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By Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys

Qu Chang on Marge Monko's Dear D (2015)

Victoria Cambell on the Last Brucennial (2014)

Ingrid Luquet-Gad on Ines Doujak's Not Dressed for Conquering / HC 04 Transport (2014)

Can Art Replace Religion?

By Aleksandra Domanović, Anonymous Club, Matthew Copson, David Shrigley, Michele Abeles

 American Artist, Mother of All Demos , 2018 Dirt, 9” monochrome CRT monitor, computer parts, Linux operating system, subwoofer cable, wood, asphalt, plastic gloves Installation view HOUSING, New York

American Artist, Mother of All Demos, 2018
Dirt, 9” monochrome CRT monitor, computer parts, Linux operating system, subwoofer cable, wood, asphalt, plastic gloves
Installation view HOUSING, New York

By Adina Glickstein

 Performance with Nadja Voorham, Alexis Martinez, Maria Metsalu, Nicolas Roses, Manuel Scheiwiller, Ofelia Jarl Ortega, Jorge Benavides, and Vincent Riebeek, at Yvonne Lambert, Berlin, 2017

Performance with Nadja Voorham, Alexis Martinez, Maria Metsalu, Nicolas Roses, Manuel Scheiwiller, Ofelia Jarl Ortega, Jorge Benavides, and Vincent Riebeek, at Yvonne Lambert, Berlin, 2017

By Kam Dhillon

 Philippe Gerlach, Callie’s as seen from the Wedding S-Bahn station, 2020

Philippe Gerlach, Callie’s as seen from the Wedding S-Bahn station, 2020

By Isabel Lewis, Daniel Wichelhaus, Kate Brown, Douglas Gordon, Creamcake, Saskia Draxler & Christian Nagel

 TiffanySia, Salty Wet , 2019, magazine, 22 pages, 28 x 22 cm

TiffanySia, Salty Wet, 2019, magazine, 22 pages, 28 x 22 cm

By Jaime Chu

 Fantastic Toiles store, London

Fantastic Toiles store, London

By Bertie Brandes

 Seth Price,  Arm Flute , Graphite on paper, 18.5 x 25 cm

Seth Price, Arm Flute, Graphite on paper, 18.5 x 25 cm. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin

By Steve Zultanski

By Rob Pruitt, Luca Lo Pinto, Janett Krückemeier, Jaime Chu, Alfons Klosterfelde

The 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Various Locations; Matthew Lutz-Kinoy at Museum Frieder Burda – Salon Berlin; and Meriem Bennani at Julia Stoschek Collection

 View of “No Dandy, No Fun”

View of “No Dandy, No Fun”

“No Dandy, No Fun” at Kunsthalle Bern

 Maria Lai,  Senza titolo , 2009 Wood, thread, paint, cloth, wool, nails, 52 x 54 x 5.5 cm

Maria Lai, Senza titolo, 2009
Wood, thread, paint, cloth, wool, nails, 52 x 54 x 5.5 cm

“Female Minimal: Abstraction in the Expanded Field” at Thaddaeus Ropac

 View of “ART CLUB2000: Selected Works 1992–1999”

View of “ART CLUB2000: Selected Works 1992–1999”

ArtClub 2000 at Artists Space

 Still from  Possibly in Michigan , 1983, video, 12 min., colour, sound

Still from Possibly in Michigan, 1983, video, 12 min., colour, sound

Cecilia Condit at Goswell Road

 Gala Porras-Kim,  Assobios e trans guração da, linguagem , 2012 LP album, cyanotype print, 30.5 x 30.5 cm

Gala Porras-Kim, Assobios e trans guração da, linguagem, 2012 LP album, cyanotype print, 30.5 x 30.5 cm

Vento: 34th Bienal de São Paulo

 View of “M/Made in Shanghai”

View of “M/Made in Shanghai”

