Labor Lost: Okwui Enwezor’s Artworld Biennale
Consuming visual art is conspicuously, if oddly, social. You are inherently distracted, aware of watching and being watched, even, perhaps especially, in the darkened…
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A Future Never Sought: Okwui Enwezor’s 56th Venice Biennale
Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds. – W. E. Gladstone’s diary, 1868…
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The Many Violences of Adel Abdessemed
At first glance, Adel Abdessemed’s charcoal drawings of soldiers do not seem to be up to much. They are large, certainly: two meters in…
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