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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.
2 min |
Issue 252 - June, July, August 2025
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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.
2 min |
Issue 252 - June, July, August 2025
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Against Despair
How Istanbul's contemporary artists have created pockets of resistance in the heart of the city
6 min |
Issue 252 - June, July, August 2025
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Postcard from Monaco
Out of Office: Ivana Cholakova spins the wheel of chance
1 min |
Issue 252 - June, July, August 2025
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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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Issue 252 - June, July, August 2025
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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.
2 min |
Issue 252 - June, July, August 2025
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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
6 min |
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.
5 min |
Issue 251 - May 2025
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Postcard from New York
Out of Office: Art criticism hits the dancefloor
1 min |
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.
2 min |
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
5 min |
Issue 251 - May 2025
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The Remains of Time
Afterlife: Rosa Barba's ecological cinema comes off the screen
4 min |
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
3 min |
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’.
2 min |
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
2 min |
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
9 min |
Issue 251 - May 2025
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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
10+ min |
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 |