Art Athina / Athens
By the second day, the octopus had begun to stink. Exhibiters were grumbling. It lay rotting on the floor, hooked…
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Viva Arte Viva / 57th Venice Biennale
At the Sterling Pavilion I find a copy of Representations of the Intellectual by Edward W. Said (Vintage Books, New…
National Pavilions / 57th Venice Biennale
“Art is not the way to change the world, not the place to change the world, otherwise we would know…
More than Documenta / Athens
A city associated with economic troubles and reverence for ancient culture, Athens isn’t known as an epicenter for contemporary art.…
Condemned to Roam, Without Repose / Documenta 14
“We will fail. But we will try.” Wandering through the streets of Athens, I read these words in the much-leafed-through…
Whitney Biennial 2017 / New York
Hanging from the high ceiling of the Whitney’s glassy ground-floor lobby are the embroidered textiles of filmmaker and artist Cauleen…
Condo / London
Condo, the brainchild of Vanessa Carlos of Carlos/Ishikawa, is back to liven up an otherwise quiet moment in London’s art…
Amsterdam Art Weekend
The most recent edition of Amsterdam Art Weekend featured more than fifty official participants alongside many more satellite pop-ups around…
Why Not Ask Again / 11th Shanghai Biennale
In the Chinese philosophical system known as feng shui, literally wind and water, qi, the metaphysical force of unity, is…
Culture in Chaos Unsound Festival / Krakow
There’s more to Unsound Festival’s theme of “Dislocation” than mirroring the name of this year’s controversial Berlin Biennale curators, the…
Le Grand Balcon / La Biennale de Montréal
Montreal, 1967: in celebration of the Canadian Centennial, a world’s fair representing sixty-two nations not only blessed the city with…
A Season of Girls / Toronto International Film Festival
People in Toronto are looking at girls. The girls are being digitally projected onto giant screens, where they walk around…
Incerteza Viva / 32nd Bienal de São Paulo
I’d seen the artist list, read the press release and scribbled a couple questions on the outbound flight. It was…
Reporting from the Front Architecture Biennale 2016 / Venice
The theme of this year’s Architecture Biennale, “Reporting from the Front,” focuses on the tangible effects architects can have on…
Volcano Extravaganza 2016 Fiorucci Art Trust / Stromboli
From Homer to James Joyce, the peripatetic journey of Ulysses underlied “I Will Go Where I Don’t Belong,” the sixth…
Uncountable Youth / Moscow International Biennale for Young Art
While state-run art institutions in Russia experience uncertain times due to funding cuts and the dismantling of existing infrastructures, the…