Justice, Violence, and Design
By Ronald JonesPhotographer uncredited. Bottles of the sedative midazolam, used by several states at varying doses as the first drug in their lethal injection protocol, at a hospital pharmacy in...
View ArticleThe Restoration of Jacques Rivette’s Out 1
By Tom Newth'Out 1: Noli me Tangere' (1971), directed by Jacques RivetteAlmost 10 years ago the French director Jacques Rivette changed my conception of what cinema could be. His 13-hour long...
View ArticlePostcard from Peshawar
By Carol KhanStreet view of Peshawar. All photographs courtesy: the authorPeshawar, in the north-west of Pakistan, remains relatively barren artistically, at least at the public level. Although the...
View ArticleAre we post-critical? Hal Foster’s Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency
By Gilda WilliamsThomas Hirschhorn, Where do I stand? What do I want?, 2007, collage. Courtesy: the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, ParisA New Yorker cartoon featured a fashionable woman at a...
View ArticleArt Weekender – Bristol and Bath
By Lizzie LloydTheaster Gates, Sanctum, 2015, installation view. Photograph: Max MClure.What was once – last year in fact, on its first outing – known as Bristol Art Weekender, this year, became Art...
View ArticleArt Weekender – Bristol and Bath
By Lizzie LloydTheaster Gates, Sanctum, 2015, installation view. Photograph: Max MClure.What was once – last year in fact, on its first outing – known as Bristol Art Weekender, this year, became Art...
View ArticleThe Possibility of Grief, and Grey
By Jörg HeiserPeople observing a minute of silence at Place de la République, 16 November 2015In the aftermath of the Paris attacks, evidence-based thinking of ‘grey zones’ and nuances is what’s...
View ArticlePostcard from Timisoara
By Noemi SmolikAdrian Ghenie, The Darwin Room, 2013/2014, installation, internal measurements: 350 cm x 435 cm x 735 cm, courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery, LondonTimisoara in western Romania, on the...
View ArticlePostcard from Timisoara
By Noemi SmolikAdrian Ghenie, The Darwin Room, 2013/2014, installation, internal measurements: 350 cm x 435 cm x 735 cm, courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery, LondonTimisoara in western Romania, on the...
View ArticleHighlights 2015 – Charlie Fox
By Charlie FoxBen Rivers, What Means Something, 2015, film still. Courtesy the artist and Camden Arts Centre, London ‘There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something...
View ArticleHighlights 2015 – Timotheus Vermeulen
By Timotheus VermeulenMario Merz, Untitled (Igloo), 1989. 'Elements', 2015, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, Finland; photograph: Finnish National Gallery / Pirje MykkänenI’ve not managed to see and read and...
View ArticleHighlights 2015 - Brian Dillon
By Brian DillonRehearsal for Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, ‘Work/Travail/Arbeid’, WIELS, Brussels, 2015 (photograph: © Anne Van Aerschot) I’ve had what I’d have to say has been the oddest year of my...
View ArticleHighlights 2015 - Matthew Rana
By Matthew RanaBanu Kapil, Ban en Banlieue, 2015‘It is psychotic’ writes Bhanu Kapil in her 2011 book Schizophrene, ‘to submit to violence in a time of great violence and yet it is psychotic to leave...
View ArticleHighlights 2015 – Alice Rawsthorn
By Alice RawsthornThe Peek Retina smart phone adaptor © PeekHere are some the things that made me feel good – and, in a couple of cases, bad – about design in 2015:THEINTERNET OF THINGS IN AFRICA Some...
View ArticleHighlights 2015 – Dan Fox
By Dan Fox'CALL THIS NUMBER', Screen shot, 24 September 2015I look back on 2015, and keep returning to the word ‘land’. The land we all stand on, our Earth, which this year gave us some of the...
View ArticleHighlights 2015 - Bert Rebhandl
By Bert RebhandlHirokazu Koreeda Our Little Sister, 2015It is becoming ever more difficult to negotiate common sense with idiosyncratic preference in selecting a few movies from such a random unit like...
View ArticleHighlights 2015 – Charlie Fox
By Charlie FoxBen Rivers, What Means Something, 2015, film still. Courtesy the artist and Camden Arts Centre, London ‘There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something...
View ArticleHighlights 2015 – Brian Dillon
By Brian DillonRehearsal for Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, ‘Work/Travail/Arbeid’, WIELS, Brussels, 2015 (photograph: © Anne Van Aerschot) I’ve had what I’d have to say has been the oddest year of my...
View ArticleHighlights 2015 – Matthew Rana
By Matthew RanaBanu Kapil, Ban en Banlieue, 2015‘It is psychotic’ writes Bhanu Kapil in her 2011 book Schizophrene, ‘to submit to violence in a time of great violence and yet it is psychotic to leave...
View ArticleHighlights 2015 – Dan Fox
By Dan Fox'CALL THIS NUMBER', Screen shot, 24 September 2015I look back on 2015, and keep returning to the word ‘land’. The land we all stand on, our Earth, which this year gave us some of the...
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