Notes from aboard the MS Trollfjord
For the second year in a row, the Hurtigruten cruise ship line has hosted Coast Contemporary, a four-day symposium and…
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12th Gwangju Biennale: Imagined Borders
It is no secret that art biennials are at an impasse, given the recurring and vaguely political frameworks associated with…
33rd Bienal de São Paulo: Affective Affinities
Not much info was made public in advance of the 33rd São Paulo Bienal’s opening. Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro was named chief…
AB6 / Athens Biennale 2018
A naked yellow body, head wrapped in bright orange fabric, clasping an enormous bamboo crucifix, spills out of the former…
Ghost:2561 / Bangkok
Instead of wall text, the inaugural Ghost:2561 — a new video and performance triennial in Bangkok curated by New York–based…
steirischer herbst ’18 / Graz
The Popular Front was a reckless attempt to unite different political forces in the 1930s against the rise of fascism.…
NEMOSKVA International Travelling Symposium NCCA and ROSIZO / (Omsk / Tomsk / Novosibirsk / Krasnoyarsk)
The institutionalization of “art from the regions” is, arguably, the main tendency in Russian cultural policy. If private capital has…
The Planetary Garden. Cultivating Coexistence Manifesta 12 / Palermo
Palermo, June 16, 5:25 PM. Three men at the corner of Via Degli Schioppettieri recite in steady voices, “I wonder…
FRONT International / Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art
The theme of the first FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art is “An American City.” Like most art festivals,…
Volcano Extravaganza 2018 / Stromboli
Quod non est in actis, non est in mundo: What is not in the documents is not in the world.…
Earning from Athens?
Last year Art Athina, the more-than-forty-year-old fair of the Hellenic Art Dealers Association, got a last-minute overhaul: two months before…
Liquid City / Bruges Triennial 2018
Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquid Modernity was first published in the year 2000. As described in the text, “modernity” was the natural…
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More / Riga Biennale
In his widely celebrated book Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More, anthropologist Alexei Yurchak describes the paradoxical structure…
The Oil of Tehran
-Hafiz, for your sake, entered this tale- Walk with him, say farewell, he’ll tear the veil. —Khajeh Shamseddin Mohammad Hafiz…
A Private Journey through Art Monte Carlo
By 2026, more than sixteen thousand millionaires are expected to call Monaco their home (according to Knight Frank’s 2017 Monaco…
SP-Arte / São Paulo
In addition to the São Paulo Bienal in September, the annual art fair in April has established a second platform…