Art
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Shuvinai Ashoona
Crawling with tentacled creatures, flipper-footed beasts and beaked hybrids, Shuvinai Ashoona’s colourful pencil drawings are playful and fantastical depictions of Inuit life in the Canadian Arctic.
2 min |
Issue 243 - May 2024
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Regina José Galindo and Iva Lulashi
The female figure predominates in the works of Guatemalan visual and performance artist Regina José Galindo and Albanian artist Iva Lulashi.
2 min |
Issue 243 - May 2024
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Bettina Pousttchi
‘Progressions’, Bettina Pousttchi’s survey at Zurich’s Haus Konstruktiv, is a striking illustration of the idea that urban space is not only the physical environment of a city – from pedestrian and surveillance structures to actual buildings – but also a projection, subject to both time-bound ideologies driving urban policy and to city dwellers’ subjective memories. Spread across three floors, the exhibition highlights the fluidity with which Pousttchi moves between industrial-scale readymades, urban architecture and photography.
2 min |
Issue 243 - May 2024
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Nidhal Chamekh
Taking its title from philosopher Édouard Glissant’s question, ‘What If Carthage Hadn’t Been Destroyed?’ – posed in his book of collected poems Le Sel Noir (The Black Salt, 1957) – Nidhal Chamekh’s latest exhibition, ‘Et si Carthage’, is inspired by the ancient city whose ruins are a ten-minute drive from Selma Feriani’s new gallery space in downtown Tunis.
2 min |
Issue 243 - May 2024
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Green Snake: Women-Centred Ecologies
When I was younger, my mother told me a story about a man who travelled to a faraway lake in China, where he met a beautiful young woman dressed in white and spent the night on her boat.
2 min |
Issue 243 - May 2024
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Whitney Biennial 2024
With this year’s Whitney Biennial already having been dismissed by many critics (The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vulture) as riskless, I felt hard-pressed to agree.
5 min |
Issue 243 - May 2024
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A Man Entering America With a Camera
Robert Frank at 100: in the last years of his life, it seemed a plausible enough prospect.
9 min |
Issue 243 - May 2024
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Cool Connection
ON A STREET IN HARLEM, New York, in 1963, a Black child runs back and forth.
3 min |
Issue 243 - May 2024
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Hidden Passages
OVER THE PAST FEW DECADES, curatorial discourse has reached a crescendo, to the point where it can sometimes feel as though the contextualization of art is so extensive that it risks overwhelming the very work it is intended to substantiate.
3 min |
Issue 243 - May 2024
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The Curious Cosmopolitanism of Ali Sultan Issa
How research into historic Afro-Asian solidarities drew a filmmaker into the path of a Zanzibari political revolutionary
6 min |
Issue 243 - May 2024
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Ghislaine Leung
How to identify Ghislaine Leung amid the lunching crowd at a south London cafe? In this image-greedy world, Leung is that rare creature: a public figure of whose physical person no trace seems to exist online.
8 min |
Issue 243 - May 2024
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Faerie Tales
ON A HOT SUMMER’S DAY, in a cramped Manhattan apartment, Leslie Bright totters between the telephone and the dresser, complaining of old age and heartache.
5 min |
Issue 243 - May 2024
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'My work is not illustrational: it's associative, intuitive.'
LYNNE TILLMAN Joan, you’ve just come from MoMA.
9 min |