Elevation 1049: Interstices, Gstaad
Zurich’s art scene was unseasonably busy, so I simply had to miss the first day of the fourth edition of…
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Gigantism in Paris and Other Considerations: A Glance at Institutional Exhibitions in Paris during Paris + par Art Basel
After several years of anxieties, deprivations, and basic fare, it feels as if Paris is back in bloom, offering a…
Lofoten International Art Festival: Fantasmagoriana
The opening weekend of the Lofoten International Art Festival ended not exactly with an éclat, but with a remark that…
Notes on the Spectacle: Terraforma & Nextones 2022
In Latifa Echakhch’s essay titled “The Concert,” written to accompany her contribution to this year’s Swiss Pavilion for the Venice…
It’s Not So Quiet. The Return of Art Basel in June, “Young” Fairs, New Spaces for Exchange, and What’s Most Interesting in the Unexpected Heat of Basel
It seems I am still a long way from regaining a sense of normalcy regarding the passage of time. The…
IRL: Orsolina28 and the Texture of Gesture of Ohad Naharin
I tend not to be too excited about Monferrato, a hilly area in northwestern Italy about an hour outside Turin.…
Zurich Art Weekend
The first full-fledged Zurich art weekend since 2019, with its bacchanalia of dinners and brunches, might have taken place during…
Gallery Weekend Berlin 2022 (and Beyond)
Upon moving from nihilist Moscow to law-abiding Berlin amid the fourth wave of coronavirus, I felt that Germany’s strict hygiene…
Vestigial Trends and Anticipated Futures: Chicago and the Return of the Expo Art Fair
This week marked the return of a live Expo Chicago, which had been on indefinite hiatus like so many other…
artgenève 10th Edition: Always On the Mark
The regional fair always receives unfair derision when compared with the Basels, Miamis, and Friezes on the art world’s dance…
An End, a Duration, a Rebirth: Failure and Levity at the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2021
In the world there is a single yawn that continues by contagion to spread in search of another yawn to…
“Once Upon Another Time…”: 13th Kaunas Biennial / Various locations, Kaunas, Lithuania
Read in sequence, the names of the Kaunas Biennial’s main locations could compose the map of a role-playing video game…
Reality Focus: Miami 2021
PDFs and OVRs came back to three-dimensional life in Miami this December. Although there were more than enough parties, launch…
Array Collective Shine at this Year’s Edition of the Turner Prize
When shortlisted for the 2021 Turner Prize, the Belfast-based Array Collective immediately had the idea to realize something that could…
Is this The End? Notes from Art Basel Miami Beach 2021
I’ve always suspected there was a clear philosophical through line, linked by the vicissitudes of the absurd, from Kierkegaard to…
"Eclipse": 7th Athens Biennale
Seeing science as a mystical process — a process that has to do not only with deductive reasoning, but with…