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Postcard from Banff
By Michael BirchallPhoto by: Lucie CouillardIn November 2012, I was fortunate to attend a four-week residency at The Banff Centre. Titled ‘The Decapitated Museum’, it was led by Vincent Normand, a...
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Figuring Brutality
By Sean O’TooleFucked up. That about summarises the degradation. Let me do a partial reckoning. In the same week that South African athlete Oscar Pistorius allegedly shot and killed his 29-year-old...
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A Conversation about Sculpture
By Diana CampbellHemali Bhuta Speed Breakers, 2012 11 Beech roots cast in bronzeA Conversation about Sculpture: the Invisible, the Impermanent and the Ephemeral Location: CONA in Borivali, India;...
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A Conversation about Sculpture
By Diana CampbellHemali Bhuta Speed Breakers, 2012 11 Beech roots cast in bronzeA Conversation about Sculpture: the Invisible, the Impermanent and the Ephemeral Location: CONA in Borivali, India;...
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At Tate Britain: Emptyset
By Charlie FoxEmptyset: James Ginzburg and Paul PurgasWhen a nuclear strike seemed inevitable during the darkest hours of the Cold War, the BBC outlined a procedure to be followed in such an event and...
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Postcard from the Berlinale
By Agnieszka GratzaLucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, "The Last Judgement" (2013), installation view at Forum ExpandedNow in its eighth year, Forum Expanded is to Forum – the self-consciously...
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Hadrian the Seventh
By Dan FoxDerek Jacobi in the 1995 production of Peter Luke's 'Hadrian VII' (based on the novel by Frederick Rolfe)This week saw the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, the first to abdicate as leader of...
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Gender Talents: A Special Address
By Ellen FeissAll photos courtesy: Christa Holka The ‘special’ mode of address offered by this symposium was acutely aware of its setting. Curated by Tate Film and Electra Productions and convened by...
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From Purgatory to Paradise: an indulgence
By Ali Kayley & Dan Glaister'for stupid people love tales that are old' 16mm film still, 2013It started with a word on a map. One of those places you hear of but never visit: Purgatory. We’d read...
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Interview with Cristian Mungiu
By Rob WhiteRestricted view of Alina’s ordeal: still from 'Beyond the Hills', 2012 Mobra Films / Why Not Productions / Les Films du Fleuve / France 3 Cinéman / Mandragora Movies. Courtesy of Artificial...
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Lahore’s First Literary Festival
By Ayesha HasanVisitors take pictures by the message board at the inaugural Lahore Literary FestivalIt began as the most sought after event in the history of the city – a city full of art and culture,...
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Postcard from Yogyakarta: 25 Years of Cemeti Art House
By Alia SwastikaThe Cemeti Art House in Yogyakarta, IndonesiaTwenty-five years ago, one of the most important moments in the history of contemporary art in Indonesia occurred in a small living room in...
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27 Gnosis
By Dan FoxMichael Portnoy, 27 Gnosis, (2012-13). Performance still. (Photo by Paula Court, courtesy of The Kitchen)Ever played 27 Gnosis? It’s my new favourite game. Here are five reasons why: 1) It’s...
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Postcard from Amsterdam: The Emerging Amsterdam Zuid-Oost Art Scene
By Nicola BozziThe Kleiburg housing block and the abandoned Kraaiennest shopping centre in the Bijlmermeer neighbourhood of Amsterdam Zuid-OostThe Vinger office, where I met producer Sara Mattens and...
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Postcard from the Gulf
By Sarah-Neel SmithOFFICE, Oases (2012–13), installation view at the 2013 Sharjah BiennialOn day one of the Global Art Forum – a yearly talks programme organized in conjunction with the Art Dubai fair,...
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In Search of Harmony Korine
By Charlie FoxHere’s Harmony Korine on The Late Show with David Letterman in 1997, aged 23, looking like a teenage Walter Benjamin with the voice of a spooked cartoon puppy. We sneak in as he’s...
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New Directors New Films 2013
By Ela BittencourtStories We Tell (Directed by Sarah Polley, 2012)New Directors New Films (NDNF), a festival run jointly by Film Society at Lincoln Center and Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), has garnered...
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Postcard from Moscow
By Amy SherlockVadim Zakharov (artist) and Udo Kittelmann (curator) at their exhibition 'The Last Stroll through Elysian Fields', Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 1995 Moscow seems to have been in the...
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Postcard from Moscow
By Amy SherlockVadim Zakharov (artist) and Udo Kittelmann (curator) at their exhibition 'The Last Stroll through Elysian Fields', Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 1995 Moscow seems to have been in the...
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Quizoola!
By Agnieszka GratzaIt’s 4am and I’m struggling to stay awake while two people made up as clowns throw questions and answers each other’s way. ‘How do spark plugs and three-prong plugs work?’ I try to...
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