M/Made in Shanghai at the Power Station of Art

Andy Warhol at Mumok, Hervé Guibert at Felix Gaudlitz, Lewis Stein at Vin Vin 

 Jacob Rees-Mogg

Jacob Rees-Mogg

By Liam Gillick

 Summer Moon , 2020, oil on linen 170 x 140 cm

Jongsuk Yoon, Summer Moon, 2020, oil on linen 170 x 140 cm

Michael E. Smith at Secession, Jongsuk Yoon at Galerie Nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder

 Agnes Denes, Wheatfield – A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan – With New York Financial Center , 1982

Agnes Denes, Wheatfield – A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan – With New York Financial Center, 1982

”Down To Earth“ at Gropius Bau, John Miller at Schinkel Pavillon, John Heartfield at Akademie der Künste 

 it can be said of them , 1969 Screenprint on paper, 305 x 584 mm

Corita Kent, it can be said of them, 1969 Screenprint on paper, 305 x 584 mm

Corita Kent at Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol 

 Precious Okoyomon, Angel of earth; Resistance is an atmospheric condition , 2020. Installation view

Precious Okoyomon, Angel of earth; Resistance is an atmospheric condition, 2020. Installation view

Precious Okoyomon at ZollamtMMK

Hannah Black & DIS, What’s in the Box? with Hannah Black, 2019. Installation view

“Dis Presents: What Do People Do All Day?”at Kunsthal Charlottenborg

 Petrit Halilaj, View of “ To a raven and hurricanes that from unknown places bring back smells ”

Petrit Halilaj, View of “To a raven and hurricanes that from unknown places bring back smells

Petrit Halilaj, Reina Sofia at Palacio De Cristal

Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Catharsis, 2019–2020
Supported by CONNECT, BTS Outdoor installation at the Serpentine Galleries

Jakob Kudsk Steensen at Serpentine Gallery Online

 Monastery Icon

Monastery Icon

By Julie Boukobza, Kathrin Bentele, Dan Peterman, Mike Pepi, Maxwell Graham

By Julien Bismuth

 Katsushika Hokusai, Tako to Ama (The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife), 1814 Woodblock print, 19 x 27 cm

Katsushika Hokusai, Tako to Ama (The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife), 1814 Woodblock print, 19 x 27 cm

By Yiou Penelope Peng & Jakub Piwowarski

 Hempcrete block

Hempcrete block

By Alessandro Bava

 Isael Maxacali, Xunum [Bat] , 2005, Watercolour, 15 x 10.5 cm

Isael Maxacali, Xunum [Bat], 2005, Watercolour, 15 x 10.5 cm

By Els Lagrou

 Monira Al Qadiri , Future Past , 2020

Monira Al Qadiri, Future Past, 2020

By Alvaro Urbano, Monira Al Qadiri, SHIMABUKU, Susanna Hofer, Vern Blosum

 Yasuní National Park. In 2008, the people of Ecuador amended their constitution to recognise the inherent rights of nature.

Yasuní National Park. In 2008, the people of Ecuador amended their constitution to recognise the inherent rights of nature.

By Ingo Niermann

 Still from  Pteridophilia IV , 2019 4K video, colour, sound, 16 min.

Still from Pteridophilia IV, 2019

4K video, colour, sound, 16 min.

By Harry Burke

Should Nature Have the Right To Procreate?

 Ruderal Society Area II , 2004–, Studio Mirror Factory, Lower Austria

Ruderal Society Area II, 2004–, Studio Mirror Factory, Lower Austria

By Philippe Van Cauteren

 Vivian Suter, Above the crater Stephano end of October , in situ during her residency at Sterna Art Project, Nisyros, Greece, 2016

Vivian Suter, Above the crater Stephano end of October, in situ during her residency at Sterna Art Project, Nisyros, Greece, 2016

By Alexandra Thomas

Vivenda das Flores, São Paulo

 From the series “Bad Flowers”, taken in Brooklyn during the spring of 2020.

