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Scientia Sexualis

Bodily autonomy is a fragile affair.

5 min  |

Issue 249 - March 2025
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Wael Shawky

From his childhood in Makkah to his cinematic portrayals of the Crusades, Wael Shawky's work challenges the construction of history by Rahel Aima

8 min  |

Issue 249 - March 2025
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Father Tongue

Last year, I returned to Algiers for the first time in almost two decades. Instigated , as a curatorial research trip, the visit ultimately evolved into a deeply personal journey.

6 min  |

Issue 249 - March 2025
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Delcy Morelos

Cinnamon, cloves, cocoa, tobacco: you'll smell Deley Morelos's works before you see them.

2 min  |

Issue 249 - March 2025
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Then Came a Stranger

Oral History: From its roots in the New York art and theory scene of the 1970s to its transformative impact on global intellectual discourse, Semiotext(e) continues to defy boundaries, bridging avant-garde literature, radical philosophy and underground culture

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Issue 249 - March 2025
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Mend and Repair

Object Lessons: At the Wexner Center for the Arts, Maria Hupfield crafts objects which link time, place and memory by Caitlin Chaisson

3 min  |

Issue 249 - March 2025
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Postcard from Chicago

Finding reprieve in the Windy City from the immediacy of the art world by Marko Gluhaich

1 min  |

Issue 249 - March 2025
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Britta Marakatt-Labba

While the act of piercing fabric with a needle may seem slight, it has the capacity to create great strength.

2 min  |

Issue 249 - March 2025
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Towards a New Museology

Gala Porras-Kim wants us to rethink how art institutes honour their holdings by Simon Wu

5 min  |

Issue 249 - March 2025
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Waste Wizard

How a new kind of brick helped pave the way for sustainable architecture by Carson Chan

3 min  |

Issue 249 - March 2025
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'I have always felt that art can change the world, and I make art to prove it.'

Interview: Gregg Bordowitz discusses his exhibition at The Brick, Los Angeles, the challenges of survivor's guilt and how art can build communities around shared experiences Interview by Jeremy Lybarger

8 min  |

Issue 249 - March 2025
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The International Banal

Object Lessons: Haegue Yang writes poetry with household goods by Brian Dillon

4 min  |

Issue 249 - March 2025
The London Standard

The London Standard

The Queen, Drink and Drugs... What Made Me and Saved Me- Artist Chris Levine on kicking bad habits and shooting our art greats

For artist Chris Levine, Andy Warhol is always watching. A genuine self-portrait by the great Pop artist gazes out from the wall of Levine's studio in Hampshire, given to him by a collector after learning that Warhol was a huge inspiration. He said I could have one if I wanted. I thought he was joking, but a few weeks later he turned up with a big roll.

6 min  |

October 10, 2024
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Inward Yearnings

Essay: Rianna Jade Parker retraces the history of the Jamaican intuitives, a group of self-taught artists who ushered in a national form of artmaking mythologizing African traditions through religious divination and esteem-raising cultural work

8 min  |

Issue 243 - June - August 2024
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The Promise of the Past

Built Environment: On the occasion of the ‘Tropical Modernism’ exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Derin Fadina examines the architectural movement’s exclusionary narratives

5 min  |

Issue 243 - June - August 2024
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Sleepers Awake

Built Environment: By slowing sound, John Cage created a rousing music of shifting relations to space

3 min  |

Issue 243 - June - August 2024
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Echoes of the Brother Countries

In recent years, the former German Democratic Republic (DDR) has been the subject of a reappraisal that, while not seeking to redeem the stiflingly authoritarian state, has attempted to present a more nuanced overview of its social and cultural realities.

2 min  |

Issue 243 - June - August 2024
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Nicole Wermers

Nicole Wermers’s Reclining Female #6 (2024) looks out over Glasgow.

2 min  |

Issue 243 - June - August 2024
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Tell It Slant

Built Environment: Giovanna Silva on photographing history through unexpected architectural interventions

2 min  |

Issue 243 - June - August 2024
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Greater Toronto Art 2024

Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada

2 min  |

Issue 243 - June - August 2024
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Pierre Huyghe

A pale tetra fish swims around a vast obsidian tank, while another bobs on its side at the top of the water, perhaps ailing from debilitating swim bladder disease (Circadian Dilemma [El Día del Ojo], 2017).

4 min  |

Issue 243 - June - August 2024
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4 Galleries to Watch in Tokyo

Dossier: A new generation of galleries, non-profits and artist-run spaces has emerged in Tokyo, embracing the city’s famous pop sensibility – and revitalizing one of Asia’s oldest and most storied contemporary art sceneswith commissioned

10+ min  |

Issue 243 - June - August 2024
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I'm trying to follow my instinct: to have confidence and not get into my head too much about what other people are expecting.'

Conversation: Ahead of a solo show at London’s Cubitt Gallery, Marlene Smith speaks to Lubaina Himid about her time in the BLK Art Group, friendship and collaboration

8 min  |

Issue 243 - June - August 2024
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The Second Self

On the tenth anniversary of Chris Marker’s pioneering experiment in machine intelligence

7 min  |

Issue 243 - June - August 2024
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Dean Sameshima

What does it mean to be alone? In Dean Sameshima’s recent body of work – 25 monochrome photographs of queer men in Berlin porn theatres with sumptuous black negative spaces and blinding white cinema screens – ‘alone’ is a complicated term.

2 min  |

Issue 243 - June - August 2024
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After the Miracle State

Built Environment: Reimagining a postcolonial Ivorian cityscape with less concrete and more natural materials

3 min  |

Issue 243 - June - August 2024
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Where Is Everyone?

Built Environment: Minoru Nomata’s paintings ask why we obsess over unpeopled architecture

3 min  |

Issue 243 - June - August 2024
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Primary Information

Profile: How a storied artists' book publisher brought 1970s conceptual art into the hands of a new generation

9 min  |

Issue 243 - June - August 2024
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Winner Takes It All

IN THE EARLY 1990S, Donald Rodney assembled a collection of more than 100 cheap sporting and academic trophies, such as those typically available in local shops, and displayed them on shelves that ran the length of the gallery wall, and in purpose-made glazed and mirrored cabinets.

1 min  |

Issue 243 - May 2024
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Open Invitation

HOSTING PERFORMANCE in institutions, particularly those that have historically presented more traditional formats, is both tempting and tricky.

2 min  |

Issue 243 - May 2024