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Berufsverkehr, Los Angeles, 2018

Berufsverkehr, Los Angeles, 2018, All photos © Christian Werner

Everything So Democratic and Cool

The new book by Berlin based photographer Christian Werner

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GINA BEAVERS “IN-N-OUT BURGER”, 2020

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Moyra Davey, “Smoking 1”, 1987/2016, silver gelatin print, paper size: 28 x 35.5 cm All images: Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York

Moyra Davey, “Smoking 1”, 1987/2016, silver gelatin print, paper size: 28 x 35.5 cm
All images: Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: “FUTURE SYSTEMS”

KAITLIN PHILLIPS, in the first post for her new monthly column,“FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE”, sees her life as a movie, a pretty boring one, with no outside.

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RACHEL ROSE “UNTITLED”, 2020

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Rachel Rose, Autoscopic Egg , 2017. © Rachel Rose. Courtest of the artist, and Gavin Brown Enterprise's, New York/Rome. Photo: Lance Brewer

Rachel Rose, Autoscopic Egg, 2017; © Rachel Rose. Courtest of the artist, and Gavin Brown Enterprise’s, New York/Rome; Photo: Lance Brewer

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Bianca Heuser on Rachel Roses’s first solo exhibition in Germany, held at the Fridericianum in Kassel earlier this year.

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Johannes Vermeer, View of Delft , 1660-1661 Oil on Canvas. 96.5 cm × 115.7 cm

Johannes Vermeer, View of Delft, 1660-1661

Oil on Canvas. 96.5 cm × 115.7 cm

The Downward Spiral: Little Patch of Yellow Wall

DEAN KISSICK is in search of lost rays of the sun, in paintings. There is a certain kind of light, and it still seems to show on Proust, Vermeer, and kitties?

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Canova, Maddalena penitente , 1796 Marble and gold plated bronze, 95 x 70 x 77 cm © Musei di Strada Nuova, Genova – Palazoo Tursi

Canova, Maddalena penitente, 1796, Marble and gold plated bronze, 95 x 70 x 77 cm; © Musei di Strada Nuova, Genova

THE END IS NIGHT: ESCAPE GUILT

By Alison M. Gingeras and Jamieson Webster

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Q/A Rachel Rose

How painterly is your video work?

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Still from The Poseidon Adventure , 1972, 20th Century Fox, dir. Ronald Neame

Still from The Poseidon Adventure, 1972, 20th Century Fox, dir. Ronald Neame

Falling Out: Shipwrecked

Spike’s Senior Editor COLIN LANG’s weekly column “FALLING OUT”is hitting the rocks. Shipwrecks are on the dockett, and we don’t mean the Titanic film. 

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Anton Lehmden, Vogelflug , 2001, watercolor on paper, 30 × 42.6 cm

Anton Lehmden, Vogelflug, 2001, watercolor on paper, 30 × 42.6 cm

Falling Out: For the Birds

Spike’s Senior Editor COLIN LANG’s weekly column “FALLING OUT” is all about birds. Really. 

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Pandemic Content

Stay home, stay away, but stay online, for goodness sake. Digital communication has become more of a force than ever in the art world, without the usual galas, openings, and related events. JEPPE UGELVIG dishes the digital dirt. 

"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