As a child, I often looked up: at adults, at Christ on the cross in church, the tops of buildings, the clouds. I dreamt of gliding through the air like a bird, wandering in the wild…[read on]
Graffiti is an art form of the people. From the moment aluminum spray paint was patented in 1951 for use on steam radiators, the readymade canisters have been co-opted to create…[read on]
An amusing anecdote told by Pamela Z at this year’s Maerzmusik summed up the latest iteration of the festival quite well. Over 10 years ago, she created a version…[read on]
The building of all empires requires art and, much like the global franchise that is the Guggenheim, Refik Anadol’s generative AI artwork arrives alongside a new form of empire…[read on]
‘Aber hier leben? Nein danke. Surrealismus + Antifaschismus’ at Munich’s Lenbachhaus is a historically illuminating exhibition, which carries a great deal of suggestiveness for…[read on]
Libuše Jarcovjáková is a queer Czech photographer who, over the course of her career, has seamlessly merged her personal life with her photographic practice…[read on]
Ludwig Wittgenstein used the rabbit-duck illusion to observe the interdependent relationship between perception (what is seen immediately) and interpretation (what is seen…[read on]
In an ambitious effort to set the historical record straight, a sprawling group exhibition at Kunsthalle Bega in Timișoara primarily examines Romanian colonial projects and tendencies…[read on]
Video art can be a tricky medium—it requires an attention span that isn’t always easy to access in art-viewing settings. So when I emerged from Mudam Luxembourg’s…[read on]
Louisa Gagliardi does not paint, as much as she creates paintings. Describing her practice as “drawing” on her computer falls short of defining what she is really doing…[read on]
Sam Youkilis is a photographer from New York who takes an anthropological approach to short form video. Using his iPhone, Youkilis creates a series of vignettes of his travels…[read on]
Ryoji Ikeda’s exhibition at the Estonian National Museum in Tartu sees his creative edge sharpened to a local focus, tackling Estonia’s history and culture…[read on]