The pedagogical framework espoused by the title of this year’s two-city, quinquennial documenta – Learning from Athens – preemptively suggests an ethnographic or neocolonial…
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The bad news is Brexit. The good news (other than the recent British election) is that British humor, of the nonsense variety, is alive…
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Recent art writing has been marked by a compulsion to cast every subject against an unfolding political crisis. Press releases, reviews, and essays implore…
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International art gatherings are loud affairs, and a trip through documenta 14 in Kassel rewards an ability to separate signal from noise. In a…
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“What, then, is the aura? A strange tissue of space and time: the unique apparition of a distance, however near it may be. To…
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I would like to be like water or rather like milk – completely pourable am right now more like stone but like sand or…
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Every first of May, as people around the world take to the streets to commemorate labor struggles, members of France’s Front National party (FN)…
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When a curator chooses a title as desperately bubbly as Viva Arte Viva, something is clearly amiss. “Live art live!” – the 57th Venice…
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An iconography of flora and fauna local to the Sunset District of San Francisco administers a powerful critique, in Alicia Escott’s current exhibition. Using…
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There’s no greater risk to our species than the one posed by humankind’s impact on the environment. It’s unnerving how familiar this adage has…
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