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Tom Hardwick-Allan
The works in Tom Hardwick-Allan’s current exhibition at South Parade are exact reflections of its title, ‘Low Relief and Foil’: a foil is both the trail that a hunted animal leaves as it passes through its environment and a plot device by which a character is defined by its inverse.
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Banu Cennetoğlu
In ‘BEING SAFE IS SCARY’, Turkish artist Banu Cennetoğlu reflects upon the adversities of the migrant experience, hinting at the extraordinary powers that governments can wield in the guise of protection.
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Island Treasures
Remapping: Renato Leotta's artwork places Sicily in the crosshairs of antiquity and nature
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Alchemies of Place
Remapping: Nour Jaouda's textiles deconstruct slippery notions of home and belonging
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Laura Owens
Amid the visual overwhelm on display in Laura Owens’s eponymous exhibition, which spans two of Matthew Marks Gallery’s Manhattan spaces, an abiding image is the candy cigarette.
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Patty Chang
BANK NYC, New York, USA
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Sophie Calle
At Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, the French photographer and conceptual artist Sophie Calle presents an assortment of projects deferred or abandoned over the course of her 40-year career.
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Berlinde De Bruyckere
A few months ago at a gallery dinner, I asked a German collector about the last work of art that had wowed him.
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Jack Whitten
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
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Sadao Hasegawa
A naked, muscled youth appears to rocket into space in Sadao Hasegawa’s That Floating Feeling (1980). His body throbs magenta, while his face - impassive as a mask - is crowned by flamelike hair. Both human and ethereal, he exhales a stream of starry breath, while the tips of his fingers sparkle: flesh becoming cosmic.
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Arpita Singh
A cluster of small, lemon-yellow islands - each shaped exactly like Cuba - hovers in a milky body of water.
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Against Despair
How Istanbul's contemporary artists have created pockets of resistance in the heart of the city
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Postcard from Monaco
Out of Office: Ivana Cholakova spins the wheel of chance
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In Our Own Backyard
‘How many feminists do you need to change an electric bulb?’ asked Indian writer and activist Kamla Bhasin and author and illustrator Bindia Thapar in their book Laughing Matters (2004).
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Leah Ke Yi Zheng
In ‘Machine(s)’, her first solo exhibition at Layr, Wuyishan-born, Chicago-based artist Leah Ke Yi Zheng continues to confront the conventional role of canvas as passive support in works whose physical shape is integral to their meaning and whose mutable, translucent surfaces are imbued with an almost-bodily presence.
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Skin of the Real
Exploring dreams and reality in the art of Kaari Upson, on the occasion of her first retrospective at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
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Issue 251 - May 2025
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Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing, 1960-91
Large panels filled with pages of zestfully handwritten notations set the tone for 'Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing, 1960-91' at Kunsthalle Wien.
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Issue 251 - May 2025
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Postcard from New York
Out of Office: Art criticism hits the dancefloor
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Issue 251 - May 2025
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Carl Cheng
On the last March weekend of 1988, visitors to Santa Monica State Beach witnessed something peculiar: a 14-tonne concrete roller, Carl Cheng's Santa Monica Art Tool (1988), embossing the sand with an aerial view of a Los Angeles-inspired metropolis.
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Issue 251 - May 2025
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Leave It on the Mountain
Afterlife: For Vivian Suter, exposure to the elements is part of her practice nterview by Lauren O’Neill-Butler
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Issue 251 - May 2025
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The Remains of Time
Afterlife: Rosa Barba's ecological cinema comes off the screen
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Issue 251 - May 2025
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Foreverise
Afterlife: The past lives on in Rafal Zajko’s dynamic, campy sculptures as fold to Sean Burns
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Issue 251 - May 2025
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Three Galleries to Watch in New York
Dossier: The next wave of the city’s art world is taking shape in spaces that champion risk-taking and new voices. We profile three galleries, Francis Irv, Soft Network, and KAJE, to look out for as they redefine the scene
10 min |
Issue 251 - May 2025
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New World Coming
Afterlife: Realizing Essex Hemphill's poetry of collective liberation
3 min |
Issue 251 - May 2025
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Mortal Concerns ANSLATION Of Dante
Afterlife: How Tammy Nguyen brought Dante into the 21st century
3 min |
Issue 251 - May 2025
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Don't Mind if It Smokes
Essay: Novelist and poet Gertrude Stein, a champion of avant-garde practices in her lifetime, continues to inspire contemporary artists and writers
9 min |
Issue 251 - May 2025
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LOTUS L.KANG
Profile: At 52 Walker, the artist expands her sculptural grammar, exploring diasporic time, material transformation and the body as a site of flux
8 min |
Issue 251 - May 2025
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Shilpa Gupta
In his treatise on literature’s relationship to loss and the limits of representation, The Writing of the Disaster (1980), Maurice Blanchot suggests that ‘[w]hoever writes is exiled from writing, which is the country ~ his own - where he is not a prophet’.
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Issue 251 - May 2025
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Spirit World
One Take: On the occasion of Noah Davis's forthcoming exhibition at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Christopher Alessandrini looks at his 2010 work The Future's Future
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Issue 251 - May 2025
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'You were following me and I was following you,but neither of us knew where we were going!'
Conversation: Ahead of her solo exhibition at K21 in Düsseldorf, Julie Mehretu speaks with her longtime friend and collaborator Nairy Baghramian about their shared thinking around space and abstraction, and how art becomes a language for survival
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