Roe Ethridge, from the series “Bad Flowers”, taken in Brooklyn during the spring of 2020

By Jamieson Webster

 Rooftop view of the main architectural complex. The Museum of the Wind can be seen in the distance.

Rooftop view of the main architectural complex. The Museum of the Wind can be seen in the distance.

Yujia Bian in conversation with Zheng Guogu on his Liao Garden

 Liliana Lewicka’s  Miejsce do rozmyślań  (A Place for Rumination), 1966. Installation view, Puławy, Poland. Photograph: Eustachy Kossakowski

Liliana Lewicka’s Miejsce do rozmyślań (A Place for Rumination), 1966. Installation view, Puławy, Poland. Photograph: Eustachy Kossakowski

Barbara Piwowarska on Liliana Lewicka’s A Place for Rumination (1966) at the The First Symposium of Artists and Scientists in Puławy, Poland

 Giuseppe Penone,  It Will Continue to Grow Except at That Point , 1968–2003 Tree, bronze, 40 x 10 x 13 cm and 700 x 30 x 30 cm

Giuseppe Penone, It Will Continue to Grow Except at That Point, 1968–2003

Tree, bronze, 40 x 10 x 13 cm and 700 x 30 x 30 cm

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev on Piero della Francesca’s Polyptych of Saint Anthony (c. 1470)

Do Ho Suh, Some/One, 2001

Installation view "Do Ho Suh: In Between", Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan, 2012

Daehyung Lee on Do Ho Suh’s Some/One (2001)

Ken Lum, There is no place like home, Kunsthalle Vienna, 2000

 

Charles Teyssou & Pierre-Alexandre Mateos on the museum in progress

Collier Schorr, Arrangement #12 (Blumen), 2008

Archival pigment print, 98 x 79 cm

By Dean Kissick

Cao Fei, Still from Asia One, 2018

Single-channel HD video, 16:9, colour with sound, 63:20 min.

Interview by Hou Hanru

What Freedom Is There In Coding?

 Walter Van Beirendonck, W:A.R. (Walter About Rights), 2020

Walter Van Beirendonck, W:A.R. (Walter About Rights), 2020

Walter Van Beirendonck

Still from The Good Fight (CBS), Season 4, 2020

Bianca Heuser on The Good Fight

By Andrew Cannon, Sung Tieu, Scott Cameron Weaver, Natasha Ginwala, and Abhijan Toto

Wassili Franko, Spike, 3D Sculpture, 2020

By Enis Maci & Mazlum Nergiz

 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

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

 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

By Alison M. Gingeras and Jamieson Webster

 Still from Alex Bag, Untitled Fall ’95

Still from Alex Bag, Untitled Fall ’95

Ruba Katrib on Alex Bag's Untitled Fall '95

 David Hammons, Injustice Case, 1970; Pray for America, 1974

David Hammons, Injustice Case, 1970; Pray for America, 1974

Frazer Ward on "Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art"

Why isn't anyone having sex in New York?

Why does New York suck right now?

 Hudson Yards viewed from Central Park

Hudson Yards viewed from Central Park

By Joanna Kloppenburg

 Greene Naftali Gallery, 508 W. 26th Street

Greene Naftali Gallery, 508 W. 26th Street

Carol Greene interviewed by Kari Rittenbach

By Lucas Mascatello

Mike Pepi on Reed Partners

 Photo: Kira Wilson

Photo: Kira Wilson

Jordan Barse on raiding Barneys

 Banh Mi from Banh Mi Stable in Berlin Mitte

Banh Mi from Banh Mi Stable in Berlin Mitte

By Kenny Schachter, Thea Westreich Wagner, Kasper König, Colin Lang, and Verena Dengler

What is the relationship between art and real estate in New York?

 Corn Nails , 2019 Acrylic on linen on panel, 76 x 66 cm  All images: Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen 

Corn Nails, 2019, Acrylic on linen on panel, 76 x 66 cm 

Courtesy of the artist and GNYP Gallery, Berlin.

