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Istanbul: 9 Responses
By Sam ThorneImage courtesy: Tayfun SerttaşWe invited eight Istanbul-based artists, writers and curators to reflect on the events of the last month.***Filiz Avunduk After we were raided from Gezi Park,...
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Postcard from the Cannes International Film Festival 2013
By Agnieszka GratzaFilm still from Abdellatif Kechiche's Palme d'Or-winning 'La Vie d'Adele – Chapitre 1 & 2' (Blue is the Warmest Colour), 2013This year’s Cannes Film Festival got off to a...
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After the Quake: A Report from Christchurch
By Carol Yinghua LuUsually after visiting a new place and meeting new people, I immediately want to write about it. What often happens though is that I get home, become overwhelmed by a million other...
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Istanbul: 9 Responses
By Sam ThorneImage courtesy: Tayfun SerttaşWe invited eight Istanbul-based artists, writers and curators to reflect on the events of the last month.***Filiz Avunduk After we were raided from Gezi Park,...
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People’s Park
By Alan BettLibbie D. Cohn and J.P. Sniadecki People's Park (2013), film stillThere is a notion held by some that to describe the world is photography’s highest calling. If true then Libbie D. Cohn and...
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Postcard from Rotterdam: Of Ports and Skyscrapers
By Nicola BozziRollerskating in the Hofpoort building on Rotterdam's 'Day of Architecture'Rotterdam is sometimes looked down upon by Amsterdammers, but I’ve always been a fan of Erasmus’s city. The...
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Performing Democracy
By Berin GolonuArt historian and critic Osman Erden arrested by police in Istanbul on 13 July, 2013; photograph: Ahmet Şık‘This is just the beginning! The resistance will continue’ is a common refrain...
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Postcard from Michigan
By Ginanne BrownellMike Kelley's 'Mobile Homestead' outside the abandoned Michigan Central Station, Detroit, in 2010 (Photo: Corine Vermeulen; courtesy; MoCAD)In May, the art world was horrified when...
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Postcard from Shanghai: Where Art and Fashion Mingle
By Jenny LinArtist Liu Jianhua's collaboration with Dior, 'Daily Fragile: Starlight'It’s a great time for fashion and art unions. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York recently hosted...
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Postcard from Jerusalem
By Amy SherlockFrom its seat atop a hill overlooking Jerusalem, the Israel Museum looks straight across at the Knesset. At night the squat and severe Israeli Parliament building is lit with wide blue...
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Interview: Ben Davis
By Mike PepiBen Davis, '9.5 Theses on Art and Class', 2013. Cover art by William Powhida.Clement Greenberg once said ‘someday it will have to be told how anti-Stalinism which started out more or less...
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A Dangerous Figure
By Jack MillsAll images: Alexander Augustus and Seung Youn Lee, 'A Dangerous Figure', installation view at Somerset House, London, 2013In the crypt beneath Somerset House’s piazza lurks ‘A Dangerous...
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Postcard from Shanghai: Where Art and Fashion Mingle
By Jenny LinArtist Liu Jianhua's collaboration with Dior, 'Daily Fragile: Starlight'It’s a great time for fashion and art unions. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York recently hosted...
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A Dangerous Figure
By Jack MillsAll images: Alexander Augustus and Seung Youn Lee, 'A Dangerous Figure', installation view at Somerset House, London, 2013; photographs: Samuel BradleyIn the crypt beneath Somerset House’s...
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Hungry. Will Critique Culture for Food
By Joe TurnbullPhotograph: Adrien MilesAs a penniless culture critic, last month’s announcement that The Independent on Sunday was bringing the axe to bear on every single one of its culture reviewers...
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Postcard from Košice – European Capital of Culture 2013
By John Hill and Hana JaneckovaView of Košice, overlooking the future site of Tomáš Džadoň 'Monument of Folk Architecture'Košice is far away, as even its residents admit, and we spend a night in the...
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Rome Expects
By Mike WatsonMAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, RomeWhen crisis becomes the norm, what is there for the art world to resort to but its capacity for spectacle? In Rome this involves...
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Rome Expects
By Mike WatsonMAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, RomeWhen crisis becomes the norm, what is there for the art world to resort to but its capacity for spectacle? In Rome this involves...
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Scary Neighbours
By Valentin DiaconovAi Weiwei Forever Bicycle (2012)‘China China’ at the PinchukArtCentre, KievContemporary Chinese art and literature has never been met in Russia with the same intense interest as in...
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Open to All?
By Joe TurnbullTate has less than 10% of its visitors from 'lower socio-economic groups'. Photograph: Isaac BordasDoes free admission guarantee accessibility to art?It’s now nearly 12 years since it...
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