Beware Geeks Buying GIFs
In Greek mythology, Momus is the figure who embodies satire. Cancelled from the company of the gods for being a…
William Kherbek
Berlin Gallery Weekend 2021: Stalked by Melancholia and Lamentation
“January 21, a country announces its first case of a virus.” “January 23, a city is sealed off to prevent…
Episode II. The Firewall Next Time: Belief, Power, and AI
“The Uncanny Valley” is Flash Art’s new digital column offering a window on the developing field of artificial intelligence and…
Angst, Distance, Uncertainty and Buoyance / Gallery Weekend Berlin & Berlin Art Week 2020
In other years, the carnivalesque quality of Berlin Art Week, as well as Gallery Weekend Berlin, was among its defining…
Hito Steyerl “The Tower” Thaddaeus Ropac / London
Hito Steyerl’s work The Tower takes its name from a real-life endeavor so bizarre it had to be made into…
Ragna Bley & Inger Ekdahl Malmö Konsthall
Abstract painting has a long history in Sweden. Indeed, modern abstraction may have been first manifested in the painting of…
“Museum” MMK / Frankfurt
Titling an exhibition “Museum” is nothing if not an ambitious gesture. At a moment when art institutions are being rigorously…
Michael E. Smith Modern Art / London
Writing in “The Spirit of Things,” the critic Barbara M. Benedict considers the rise of consumer society in relation to…
Beth Letain Peres Projects / Berlin
Last words may seem like an odd way to begin a review, but while visiting Beth Letain’s exhibition “ultrapath” the…