Time-Based, Place-Specific: TONO 2025
For its third edition, Mexico City’s TONO Festival continued its sure-footed approach to showcasing time-based media art: performance, dance, sound,…
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Collaboration/Commodification: Condo 2025
This year’s installment of Condo London denotes the project’s seventh edition in its city of origin, with forty-nine international galleries…
Art Genève, 13th edition: A Platform for International Art and Local Institutions
Over its thirteen editions, Art Genève has steadily secured its place within the broad art fair circuit, opting for a…
Out of Joint: “Horror Patriae” / steirischer herbst 2024
On the train to Graz for my first ever visit to steirischer herbst, I find myself captivated by the intriguing…
The 15th Dak’Art Biennale of Contemporary African Art: A Journey through Atlantis
Postponed for six months due to political turmoil last spring, the fifteenth edition of the Biennale of Contemporary African Art…
Gods Gather at the Temple of Avant Pop: C2C Festival 2024
I bump into Bill Kouligas and Gabber Eleganza behind the Stone Island stage at C2C Festival in Turin. Yaeji is…
The Age of Sobriety? A Glance at Institutional Exhibitions during Art Basel Paris 2024
During Art Basel Paris this year, the big deal in the city was the return of the fair to the…
Unsound 2024: Music Is a Necessary Political Act
Lankum’s 2023 song “Go Dig My Grave” revisits an old ballad sung by Jean Ritchie on the 1963 album Jean…
Santozeum: Elusive Lightness on a Greek Island
The sunsets of Santorini are famous. The crescent-shaped Mediterranean island, sculpted by volcanic eruptions, faces westward and slopes toward the…
Berlin Art Week 2024
Someone told me that Berlin Art Week has long been regarded as the cultural marker that bids farewell to summer…
Vienna Contemporary 2024: Less Hustle, More Art
Messe Wien Halle D, the shiny new home of Vienna Contemporary, provided a perfect shelter from the torrential rains that…
Glasgow International: Still Caring
How can one body hold so much art? By body I also mean city. I recently read somewhere that our…
Eternally Gasping: Art Basel 2024
Griselda Pollock once wrote of standing before Bernini’s statue of Apollo and Daphne (1622–25) and gasping. Without warning her psychic…
Dressed to Impress: Show Hopping at London Gallery Weekend 2024
As Oscar Wilde stated in An Ideal Husband (1895), “To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep…
Kuboraum and Terraforma: Two days of avant-garde music beyond genres in Venice
Valentina Magaletti was supposed to take the stage together with Rome-based Italian electroacoustic duo known as I Canzonieri. However,…
Careening through the 2024 Venice Biennale
Sheepish admission: despite living in an adjacent country, I’d never attended the Biennale di Venezia before, even though it’s a…