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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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Postcard from Morocco: Independent Spaces
By Natalie ShooterExterior of Les Anciens Abattoirs, a former slaughterhouse in CasablancaMorocco’s young arts scene has experienced something of a boom in the last few years, though this can’t be...
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Postcard from Morocco: Independent Spaces
By Natalie ShooterExterior of Les Anciens Abattoirs, a former slaughterhouse in Casablanca. Photos courtesy: James ShooterMorocco’s young arts scene has experienced something of a boom in the last few...
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Interview: Ben Rivers & Ben Russell
By Agnieszka GratzaThe artists Ben Rivers and Ben Russell discuss their new film, A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013).Agnieszka Gratza: How did the two of you meet? Ben Rivers: We met in Brighton....
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Wysing Music Festival
By Colin PerryI spent the weekend in the genteel countryside outside Cambridge, listening to a fusillade of blistering industrial noise, otherworldly drones and old 78-inch recordings of birdsong and...
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Postcard from the Arctic Circle: Lofoten International Art Festival 2013
By Katya García-AntónKnut Asdam's 'DS (Hole, Figure 2)' (2013) at the Lofoten International Art Festival, Norway. Photo: Kjell Ove StorvikIt took three plane-rides and 16 hours of travel from my base...
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An Interview with Germaine Kruip
By Annie Godfrey LarmonGermaine Kruip's 'Circle Dance', 2012, Art Unlimited, BaselGermaine Kruip’s work often exaggerates or isolates the durational and immaterial elements of a given institutional or...
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Patrick Doorly’s ‘The Truth About Art: Reclaiming Quality’
By Houman BarekatWhen I was ten I decided it would be a good idea to read the Oxford English Dictionary from beginning to end like a regular book. It would be terribly clever; plus, I’d learn all the...
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What’s in a name?
By Joe TurnbullClaire Fontaine, 'Gather in multiple groups', 2011, spray paint on canvas, 182.9 x 121.3 cmThe use of pseudonyms by artists is a complex and contested matter with a long history. To...
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The Venice Process: A Dialogue Around Ecology and Free Education
By Mike Watson, Antonia Alampi and Dorian BatckyaAll images courtesy: Donatella Giordano‘The Venice Process’ – started at Gervasuti Foundation, Venice, in collaboration with the national pavilion of...
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Postcard from the 51st New York Film Festival 2013: Part 1
By Ela BittencourtAlexander Payne, Nebraska, 2013The 51st New York Film Festival abounded in texturally rich family and relationship stories, often matched by bold stylistic approaches. Among the US...
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Postcard from the 51st New York Film Festival 2013: Part 2
By Ela BittencourtJia Zhangke, A Touch of Sin (2013)Some of the most memorable films at this year’s New York Film Festival have been authored by Asian filmmakers. Chinese director Jia Zhangke,...
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Postcard from Shanghai: A New Prize for Emerging Asian Artists
By Iona WhittakerHugo Boss Asia Art Inaugural winner Kwan Sheung Chi's 'Water Barrier (Maotai-Water 1:999)', 2013Not to be outdone by the slew of new prizes appearing in the region, this year the Hugo...
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An (Almost) Interview with Ian Sinclair
By Max LiuNovelist, poet and psycho-geographer scourge of the London Olympics, Iain Sinclair has written over thirty books and made several films. In recent years, he’s documented the changing...
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An (Almost) Interview with Iain Sinclair
By Max LiuNovelist, poet and psycho-geographer scourge of the London Olympics, Iain Sinclair has written more than 30 books and made several films. In recent years, he’s documented the changing...
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‘Western music is so impatient’: An interview with Philip Corner
By Robert BarryPhilip Corner, Deborah Walker, Sofi Hémon and Thierry Madiot rehearsing 'Another Long-Line Pièce' by Philip Corner. Photo: Sandra Giura LongoIn 1969, at the height of American...
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Getting Physical: Alexandra Bachzetsis’s latest performance work ‘The Stages...
By Aoife RosenmeyerPerformance of Alexandra Bachzetsis's 'The Stages of Staging' (2013) in Zurich. Photo: Melanie HofmannWhen the doors opened into the Gessnerallee Theatre in Zurich, all ten...
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New York Old Feeling
By Dan FoxPosters by André Saraiva for Creative Time at the corner of Lafayette St and Great Jones St, New York, 2013Walking to work in Manhattan a couple of weeks ago, I passed a grid of fly-posters...
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New York Old Feeling
By Dan FoxPosters by André Saraiva for Creative Time at the corner of Lafayette St and Great Jones St, New York, 2013Walking to work in Manhattan a couple of weeks ago, I passed a grid of fly-posters...
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Highlights 2013: Quinn Latimer
By Quinn LatimerPierre Huyghe, installation view, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2013Quinn Latimeris an American poet and critic based in Basel, Switzerland. Her latest book, Describe This Distance (Mousse...
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