Article by Jess Harrison // Feb. 19, 2018
New York-based artist Brian Whiteley caused massive controversy when he anonymously installed ‘The Legacy Stone’ – better known as the ‘Donald Trump Tombstone’ – in Central Park on the morning of…[read on]
Article by Jess Harrison // Feb. 9, 2018
Taking place at Trump Tower and the Palace of Poland, Austrian-American artist Rainer Ganahl’s play ‘Ubu Trump’ employs an eclectic cabinet of characters, including President Donald J. Trump, Ivanka…[read on]
Article by Jack Radley // Feb. 1, 2018
Israeli-born, Berlin-based artist Dani Gal’s most recent film, ‘Hegemon’, undermines the assurance of American power and military morality. Gal juxtaposes pedestrian visuals of one day in the nation’s capital…[read on]
Article by Adela Kim in Washington D.C. // Jan. 30, 2018
At first, the Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C. seems like any other museum. Monumental white-marble pillars sprawl across the entire complex; large overheard glass panels emit natural light, illuminating the…[read on]
Article by Rebecca Partridge in Berlin // Jan. 23, 2018
For more than two decades, Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead’s conceptual practice has spanned across video, sculpture, sound, installation and the internet, the duo often utilises live data and/or archive materials…[read on]
Article by Nat Marcus in Berlin // Jan. 16, 2018
Beg I first attended ‘Altbau’, an installation by Alvaro Urbano currently on view at ChertLüdde, because of a violet hue in a photo selected for the vernissage’s Facebook event. The work could’ve been a print or a painting,…[read on]
Article by Jack Radley // Jan. 13, 2018
How do we heal our wombs? This investigation is central to the work of Tabita Rezaire a Johannesburg-based video artist, Kemetic/Kundalini Yoga teacher, and digital healing activist…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Jan. 08, 2018
2017 was the year that the truth about sexual misconduct within the cultural sphere broke the headlines—and not just with high profile individual cases like Harvey Weinstein and Artforum’s Knight Landesman being…[read on]
Article by Jack Radley in Berlin // Jan. 05, 2018
‘Evidentiary Realism’ at Nome Gallery uncovers a new wave of realism, one that divulges the underbelly of evidence from larger social systems. The exhibition is curated by Paolo Cirio—an artist who…[read on]
Article by Mitch Speed in Berlin // Dec. 29, 2017
The desire to become a machine belongs to a deceptively proud artistic tradition. Often helpful, machines are also agents of alienation; they usurp our jobs, manipulate our desires, direct our social…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Dec. 26, 2017
Erica Scourti’s practice mixes performance art, autobiographical discourse, and code. Her ‘Empathy Deck’ is literally a bot with feelings: it responds to its Twitter followers with custom-made cards specially…[read on]
Article by Ilyn Wong in Berlin // Dec. 22, 2017
In 2015, a 28-year-old black woman named Sandra Bland was arrested after being pulled over for making an illegal lane change. Three days later, she was found dead in her Texas jail cell. This story, as well as her…[read on]
