Highlights 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 as a...
View ArticleHighlights 2015 – Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
By Kaelen Wilson-GoldieYoussef Safieddine, Self-portrait, Dakar, Senegal, 1966, photograph. Courtesy: AIF/Youssef Safieddine © Arab Image FoundationLet me tell you three short stories. In the first,...
View ArticleHighlights 2015 – Carol Yinghua Lu
By Carol Yinghua LuA work shown in ‘Dunhuang: Song of Living Beings’ at the Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China. Courtesy Shanghai Himalayas MuseumOur Beijing-based contributing editor shares...
View ArticleHighlights 2015 – Shanay Jhaveri
By Shanay JhaveriMrinalini Mukherjee, Vruksha Nata, 1991–92, installation view ‘Transfigurations’ at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, 2015The first few weeks of 2015 brought with it...
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 – Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
By Kaelen Wilson-GoldieYoussef Safieddine, Self-portrait, Dakar, Senegal, 1966, photograph. Courtesy: AIF/Youssef Safieddine © Arab Image FoundationLet me tell you three short stories. In the first,...
View ArticleHighlights 2015 – Carol Yinghua Lu
By Carol Yinghua LuA work shown in ‘Dunhuang: Song of Living Beings’ at the Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China. Courtesy Shanghai Himalayas MuseumOur Beijing-based contributing editor shares...
View ArticleHighlights 2015 – Tom Morton
By Tom MortonNatalie Dray, ‘DRAY’, 2015, Cell Projects Space, LondonHaving been lucky enough to visit James Magee’s The Hill in the remote West Texas desert this September – an extraordinary structure...
View ArticleHighlights 2015 – Matthew McLean
By Matthew McLeanPatrick Godfrey in Caryl Churchill’s play Here We Go at the National Theatre, London, 2015‘I used to worry’, Luke Brown writes in a story published in the latest issue of The White...
View ArticleHighlights 2015 – Barbara Casavecchia
By Barbara CasavecchiaJonas Mekas, In an instant it all came back to me, 2015. Courtesy the artist and A Palazzo, BresciaIn December, Jonas Mekas was in Brescia for the opening of his show ‘All these...
View ArticleHighlights 2015 – Sam Thorne
By Sam ThorneMark Leckey ‘Lending Enchantment to Vulgar Materials’ 2014–15, installation view, WIELS, 2014. Photograph Sven LaurentBooksI read James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son (1955) while holed...
View ArticleHighlights 2015 – Tom Morton
By Tom MortonNatalie Dray, ‘DRAY’, 2015, Cell Projects Space, LondonHaving been lucky enough to visit James Magee’s The Hill in the remote West Texas desert this September – an extraordinary structure...
View ArticleHighlights 2015 – Evan Moffitt
By Evan Moffitt‘9800’, 2015, installation view at 9800 Sepulveda Boulevard, Los Angeles. Courtesy J. Shyan Rahimi Growing up in Los Angeles, as I did, could at times be an exercise in collective...
View ArticleDavid Bowie: 1947 – 2016
By Michael BracewellOn 10 January 2016, around the world, millions of David Bowie’s fans were shocked and saddened to hear the news of his unexpected and untimely death. All of them have their memories...
View ArticleHighlights 2015 - Jonathan Griffin
By Jonathan GriffinLee Mullican, 'Computer Work', 1987According to the East Coast press, Los Angeles is all in a tizzy over the recent renaissance in its commercial gallery scene. But the cavernous...
View ArticleDavid Bowie: 1947 – 2016
By Michael BracewellDavid Bowie as Ziggy Stardust, 1972. Courtesy Outside Organisation; photograph: Brian Ward.On 10 January 2016, around the world, millions of David Bowie’s fans were shocked and...
View ArticleHighlights 2015 – Matthew McLean
By Matthew McLeanPatrick Godfrey in Caryl Churchill’s play Here We Go at the National Theatre, London, 2015‘I used to worry’, Luke Brown writes in a story published in the latest issue of The White...
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