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 our contemporary moment…[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 when one is aware of the context)…[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 underground space…[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]
“All things are alter’d, nothing is destroyed,” writes John Dryden, translating Odin’s ‘Metamorphosis.’ Or M. NourbeSe Philip, who borrows this epigraph from Odin in her book…[read on]
Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra’s latest show, ‘Still — Moving Portraits 1992 – 2024,’ provides a rich overview of the photographer’s work, which centers around states of transition…[read on]
Nan Goldin’s ‘This Will Not End Well’ at Neue Nationalgalerie is an exercise in confrontation. Comprising six distinct slideshows spanning five decades…[read on]