The New York-based painter culls Instagram and the internet for her images, with a particular fondness for nail art and food porn. The artist anticipates that her works will be reabsorbed by the social media platforms from which they were taken. Tenzing Barshee and Camila McHugh spoke to Gina Beavers about trying too hard, making your own memes, and the realness of the world.

 Gelatin, The B-Thing , 2000 World Trade Center I. Photo: © Gelitin 

Gelatin, The B-Thing, 2000 World Trade Center I; All images: © Gelitin 

There’s so much mystery surrounding Austrian collective Gelatin’s The B-Thing that some believe it never really took place. This barely plausible architectural intervention on the ninety-first floor of the World Trade Center in 2000 was shown – once and once only – to a lucky handful of invited guests. Among them was artist Maria Hassabi, who witnessed the events on a Sunday morning in Lower Manhattan. By Maria Hassabi 

By Ilaria Leoni, Kurt Woerpel, Ariana Reines, Julia Stoschek, and Jeanne-Salomé Rochat

 Puppies Puppies, Unisom (Sleeping pills), and a Contacts Container (Blue) (Yellow) (Green) , 2017

Puppies Puppies, Unisom (Sleeping pills), Ear Plugs, and a Contacts Container (Blue) (Yellow) (Green), 2017

By Fiona Alison Duncan

Joshua Citarella on online radicalisation

Salvage Art Institute, SAI 0015: materials: aluminium, porcelain; size 10 x 10 cm; damage: 12/24/2008, shattered in fall; claim 05/11/2009; total loss: 05/20/2009; production: 1995; artist: Jeff Koons; title: Red Ballon Dog Ed. 51/66

Photo: Salvage Art Institute  

Dean Kissick on art and autofiction

 © Balenciaga 

© Balenciaga 

Bertie Brandes on the rise of workwear

 Photo: Adriana Lara

Photo: Adriana Lara

Adriana Lara

Have we lost trust in institutions?

 Illustrations by Kurt Woerpel

Illustrations by Kurt Woerpel

Geoffrey Mak and Dominikus Müller take a stand on some recently busted flushes.

 Simone Leigh, Panoptica , 2019, Terracotta, steel, and raf a, 3178 x 305 cm Installation view, “The Hugo Boss Prize 2018: Simone Leigh, Loophole of Retreat”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2019  Photo: David Heald © 2019 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Simone Leigh. Courtesy the artist 

Simone Leigh, Panoptica, 2019, Terracotta, steel, and raf a, 3178 x 305 cm

Installation view, “The Hugo Boss Prize 2018: Simone Leigh, Loophole of Retreat”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2019 

Photo: David Heald © 2019 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Simone Leigh. Courtesy the artist 

"Just as automation envisions a future of work without workers, algorithms envision humanism without humans." By Harry Burke 

Photo: Paige K. Bradley

Is conspiracy the new folklore?

 Still from Jon Rafman’s and Daniel Lopatin’s Sticky Drama , 2015 HD video, 10:34 min  Courtesy Jon Rafman Studios and Daniel Lopatin 

Still from Jon Rafman’s and Daniel Lopatin’s Sticky Drama, 2015 HD video, 10:34 min 

Courtesy Jon Rafman Studios and Daniel Lopatin 

By Aaron Moulton

 TANZ , 2019 Performance view, City of Women, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana, 2019 Renee Copraij, Trixie Schoenherr, Netti Nueganen, Veronica Thompson, Laura Stokes, Florentina Holzinger  © Nada Zgank 

TANZ, 2019

Performance view, City of Women, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana, 2019
Renee Copraij, Trixie Schoenherr, Netti Nueganen, Veronica Thompson, Laura Stokes, Florentina Holzinger 

© Nada Zgank 

By Vanessa Joan Müller

 A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self , 1980 Egg tempera on paper, 20 x 16.5 cm  © Kerry James Marshall. Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York 

