Risking Pop-Solipsism, Moyra Davey Gets Earnest in Berlin
A few weeks back, as autumn arrived to Berlin, I listened to a thirty year-old curator explain that she was leaving art to study…
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The Strangeness of the Everyday: Skulptur Projekte Münster’s Deep Grey
Not an auspicious start. I stood under the regularly irregular German rain in front of one of Skulptur Projekte’s posters, annoyed by what might…
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“Made in Germany”: Can the Artworld Have a Nation?
Like exotic flowers, international art exhibitions bloom in Berlin, Kassel, and Münster every two, five, or ten years, helping to establish Germany, alongside Venice,…
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Drones, by Design: Mahwish Chishty and the Politics of Representation
What’s at stake – aesthetically and politically – when we imagine the drone as an emblem for contemporary society? Consider the range of artistic…
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The 11th Gwangju Biennale’s Overreach: “What Does Art Do?”
By asking what art “does,” the curators of the eleventh Gwangju Biennale betray a palpable anxiety about whether the field in which we work…
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DIS Collective’s Apathetic and Ironic Berlin Biennial Underestimates its Audience
This year’s Berlin Biennale title, The Present in Drag, spells out clearly what we can expect. The aim of the show is to reflect…
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Flickering Insight from the Whitechapel’s “Electronic Superhighway”
“The internet does not exist,” wrote Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle in e-flux journal’s critical anthology of the same name. Perhaps…
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The Most Important Art Essays of the Year
This time last year, my editor asked me to put together a list of the most important essays of 2014, and I drew a blank….
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The Future of Online Arts Publishing: A Roundtable with artnet News, Momus, and Temporary Art Review
Everything about publishing is changing, including art criticism and news. What sort of art coverage we consume, how we consume it, and on what…
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To Cut and To Swipe: Understanding Hito Steyerl Through “HOW NOT TO BE SEEN”
The complex work of contemporary artist, media theorist, and filmmaker Hito Steyerl often pivots on a surprisingly simple tactic – wordplay. Consistently, across both…
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