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Postcard from Finland
By Mike WatsonTuula Närhinen, Baltic Sea Plastique (2013–2014), videostillJust one day into a recent seven day trip to Finland it was evident that my usual line of inquiry in relation to state cultural...
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‘Totally Happy’: Radical Chinese Theatre
By Carol Yinghua LuTian Gebing's "Totally Happy" (2015). Photo: Liu Yin.At a time when social issues seem to be conspicuously missing from artistic and curatorial practice in China, the latest work by...
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Art in ‘Real Time’ at Sequences VII in Reykjavik
By Chris Fite-WassilakStyrmir Örn Guðmundsson, The Death Show (2014), Sequences VII in Reykjavik‘Pipes over here, pipes over there – poison in the water, what are you doing here?’ I wondered the same...
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Postcard from Baku
By Joseph AkelOpened in 2012, the Heydar Aliyev Center, designed by Zaha Hadid, was not without controversy when it first openedDriving into Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, at 1:30 in the morning, a...
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Postcard from Baku
By Joseph AkelThe Heydar Aliyev Center, designed by Zaha Hadid, was not without controversy when it first opened in 2012Driving into Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, at 1:30 in the morning, a line from...
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The New Whitney Museum of American Art: First Impressions
By Dan FoxA view of the new Whitney Museum of American Art from the Hudson River (Photo: Karin Jobst)It may look like a state-of-the-art sanitation plant from the outside – or, with its gun-metal paint...
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A haunted controversy
By Tobi MüllerLilith Stangenberg and Martin Wuttke in René Pollesch and Dirk von Lowtzow’s Von einem der auszog, weil er sich die Miete nicht mehr leisten konnte (The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth...
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Milan EXPOsed
By Barbara CasavecchiaWheatfield (1982) by Agnes Denes, currently installed in Milan (photo credit: Barbara Francoli)Milan l’è un grand Milan (Milan is a great Milan) is an old saying in Milanese...
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Postcard from Baltimore: Trouble in Charm City
By Ian BourlandPolice line from south to north, blockading North Avenue at Pennsylvania Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, April 28, 2015 (Photograph: Nate Larson)By U.S. standards, Baltimore is a small...
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Postcard from Venice pt.1: 56th Venice Biennale, ‘All the World’s Futures’
By Amy SherlockGlenn Ligon and Oscar Murillo, installation view at the Central Pavilion, Giardini, 2015I generally find Venice an uplifting sort of place. When the hazy, watery sunlight bounces off the...
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Postcard from Venice pt.1: 56th Venice Biennale, ‘All the World’s Futures’
By Amy SherlockGlenn Ligon and Oscar Murillo, installation view at the Central Pavilion, Giardini, 2015I generally find Venice an uplifting sort of place. When the hazy, watery sunlight bounces off the...
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Postcard from Venice pt.2: 56th Venice Biennale, ‘All the World’s Futures’
By Paul TeasdaleHito Steyerl ‘Factory of the Sun‘ (2015) film still; courtesy: the artist; photograph: Manuel ReinartzIf exit polls are to be believed (and the recent UK elections have sadly shown they...
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Postcard from Venice pt.2: 56th Venice Biennale, ‘All the World’s Futures’
By Paul TeasdaleHito Steyerl ‘Factory of the Sun‘ (2015) film still; courtesy: the artist; photograph: Manuel ReinartzIf exit polls are to be believed (and the recent UK elections have sadly shown they...
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Postcard from Venice pt.1: 56th Venice Biennale, ‘All the World’s Futures’
By Amy SherlockGlenn Ligon, 'A Small Band' (2015) and Oscar Murillo, 'signalling devices now in bastard territory' (2015), installation view at the Central Pavilion, GiardiniI generally find Venice an...
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Chris Burden 1946-2015
By Jonathan GriffinChris Burden, the Los Angeles artist, died at his home in Topanga, California, on Sunday. He was 69 years old. He had been diagnosed with a malignant melanoma 18 months ago, but had...
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Postcard from Venice pt.2: 56th Venice Biennale, ‘All the World’s Futures’
By Paul TeasdaleHito Steyerl 'Factory of the Sun' (2015) film still; courtesy: the artist; photograph: Manuel ReinartzIf exit polls are to be believed (and the recent UK elections have sadly shown they...
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Venice in the Rear-View Mirror - (Some) Glimmers of Hope
By Christy LangeThe Ukrainian national pavilion at the Venice BiennaleIn its tightly held, unrelenting focus on the conditions of labour in the world at large, Okwui Enwezor’s ‘All the World’s Futures’...
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Postcard from Venice pt.1: 56th Venice Biennale, ‘All the World’s Futures’
By Amy SherlockGlenn Ligon, 'A Small Band' (2015) and Oscar Murillo, 'signalling devices now in bastard territory' (2015), installation view at the Central Pavilion, GiardiniI generally find Venice an...
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Postcard from Venice pt.1: 56th Venice Biennale, ‘All the World’s Futures’
By Amy SherlockGlenn Ligon, 'A Small Band' (2015) and Oscar Murillo, 'signalling devices now in bastard territory' (2015), installation view at the Central Pavilion, GiardiniI generally find Venice an...
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Olfactory Fatigue
By Alice HattrickAdam Christensen, 'Smell of Intuition', 2015, installation view as part of 'I'm Here But You've Gone', Fiorucci Art Trust. Courtesy: the artist and Fiorucci Art Trust; photography:...
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