“The Same Sea”: The First Helsinki Biennial
The biennial is a “hegemonic machine”1 (Oliver Marchart) intended to “mediate the local, national, and transnational”2 while being linked to…
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Jump-Off: Never Lower, Only Higher. Writer and Artist Prizes
A monthly review of global art news from an admittedly fallible viewpoint. The men’s 2020 Olympic high jump final. Gianmarco…
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Global Art Market News, Commentaries, and Critiques. A Column by Stefano Baia Curioni. Everyone can draw. Before we learn how…
Dior – the reinterpretation of the Medallion Chair
Milan – In occasion of the Salone del Mobile, Dior invited seventeen artists to reinterpret ‘the medallion chair’ – emblematic…
Rosa Barba “The Perpetual Now” Neue Nationalegalerie / Berlin
Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina opens with a clear delineation — “Time: Today; Place: Vienna” — before commencing, “But I had to…
Tarek Lakhrissi "My Immortal" Mostyn / Wales
Initially trained with a degree in literature, the French-Algerian artist Tarek Lakhrissi identifies as both an artist and poet, and…
Future Art Ecosystems 2, an online conference hosted by Serpentine Galleries
Join the Serpentine Arts Technologies team and our contributors to Future Art Ecosystems 2 as we discuss the metaverse and…
Heels — a performance by Anna Franceschini and Jojo Gronostay at Casa Flash Art, Milan
Heels – a performance by Anna Franceschini and Jojo Gronostay inspired by Chiara Vecchiarelli, and the new version of Up…
Whitney Museum of American Art presents: Walter Annenberg Lecture: Dawoud Bey
For the past four decades, Dawoud Bey has worked to expand upon what photography can be and the subjects and…
Michael Stevenson "Disproof Does Not Equal Disbelief" KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Berlin
Upon reading the title, I was sure the exhibition would reflect on contemporary conspiracy narratives. But it dives much deeper…
"Never Cross the Same River Twice" space52 / Athens
“Never Cross the Same River Twice”, curated by French-Togolese independent curator Kisito Assangni and Greek-British curator Ariana Kalliga, is a…
Foreclosing on the Future: The Effects of Brexit on Small Galleries
As the art world makes its way over the crest of summer, eagerly anticipating the deluge of fairs to come…
Felix Gonzalez-Torres "The Politics of Relation" MACBA / Barcelona
Lucky reinterpretations do exist. In one of his best-known texts, Walter Benjamin describes Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus (1920) in the…
Haegue Yang and Anne Barlow in conversation at Tate Modern
The context of St Ives and the Cornish landscape, with its ancient archaeological heritage, were an inspiration for Haegue Yang…
Bioethics and World-Making: Creativity in Synthetic Biology, a panel discussion hosted by New Museum
This panel discussion will explore recent developments and artistic collaborations within the field of synthetic biology. In conjunction with her…
Emeka Ogboh "Song of the Union" Edinburgh's Burns Monument
Talbot Rice Gallery and Edinburgh Art Festival are pleased to announce that a new sound installation by artist Emeka Ogboh…