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…
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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…
ART X Lagos Shines a Spotlight on Growing Market for NFTs in Africa
The NFT (non-fungible token) craze that has taken hold of the globe is similarly making its way through Africa. At…
“Sensing Nature / Quand la nature ressent” 17th MOMENTA Biennale de l’image Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal
“In our time of environmental disaster and urgent demands for social justice, we need to acknowledge our senses and talk…
“Rites of Passage”: The 4th Oxygen Biennial, Tbilisi
A Soviet-era electrical plant by the Kura River in Tbilisi has turned into the backstage of a liminal dramaturgy. It…
Future: (Is) Now What? A Citywide Roundup of Art Basel 2021
It can be hard to organize one’s thoughts while trying to digest such a vast range of artworks across multiple…
“The Same Sea”: The First Helsinki Biennial
The biennial is a “hegemonic machine”1 (Oliver Marchart) intended to “mediate the local, national, and transnational”2 while being linked to…
Berlin Gallery Weekend 2021: Stalked by Melancholia and Lamentation
“January 21, a country announces its first case of a virus.” “January 23, a city is sealed off to prevent…
The 2021 Verbier Art Summit: A Contemporary Success Lays Bare the Problems of the Future
Were 2021 to be any other year, unburdened by the prohibitive restrictions of travel that keep much of the world…