Mark Leckey’s solo show at the Julia Stoschek Foundation, ‘Enter Thru Medieval Wounds,’ feels haunted from the moment you enter (through a medieval wound, of sorts). The air…[read on]
This summer, a TikTok video caused a huge outcry online—at least in my corner of the internet. In the short video, a young German influencer expressed her desire to have grown up…[read on]
“Freedom Forever USA” read the postage stamps, applied like bandaids to affix vast sheets of paper together. The sheets make up a monumental collage by Kara Walker, presented…[read on]
Having emerged from the challenging times of the past few years, we now seem to be hurtling towards a new wave of global fascism. Queer and feminist movements are…[read on]
The four dancers’ movements commence with the vocabulary of the machine. Arms circle and reset, guided by torsos that torque as if wound around an invisible axle. Against the reduced…[read on]
Ghosts drift through our screens, books and memes, from Netflix’s Addams Family reboot ‘Wednesday’ to ‘Nosferatu’ via ‘Caspar.’ While dominant in popular culture,…[read on]
Art Cologne filled the streets with gallerists and collectors at the beginning of November. As one gallery after another opened a new exhibition, the buzz faded just as quickly as…[read on]
Slipping into the attention abyss between two blockbuster art fairs in London and Paris, Artes Mundi 11 opened quietly last month at five venues across Wales…[read on]
During McKenzie Wark’s keynote address at the opening weekend of Oslo’s MUNCH Triennale, she commented on the impossibility of the realist novel as a contemporary form,…[read on]
There is something supernatural in the air as I traverse the echoing corridors of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, advancing toward a constellation of floating ephemera that are…[read on]
There is not much we can do to control processes of weathering. Landscapes and humans are subject to and defenseless against it. It cannot be mimicked, it can only happen…[read on]
The title of Ligia Lewis’ exhibition at Gropius Bau sounds like a drawn-out roar: ‘I’M NOT HERE FORRRRR…’ Equally defiant and weary, performative and paradoxical,…[read on]
