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…
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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…
Gallery Weekend Beijing
Themes of contemporary urban structure and the human condition are the main subjects of the many exhibitions on display at…
Transmediale "face value" / HKW Berlin
Long ago, literary and art critics observed a parallel between artistic representation and the monetary system. If naturalism conformed to…
IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam 2018
The past decade has seen a significant rise in the appetite for artist films on the European film festival circuit.…
Art Stage Singapore 2018
Art Stage Singapore, which espoused the lofty goal of representing a regional identity with its 2017 slogan “We are Asia,”…
Verbier Art Summit 2018
Just as Las Vegas seeks to rebrand itself by investing in gourmet dining and smart clubbing instead of musty gambling…
Condo 2018 / London
Partial, if temporary, ownership can be a welcome invitation. It suits, then, that Condo London — an initiative that sees…
Outside ART021 and West Bund / Shanghai Art Week
Throughout the week of Art021 and West Bund (the two fairs trumpeting Shanghai’s unofficial art week), I found myself guiding…