Nikita Gale “NOSEBLEED” Petzel Gallery / New York

Performativity is essential to Nikita Gale’s transdisciplinary practice, which revolves around a perversely anthropological interest in political spectacle, with its…
Performativity is essential to Nikita Gale’s transdisciplinary practice, which revolves around a perversely anthropological interest in political spectacle, with its…
As I leafed through the exhibition catalogue, carefully examining each page in search of clues that might help me better…
What does George Baselitz want to confess? What are his sins? These philosophically heavy questions are raised by the title…
Sometimes, at least as a young person, you’re confronted with canonical artists that you have never heard of before,…
Let’s start with a confession: the first time I watched David Lynch’s Twin Peaks (1990–91), I couldn’t sleep for months.…
Succes in the YBAs era was undeniably tied to the scandals caused by their exhibitions. However, for artists of the…
In the dimly lit confines of St. Chads, teetering on the edge of demolition, artist Johnny Costi unearths the raw…
On a wet, rainy day in the suspended city, approaching MUDAM is like entering another stratosphere. Immersed in a beautiful,…
Marina Abramović broke yet another barrier last year and became the first woman to have a solo retrospective in the…
Belgian artist Jef Geys’s retrospective exhibition “You don’t see what you think you see” at Wiels, Brussels, is dictated by…
“Cyberspace involves a reversal of the current mode of interaction with computerized information. At present, such information is external to…
Upon entering the ground floor of VI, VII, in Oslo, one can hear the underlying crackle of a vinyl recording…
The trench coat — a nearly universal item of clothing prized for both its fashion and functionality — was born…
The first time I saw a dead animal was when I was six. I was playing around a car, and…
The Italian feminist thinker Silvia Federici once wrote that “the human body and not the steam engine, and not even…
French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan traveled in circles that often overlapped with the art world. He mingled with its…