of paintings done between 2001 and 2003 that mainly depicts glass…
Painting It, Touching It
The paintings of Leidy Churchman (b. 1979, US; lives in New York), Van Hanos (b. 1979, US; lives in New…
Wang Xingwei
One day in 2009 Wang Xingwei (b. 1969, China; lives in Beijing) was leaving the pigment shop at the gate…
Blinds and Mirrors
Manifold intentions define portraiture in painting today: to interrogate the portrait’s capacity to frame the dynamics of identity construction and…
Lisa Ruyter
The paintings of Lisa Ruyter (b. 1968, USA; lives in New York) are often described as the collision of Pop…
Double Ancient
Two recent exhibitions have invited a reconsideration of the institutional narratives associated with the scientific discipline of archaeology: Christodoulos Panayiotou’s…
It Looked Like a Universe
It’s easy to feel lost while watching one of Rachel Rose’s videos. Rather than mere confusion, this sense of disorientation…
Self-Portrait and Self
Frances Stark (b. 1967, US; lives in Los Angeles) is constantly introducing herself. “Okay, now I guess I should say…
Specters of the Avant-Garde
One day, guided by a false sense of originality, someone will write the history of the avant-garde as a long…
A Tear in the Fabric of Reality
Connecting and collating people, things and information in a practice that often extends beyond the creation of discreet art objects,…