A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self, 1980

Egg tempera on paper, 20 x 16.5 cm 

© Kerry James Marshall. Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York 

By Arnold J. Kemp

By Andrea Crespo, Anne Speier, Antoine Catala and Margaret Lee, Britta Thie, and Ion Grigorescu

 Art Workers Coalition, Art Workers Won’t Kiss Ass , performance, 1969 

Art Workers Coalition, Art Workers Won’t Kiss Ass, performance, 1969 

The glamour of the artist’s life turned out to be just another con. So, how did critique manage to turn into protest, whose participants became the unwitting guests of honour in institutional spaces – indoors and well heated, though no longer public? By Victoria Campbell

 Photo: Maanse Jain

Photo: Maanse Jain

Artist John Hill, gallerist Amadeo Kraupa-Tuskany, and curator Susanne Pfeffer talk about technology and democratisation, objects and images, networks and volatility. Moderated by Caroline Busta.

Joan Jonas, Reanimation, 2010/12/13

Installation view, “Joan Jonas”, Tate Modern, London, 2018 

© Joan Jonas, Bildrecht, Wien 2020. Courtesy the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise 

Andrea Lissoni on Joan Jonas’s Reanimation 2010/12/13

 Huang Yong Ping, Serpent d’Océan , 2012, Aluminium, inox, 120 m  © ADAGP Huang Yong Ping. Courtesy the artist and Le Voyage à Nantes 

Huang Yong Ping, Serpent d’Océan, 2012, Aluminium, inox, 120 m 

Photo: archives kamel mennour © ADAGP Huang Yong Ping. Courtesy the artist, Le Voyage à Nantes, and kamel mennour, Paris/London

By Daniel Baumann, Folakunle Oshun, Alisa Prudnikova, Ella Plevin, Joanna Kamm, Hou Hanru, Jay Sanders, Rita Vitorelli, Kolja Reichert, Diana Campbell Betancourt

View of “Gelitin: Vorm – Fellows – Attitude” Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2018

Photo: Jason Schmidt © Bildrecht, Wien 2019

The Importance of Being Anal by Alison M. Gingeras and Jamieson Webster

By Victoria Campbell, Katja Novitskova, Alexandra Germer, Julian-Jakob Kneer, and Alexander Koch

 Photos: Pierre-Alexandre Mateos & Charles Teyssou

Photos: Pierre-Alexandre Mateos & Charles Teyssou

Masc4Masc Musical

 Idomeneo, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg, 2019 © SF/Ruth Walz

Idomeneo, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg, 2019

© SF/Ruth Walz

Paul Feigelfeld on Mozart’s Idomeneo at the Salzburg Festival

 Stills from Barbara McCullough, Shopping Bag Spirits and Freeway Fetishes: Reflections on Ritual Space, 1981 Video, 60 minutes

Stills from Barbara McCullough,
Shopping Bag Spirits and Freeway Fetishes: Reflections on Ritual Space, 1981 Video, 60 minutes

Harry Burke on Barbara McCullough’s Shopping Bag Spirits and Freeway Fetishes: Reflections on Ritual Space, 1981

© Lisa Wassmann

Is migration the only really successful revolution?

Luxembourg Freeport
3BM3 Atelier d’Architecture SA, C. Stendardo / B. Montant, Courage, Switzerland

Biennials are out, freeports are in. The one percent loves storage solutions that allow them to squirrel away art without the burden of taxation. The best artworks are coming soon to a freeport near you, but you won’t be allowed to see them unless you can wheel and deal or pay to play. By Kenny Schachter

Will we ever escape mortality? 

Thebe Magugu, SS18 – Gender Studies

Figures of Fortitude (2018)

Photo: Aart Verrips, creative direction & set: Thebe Magugu, assistant: Nhlanhla Masemola

Fashion has built a trap for itself. The most contemporary medium may still pride itself on being ahead of the curve, but it has fallen prey to a totalised corporate capitalist realism that is closing the door on a new generation. Where will it go with its need to rebel and experiment? By Jeppe Ugelvig

 Illustration: Kurt Woerpel

Illustration: Kurt Woerpel

Lil Internet on Blanck Mass’s new album, Animated Mild Violence 

Friederike Mayröcker in her apartment, September 2019

Photo: Edith Schreiber

Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Friederike Mayröcker

Omsk Social Club, “Inform, Exform, Reform”, 48 hours, Brandenburg, Germany, 2016

Courtesy of Omsk Social Club

Discussion with Omsk Social Club and Ed Fornieles at Liste Basel.

