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…
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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…
Jiwa / Jakarta Bienniale 2017
Jiwa (soul) is the conceptual framework behind the latest Jakarta Biennale, which proposes to place performance at center stage. Led…
a good neighbour / 15th Istanbul Biennial
Curated for the first time by two artists, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, the fifteenth Istanbul Biennial may surprise those…
Volcano Extravaganza 2017 / Naples, Stromboli
At a summer home tucked a stone’s throw away from the island’s humble center, Stromboli, Roberto Rossellini’s masterpiece, is projected…
Learning from Athens Documenta 14 / Kassel
Is Greece a metaphor? Two months after the opening of Documenta 14 in Athens, the Kassel edition followed with the…
Fuori Biennale / 57th Venice Biennale
Hanging from the vestibule of the Central Pavilion, and disrupting the white rationality of the entry colonnade, is Sam Gilliam’s…
Art Athina / Athens
By the second day, the octopus had begun to stink. Exhibiters were grumbling. It lay rotting on the floor, hooked…
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…