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Interview: William E. Jones
By Steven CairnsWilliam E. Jones, Actual T.V. Picture (2013) Steven Cairns: Your recent video Actual T.V. Picture (2013) features the transistor developed in the 1940s for electronics and...
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Postcard from Brussels: Experienz #2 at WIELS
By Laura McLean-FerrisEsther Ferrer's performance at 'Experienz #2 - Materializing the Social', WIELS, Brussles. Photo: Cici OlssonThe parlour, historically, was a place designated by monks for formal...
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Postcard from Brussels: Experienz #2 at WIELS
By Laura McLean-FerrisEsther Ferrer's performance at 'Experienz #2 - Materializing the Social', WIELS, Brussles. Photo: Cici OlssonThe parlour, historically, was a place designated by monks for formal...
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Postcard from Brussels: Experienz #2 at WIELS
By Laura McLean-FerrisEsther Ferrer's performance at 'Experienz #2 - Materializing the Social', WIELS, Brussles. Photo: Cici OlssonThe parlour, historically, was a place designated by monks for formal...
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Postcard from Oberhausen
By Dan KidnerZoran Tadić, Dernek (Country Fair, 1975), film stillThis year at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, almost 100 programmes fought for attention. Two stand-out programmes focused on three...
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Venice Preview: Anri Sala Unravels His Project for the French Pavilion
By Robert BarryArtist Anri Sala will represent France at this year's 55th Venice Biennale. Photo © Julien Mignot / Eté 89At the age of four, Anri Sala was taken to the Palace of Pioneers in Tirana,...
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Postcard from Beirut: Homeworks 6
By Omar KholeifCrowds outside a Homeworks 6 venueSince it was founded in 2002, Homeworks has taken place every two or three years in Beirut. Organized by Christine Tohme, the powerhouse director behind...
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Postcard from Beirut: Homeworks 6
By Omar KholeifJoe Namy, Automobile (2013), performance documentationSince it was founded in 2002, Homeworks has taken place every two or three years in Beirut. Organized by Christine Tohme, the...
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55th Venice Biennale: the British Pavilion
By Paul TeasdaleJeremy Deller A Good Day for Cyclists, British Pavilion 2013. All photographs courtesy: British Council; photographs: Cristiano CorteA sense of magic pervades the main exhibition of...
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55th Venice Biennale: The Arsenale
By Sam ThorneMarino Auriti, Enciclopedico Palazzo del Mondo (c.1950s)The title for Massimiliano Gioni’s Venice Biennale – an exhibition which is mostly wonderful, often magisterial and elegantly...
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55th Venice Biennale: Do Attitudes Still Become Form?
By Christy LangeRobert Morris, 'Felt' (1967/2011) at 'When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969 / Venice 2013'If old attitudes could become form again, what would they look like? Organized by the...
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55th Venice Biennale: Afterthoughts
By Dan FoxInstallation view at the Pavilion of Cyprus and Lithuania (Photo: Robertas Narkus)I left the damp and maddeningly labyrinthine beauty of Venice a few days ago. Here is an assortment of...
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55th Venice Biennale: Reign of the Subconscious
By Jörg HeiserKarl Marx with subconscious masses in his beard – by Yüksel ArslanThe Biennale exhibition, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, has turned out to be something of a coup. He has compellingly...
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55th Venice Biennale: The Golden Lions
By Amy SherlockOn Saturday, after the crowds of journalists had thinned out and the international press delivered their judgements, it was time for the official jury (Jessica Morgan; Sofía Hernández...
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Encounters: Lyotard & Monory
By Hannah GregoryThe recent exhibition at SPACE in Hackney evolved from the encounter of philosopher Jean-François Lyotard and painter-filmmaker Jacques Monory. Initiated by a letter from Lyotard, this...
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Encounters: Lyotard & Monory
By Hannah GregoryThe recent exhibition at SPACE in Hackney evolved from the encounter of philosopher Jean-François Lyotard and painter-filmmaker Jacques Monory. Initiated by a letter from Lyotard, this...
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Encounters: Lyotard & Monory
By Hannah GregoryThe recent exhibition at SPACE in Hackney evolved from the encounter of philosopher Jean-François Lyotard and painter-filmmaker Jacques Monory. Initiated by a letter from Lyotard, this...
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Postcards from Beirut: Part 2
By Chad EliasFounded in 2002 by Ashkal Alwan director Christine Tohme, the Beirut-based Homeworks Forum on Cultural Practices has in a relatively short space of time established itself as arguably the...
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Interview: Rachel Kushner
By Max LiuRachel Kushner. Photo: Ann Summa for The New York Times‘The Flamethrowers’ (2013), the acclaimed second novel by American writer Rachel Kushner, begins as its young narrator Reno takes an...
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The Perfect American by Philip Glass
By Charlie Fox‘If only the phantom would stop reappearing!’So begins, in a soprano’s frightened yelp, John Ashbery’s poem on opera-going, ‘Faust’ (1962). The phantom is an incarnation of failure. Poor...
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