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Postcard: ‘Generation – 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland’

By Chris Fite-WassilakPerth Train Station. Photograph: Chris Fite-Wassilak.‘Which way are you voting on 18th September?’ The man behind me is recounting an encounter with Scandinavian colleagues who...

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Postcard from Dublin

By Gemma TiptonEva Rothschild, 'Someone and Someone', 2009, installation view as part of 'Vestibule', Merrion Square, Dublin. Aluminium, enamel paint, 4.5 x 4 m. Courtesy: the artist, Stuart...

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Juan Manuel Echavarría and The War We Have Not Seen

By Elizabeth Rush and Juan Manuel EchavarríaEl Testigo (The Witness), 2011Since Juan Manuel Echavarría’s birth in 1947, Colombia has not known a single year of peace. The largest and most consistent...

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Postcard from Dublin

By Gemma TiptonEva Rothschild, 'Someone and Someone', 2009, installation view as part of 'Vestibule', Merrion Square, Dublin. Aluminium, enamel paint, 4.5 x 4 m. Courtesy: the artist, Stuart...

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Postcard from Amsterdam: a unique cultural collaboration

By Vivian Sky RehbergFouad Bouchoucha's installation 'Landscape', 2014, as part of 'Trouw Invites… Palais de Tokyo'‘Trouw Invites…’ is an initiative of Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum and De Verdieping,...

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Borealis Festival 2014

By Jennifer HiggieGerhard Staebler, Change, 2014, performance documentation, Borealis Festival, BergenFlying into Bergen is not like flying into London. As the plane loses altitude the colourful wooden...

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Postcard from Rome: Teatro Valle

By Mike WatsonTeatro Valle, RomeIn Rome, few things are as constant as its near incessant heat. As for governments, both on a national as well as local level, the only thing that seems constant about...

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The Black Cultural Archives: An Independent Intervention

By Hansi Momodu-GordonAerial view of Black Cultural Archives, Windrush Square, Brixton. Photograph: Edmund SumnerThree thousand people gathered in Windrush Square, Brixton, to celebrate the opening of...

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Postcard from Edinburgh Art Festival

By Cicely FarrerShilpa Gupta, Where do I end and you begin, 2012, neon, installation view at The Old Royal High School, photo: Stuart ArmittDuring a panel discussion on themes of community and the...

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Ger van Elk 1941–2014

By Bart van der Heide_Ger van Elk, The Co-Founder of the Word O.K.- Marken, 1971/1999_The influence of Dutch artist Ger van Elk on the burgeoning stages of conceptual art in the 1960s remains...

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Was Malevich an absurdist?

By Noemi SmolikKazimir Malevich, Self Portrait, 1908-1910, State Tretyakov Gallery, MoscowKazimir Malevich, who is the subject of a retrospective at London’s Tate Modern until 26 October, is generally...

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Nevin Aladağ: Art Space Pythagorion, Samos, Greece

By Tom MortonBeeline, 2014, installation view at Art Space Pythagorion, SamosLike many of the Greek islands in the Eastern Aegean, Samos plays host to two very different types of visitor. By day,...

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A Three-Level Monster

By Tom NewthQue ta joie demeure (Joy of Man's Desiring), (2014)Tom Newth interviews Canadian filmmaker Denis Côté about documentary cinema and his latest film ‘Que ta joie demeure’ (Joy of Man’s...

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We Can See Each Other On WeChat

By Carol Yinghua LuPro-democracy protest in Hong Kong, 2014On the evening of 26 September, I was invited to speak in the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai as part of their lecture series on the...

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CITIZENFOUR: An interview with Laura Poitras

By Craig HubertEdward Snowden in CITIZENFOUR (Laura Poitras, 2014)The story of Edward Snowden’s massive leak of confidential National Security Agency (NSA) documents in June 2013 is a story we know...

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Brighton Photo Biennial: Communities, Collectives & Collaboration

By Sara KnelmanMartin Parr, 'Rusholme. Manchester. England. 1972', included in 'Magnum Photos: One Archive Three Views', De La Warr Pavilion © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos The fifteen or so shows (plus...

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Folkestone Triennial: A Walking Tour

By Nick WarnerFolkestone, 2014. All photographs taken by the authorMarching eagerly out of Folkestone train station on a beautifully overcast Sunday morning, triennial map in hand and umbrella under...

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BFI London Film Festival 2014

By Dan KidnerJean-Luc Godard, Goodbye to Language, 2014. All images courtesy: BFI London Film FestivalThis year’s London Film Festival offered the perfect opportunity to take stock of the state of...

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The Walerian Borowczyk Collection

By Agata PyzikWalerian Borowczyk, La Bête (The Beast, 1975), film still. All images courtesy: Daniel BirdHe was a Polish designer who trained as a sculptor at the Academy of Arts in postwar Krakow. He...

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Postcard from Warsaw Gallery Weekend

By Krzysztof KosciuczukPiotr Lakomy's 'Tomorrow Will Be Smaller' at the temporary space of Galeria Stereo, WarsawOver the last few years the Warsaw Gallery Weekend (WGW) has grown from a string of...

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