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Nikima Jagudajev, Basically , 2022. Installation view, Shedhalle’s Protozone 6: Are you coming? , 2022, Zurich. Photo: Laila Kaletta

Nikima Jagudajev, Basically, 2022. Installation view, Shedhalle’s “Protozone 6: Are you coming?,” 2022, Zurich. Photo: Laila Kaletta

I am the Controller

Reflections on The Sims and Nikima Jagudajev's Basically. 

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Image from  Hivemind . Courtesy: Serpentine Galleries and Trust

Image from Hivemind. Courtesy: Serpentine Galleries and Trust

Hivemind: In the Backend’s Labyrinth

Can video games dispel the commodity fetish? Hivemind, a recent project in collaboration between Trust and Serpentine Digital, leads the way.

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Courtesy: Manifesta 14. Photo: Atdhe Mulla

Courtesy: Manifesta 14. Photo: Atdhe Mulla

Manifesta 14’s Curator on the Worlds of Prishtina

How to make an international exhibition in a place where the locals can’t travel internationally

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Rhea Dillon, A Caribbean Ossuary , 2022, wooden cabinet and cut crystal, 42 × 208 × 161.5 cm. Courtesy: the artist and Soft Opening, London. Photo: Theo Christelis

Rhea Dillon, A Caribbean Ossuary, 2022, wooden cabinet and cut crystal, 42 × 208 × 161.5 cm. Courtesy: the artist and Soft Opening, London. Photo: Theo Christelis

To hold truth on your tongue or in your hand: An Interview with Rhea Dillon

The British-Jamaican artist and poet Rhea Dillon reveals the relationship between mahogany cabinets and Carribean identity.

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View of Rirkrit Tiravanija and Thomas Bayrle, “Tomorrow is the Question,” Gladstone Gallery, 2022, Beijing. Photo: Sixing Xu

View of Rirkrit Tiravanija and Thomas Bayrle, “Tomorrow is the Question,” Gladstone Gallery, 2022, Beijing. Photo: Sixing Xu

The Rest is Yet to Be History: Gallery Weekend Beijing 2022 Roundup

Art critic Sixing Xu found reprieve from the hellscape of “twenty-twenty too” at this year’s Gallery Weekend Beijing.

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Image of Roberto Matta’s Crucifixion (1979) blended with Max Ernst’s Leonora in the Morning Light (1940) made by the author with Midjourney, 2022

Image of Roberto Matta’s Crucifixion (1979) blended with Max Ernst’s Leonora in the Morning Light (1940) made by the author with Midjourney, 2022

The Downward Spiral: Text-to-Image

Are AI projects like DALL·E and Imagen actually literary endeavors? And are they our only hope for a new aesthetic?

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Rogier van der Weyden, Crucifixion , 1443/5, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Rogier van der Weyden, Crucifixion, 1443/5, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

WORN OUT: Dressed to Ascend

In the first installment of her new column, “Worn Out,” Cara Schacter reviews Jesus’s outfit alongside the latest European fashion shows. Is mortality hot for spring?

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Allen Ginsberg at a 1966 reading in New York City. © New York Daily News Archive

Allen Ginsberg at a 1966 reading in New York City. © New York Daily News Archive

Summer Reads

Thirteen books to read in the heat, recommended by an ex-bookseller.

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Extinction meme via @angelicism01archive2 on Instagram

Extinction meme via @angelicism01archive2 on Instagram

User Error: Extinction Postmortem

Adina Glickstein writes a travel diary from the end of the end of the world.

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Asad Raza, Diversion , 2022. Installation view, Portikus, 2022, Frankfurt am Main. Photo: Diana Pfammatter

Asad Raza, Diversion, 2022. Installation view, Portikus, 2022, Frankfurt am Main. Photo: Diana Pfammatter

What's New at the Portikus?

Curators Liberty Adrien and Carina Bukuts are transforming the Portikus into a haven for experimental thinking.

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Instituto de Artivismo Hannah Arendt, List of censored Artists , 2022. Installation view, documenta Halle, 2022, Kassel. Photo: Nicolas Wefers

Instituto de Artivismo Hannah Arendt, List of censored Artists, 2022. Installation view, documenta Halle, 2022, Kassel. Photo: Nicolas Wefers

documenta fifteen: Whose Side Are You on Anyway?

Attending documenta 15, Geoffrey Mak witnessed the dismantling of the controversial antisemitic piece and discovered solidarity.

"The 80s was the last period when low self-esteem was a normative response to authority"

Essay: The Last Great Era of Low Self-Esteem