Agnes Martin, Where Babies Come From, 1999 Acrylic and graphite on canvas, 152.4 x 152.4 cm

Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio, New York. Dia Art Foundation; Partial gift, Lannan Foundation 2013 © Agnes Martin/Bildrecht, Wien 2019. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation, New York

Nancy Princenthal on Agnes Martin

La Nona Ora, 1999
Polyester resin, natural hair, accessories, stone, carpet Installation view Palazzo Reale, Sala delle Cariatidi, Milan, 2010

Photo: Zeno Zotti

Francesco Bonami on Maurizio Cattelan

What lies beyond the art market? 

Bas Jan Ader on the Ocean Wave, Chatham Harbor, Massachusetts, 1975

© The Estate of Bas Jan Ader / Mary Sue Ader Andersen, 2019 / The Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York and Bildkunst, Germany. Courtesy of Meliksetian | Briggs, Los Angeles

Some people want to escape into the art world, others want to escape from it. Art offers a refuge from the world as well as a way of engaging with it – politically, socially, aesthetically, philosophically. The challenge is to find a way to escape without escapism. By João Ribas

Photo: Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff

Is escapism the death of art?

Photo: Diana Pfammatter

A panel at Liste Basel with Jenny Borland of Jenny’s, Alexander Shulan of Lomex, Simon Wang of Antenna Space, KJ Freeman of Housing, and Nathaniel Monjaret of Bonny Poon. 

Courtesy of the artist and KÖNIG GALERIE

Dean Kissick on Jeremy Shaw’s Liminals (2017)

 Back and front cover of the catalogue with the exhibition plan drawn by Wang Xingwei Courtesy 1:1

Back and front cover of the catalogue with the exhibition plan drawn by Wang Xingwei

Courtesy 1:1

Fei Lai on “Persistent Deviation/ Corruptionists” (1998) at 10 North 3rd Ring Road, Bldg #3, Basement Floor Beijing

 Above: Maria Nordman, For an Open Park (Bochum Plan) , 1985 Ink on paper, 58 x 77 cm © Maria Nordman & Situation Kunst; Collection Ruhr-University; Bochum

Above: Maria Nordman, For an Open Park (Bochum Plan), 1985 Ink on paper, 58 x 77 cm

© Maria Nordman & Situation Kunst; Collection Ruhr-University; Bochum

Anna Gritz on Maria Nordman’s Room with two doors ( for a public park in Bochum-Weitmar) (1982/1989)

Photo: Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff

By Karl Holmqvist

 Reena Spaulings, The Dealers , 2007 Postcards, postcard rack Courtesy of Campoli Presti

Reena Spaulings, The Dealers, 2007

Postcards, postcard rack

Courtesy of Campoli Presti

Gallerists play a key role in the ecosystem of art and we are grateful to them: for supporting artists, putting on shows, hosting dinners. But swathes of the art market are driven by greed, lying, and back-room deals, all covered by a blanket of secrecy. A look at some of the less savoury tricks of this highly unregulated trade. By Kenny Schachter

 Julian Charrière, The Blue Fossil Entropic Stories I , 2013 © Julian Charrière; VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany. Courtesy DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin

Julian Charrière, The Blue Fossil Entropic Stories I, 2013

© Julian Charrière; VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany. Courtesy DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin

Instead of jetting to Venice, Basel, Hongkong, or New York, you should probably stay at home and read a book, or look at Instagram if you must. Every flight bringing people to artworks and artworks to people adds to the art world’s enormous carbon footprint. Is the value of seeing art IRL really worth it? Nobody can live in the sky for ever. By Mitch Speed

“Über Leben am Land” at Kunst Haus Wien by Klaus Speidel. Friedrich von Berzeviczy-Pallavicini: “Der Hausfreund” at Universitaetsgalerie im Heiligenkreuzer Hof by Maximilian Geymüller. “Peter Friedl: Teatro” at Kunsthalle Wien by Benjamin Hirte. 

