“For A Dreamer of Houses” Dallas Museum of Art / Colorado
Raymond Carver’s 1981 short story “Why Don’t You Dance?” centers on an anonymous grief-stricken and alcohol-soaked man who, in mourning…
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The Curatorial Gaze. Episode II: Index of Household Consumption1
“She jumps from the second floor to avoid being beaten.”2 Chased by her drunken lover, with a blood alcohol level…
“Potential Worlds 1: Planetary Memories” Migros Museum / Zurich
The environmental exhibition exploring humanity’s impact on the natural world has become something of a rite of passage for museums…
Danh Vo “Danh Vo oV hnaD” The National Museum of Art / Osaka
Danh Vo’s much-anticipated first institutional solo exhibition in Japan finally opened at the National Museum of Art after the Japanese…
“Resistance of the Sleepers” UCCA Dune / Beijing
What else is spreading along with the virus? Sleep problems. Widespread lockdowns have blurred the boundaries between work and rest,…
Olafur Eliasson: Planetary Metabolism and the Charismatic Landscapes of the Cryosphere
A series of thirty photographic prints are hung in an evenly spaced grid on a white wall in London. The…
Sveta Mordovskaya “Monuments” Cherish / Genève
Around the world, anti-racist protesters are toppling symbols of colonialism such as the statue of the slave trader Edward Colston,…
Tomás Saraceno — How to Entangle the Universe in a Spider Web
Darkness hung in the trees, forming a thick mass together with the humid air, enveloping everything. The only features discernible…
Theodor Ringborg / Director at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
ON VIEW is a printed and an online section in which Flash Art invites prominent figures of the art world…
Peter Saul “Crime and Punishment” The New Museum / New York
Bearing organs, faces, fluids, and copious energy, Peter Saul’s paintings have a strange life of their own. If the paintings…
Me. You. Us. Them.
Have you wondered why the inside of your head feels so strange these days? We think you’re morphing into something…
João Laia / Chief Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
Jenna Sutela “NO NO NSE NSE” Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway Through August 29, 2020 Can the world be understood in ways…
We Are All in This Together. Aren’t We?
It is late April in 2020, and already I have been in isolation for almost two months. Following the “unfortunate”…
Zoé Whitley / Director at Chisenhale Gallery, London
ON VIEW is a printed and an online section in which Flash Art invites prominent figures of the art world…
“Alpha Crucis – Contemporary African Art” Astrup Fearnley Museet / Oslo
“We originate in loss. Our lost ones line the sea. We need to get back to them — become amphibious…
Rest as Revolution: The Speculative Nature of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Figurations
Race, resistance, rage, rebellion — words that are presently etched into the forefronts of everyone’s mind. As cities burn, glistening…