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…
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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…
One-Day Assembly on Global Asias: (Re)Building Worlds in Venice
After its debut at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, the One-Day Assembly on Global Asias returned this year with…
An end to the extravaganza? A quick look at museum exhibitions in Paris during Paris + par Art Basel 2023
I wrote last year that Paris was blooming, offering a vast museum program whose sheer scale seemed to have been…
Twilight Oddities, Real Nightmares, Queer Errands, and Other Daydreams: The Gothenburg Biennial
What perspectives shall we adopt; filters shall we use; mindsets shall we construe so as to usher a crowd of…
We Call It Avant-Pop: The Ever-Changing C2C Festival
“I love that there are only two big stages,” said Marina Herlop. “That way you can see everything that’s going…
Falling Back into the Future of Old: Frieze London 2023
“The Academy is too large and too vulgar. Whenever I have gone there, there have either been so many people…
No need for FOMO! Art Basel Week Roundup
This year it seemed that everyone arrived in Zurich during the days before Art Basel, although calling the event “Zurich…
Tono Festival Mexico City
Mexico City has long been one of the world’s most dynamic art capitals, though its performance scene of late has…
Expo Chicago. The Centers Do Not Hold
As the sirens of fire engines wail and the traffic drones monotonously in the background, Theaster Gates, who is dressed…
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…
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…