Oisín Byrne “smell the book” Mount Stuart
In the text accompanying Oisín Byrne’s exhibition “Smell the Book,” writer Daisy Lafarge asks, “How does language make you feel?”1…
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Donald Rodney “Visceral Canker” Spike Island / Bristol
Standing in front of Donald Rodney’s Visceral Canker (1990) — a seemingly living work, which this survey exhibition at Spike…
Eternally Gasping: Art Basel 2024
Griselda Pollock once wrote of standing before Bernini’s statue of Apollo and Daphne (1622–25) and gasping. Without warning her psychic…
George Baselitz “A Confession of My Sins” White Cube Bermondsey / London
What does George Baselitz want to confess? What are his sins? These philosophically heavy questions are raised by the title…
Dora Budor “Again” Nottingham Contemporary
Croatian-born Dora Budor’s inaugural institutional exhibition in the UK, titled “Again,” takes place at Nottingham Contemporary, one of many organizations…
Gray Wielebinski “The Red Sun is High, the Blue Low” ICA / London
The title of Gray Wielebinski’s exhibition at the ICA is derived from the title of a 1978 essay by Samuel…
Ellie Pratt “Taste Maker” South Parade / London
In “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall,” a text by Emma Frith that accompanies Ellie Pratt’s exhibition “Taste Maker,” the author…
On the Violent Absurdity of Borders: Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s 45th Parallel
In the year 2000, not long after the Good Friday peace agreement,1 the Irish artist John Byrne opened the Border…
Is Art Rooted in Life? Documenta, Now
Since its initiation by the architect and painter Arnold Bode in 1955, Documenta has pushed the boundaries of curatorial frameworks…
A Conversation with Alice Rekab about “Family Lines” at Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin
Enlarged images from books, personal photographs, precarious structures in various states, platforms, knotted clay ropes, an array of meshed objects…
Artists at Risk: A Conversation with Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen
Artists at Risk (AR) is a non-profit organization at the intersection of human rights and the arts, with a mandate…
What Will You Do with the Days? An Interview with Sam Keogh
Creased, flattened-out drawings, loose cuttings, intricately labored paintings, slimy melted plastic, industrial-size tunneling machines, the flaccid limbs of figurative characters,…