By Robin Peckham, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Maria Bernheim, Saim Demircan, Kira Wilson

“Nine Weeks of Art and Action”

Protest at the Whitney Museum in New York in 2019

Photo: Andres Rodriguez

New York has been called Gotham, a modern Gomorrah, Empire City of the New World, the city of dreams, and the capital of the art world. If you fake it in here, you fake it anywhere, right? Rahel Aima on the immorality of New York.

Photo: Charlie Gray

Why are white male artists more valued by the market?

With or without the help of AI, attempts to end the proliferation of fake content and disinformation on social-media platforms are probably doomed to failure. Instead, our posts and likes will continue to exacerbate conflict, strengthen groupthink, and cause mental distress. Why current strategies for fighting harmful messages are unlikely to work. By Rob Horning

Annotated images of the Fomalhaut system from NASA/ESA.

The details show the orbital motion of the planet Fomalhaut b (aka Dagon).

NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI)

How to dress the devil? If there’s one thing we can learn from the canon of villainy it would be that evil rarely requires a stylist. The arts are populated with villains – on both sides of the screen, page, canvas – who know how to work far more dashing cuts than their heroic counterparts. By Ella Plevin

Irena Haiduk, Seductive Exacting Realism. Installation view, Documenta 14, Kassel, 2017

Photo: Anna Shteynshleyger. Produced by Yugoexport

Can freedom be redeemed?

Burschenschaft Hysteria parading in the centre of Vienna, 2018

Photo: Theresa Aigner

It is probably almost impossible for many readers to imagine how bizarre and threatening German and Austrian male student fraternities can be. Their politics typically ranges from nationalistic to extreme right-wing, and men form bonds that last a lifetime and reach into the highest levels of politics, while observing anachronistic rituals and dress codes. The Vienna-based Burschenschaft Hysteria, which is open only to women and claims to be the “ur-fraternity”, recasts the power structures of such associations with spectacular interventions and the demand for a “Golden Matriarchate”. By Sonja Eismann

 Pretend You’re Actually Alive  (2008) Colour and black & white photographs, ink on paper, various ephemera. Installation dimensions variable Courtesy of the artist

Leigh Ledare, Pretend You’re Actually Alive (2008)

Colour and black & white photographs, ink on paper, various ephemera.
Installation dimensions variable

Courtesy of the artist

Victoria Campbell on Micaela Carolan, Leigh Ledare, Reba Maybury

Is art writing always morally compromised?

 Photos: Omer Krieger

Photos: Omer Krieger

By Omer Krieger

 Photograph: Lycien-David Csery

Photograph: Lycien-David Csery

A roundtable discussion at Spike Berlin with Krist Gruijthuijsen, director of KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, New York–based artist Mathieu Malouf, and Nina Power, a cultural critic and theorist living in London. Moderated by Laurie Rojas

Natalia LL, Consumer Art, 1974

Colour photograph, 50 x 60 cm

© Natalia LL. Courtesy lokal_30 gallery, Warsaw

Joanna Warsza on Natalia LL's 1972–75 series “Consumer Art”

Valeria Geselev on “Stolen Arab Art” (2018) at 1:1 Center for Art and Politics, Tel Aviv

Lucia Pietroiusti on Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) (1991)

Photograph: Claudio Fuentes

By Tania Bruguera

Why has moralism taken the place of politics?

“Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2019: Hito Steyerl” at Akademie der Künste by Laurie Rojas; “Bauhaus Imaginista”at Haus der Kulturen der Welt by Lennart Wolff; Andy Warhol at Galerie Buchholz by Bianca Heuser; “The Cabinet of Ramon Haze”at Museum Abteiberg by Dorothea Zwirner

Gina Pane
Io mescolo tutto (I Mix Everything) (1976)

Photo: Françoise Masson; Courtesy Museum of Modern Art, Bologna © Bildrecht, Wien 2019

“You Can't Tweet Adorno” by Alison M. Gingeras & Jamieson Webster

by Peter Kubelka, Fiona Duncan, Justin Polera, Tobias Rehberger, Johanna Meyer-Grohbrügge

The Washhouse of Blessey (1997-2007)

Landscape architectural redesign by the residents and the artist Rémy Zaugg

Alternative models for art patronage are emerging amidst the crisis of neoliberalism. Founded in 1990, New Patrons helps to articulate and realise citizens’ wishes for a public work of art, capable of more than just managing supply and demand. By Dominikus Müller

What is socialist networking?

Ted Nelson invented hypertext and hypermedia and imagined a future of online publishing, public cloud storage, internet cafes, and even realist CGI. But monopolistic megacorporations and social media streams bear little resemblance to the utopian vision of this now octogenarian evangelist for an alternative internet. An interview by Amelia Stein

With an oeuvre that covers everything from agitprop cans stuffed with cow-dung to ergo-dynamic lounge chairs, anyone in search of a new design manifesto would need to start with Victor Papanek, a guru for socially and ecologically responsible design and pedagogy. By Alison J. Clarke

Illustration by Kurt Woerpel

As products and media started to blur into each other, in the wake of a cultural repositioning of the image through social media streams, fashion led the way in turning content into a new art form. By Thom Bettridge

 Cruising Pavilion at Ludlow 38, New York City

Cruising Pavilion at Ludlow 38, New York City

Cruising Pavilion make shows exploring the architectural aspects of cruising culture. They’re interested in widening the definition of “cruising” to mean more than just gay men looking for sex with strangers in public spaces. By Dean Kissick

The Austrian filmmaker talks to Asad Raza about a life in film and how the art of cooking isn’t hard to master.

The origins of the fashion industry’s most provocative and innovative strategies had a forerunner in BLESS, the enigmatic fashion studio founded between Paris and Berlin in the late 1990s. By David Lieske

Wu Tsang’s works blend reality and fantasy, often in collaborations that bring together the languages of performance and storytelling.  On the heels of a move to Athens she talked to Aimee Lin

George Maciunas founded one of the most influential art movements of the 20th century: Fluxus. Embodying its principle that art must not congeal, in everything he did he transformed the lives of artists and in so doing transformed the fate of SoHo. By Gerry Beegan

Can we design our way out of platform capitalism?

Rob Horning on the nasal spray Spravato™

Florence Bonnefous and Pierre Joseph on “Les Ateliers du Paradise” (1990) at Air de Paris in Nice

Juan Downey
Still from “The Laughing Alligator” (1978)

Courtesy LIMA Amsterdam © Bildrecht Wien, 2019

Stefanie Hessler on Juan Downey's The Laughing Alligator (1978)

Charles Stankievech
Still from The Soniferous Æther of The Land Beyond The Land Beyond (2013)

© Charles Stankievech

By Haseeb Ahmed

 The Ayotzinapa Case: A Cartography of Violence Commissioned by and undertaken in collaboration with the Equipo Argentino de Antropologia Forense and Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez for the families of the 43 disappeared, the wounded and killed students, in the town of Iguala, Guerrero

The Ayotzinapa Case: A Cartography of Violence

Commissioned by and undertaken in collaboration with the Equipo Argentino de Antropologia Forense and Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez for the families of the 43 disappeared, the wounded and killed students, in the town of Iguala, Guerrero

We cannot take for granted that the decentralisation of networks, markets, and communication is in itself a good thing. Relations of power just work differently there. Jaya Klara Brekke and Francesco Sebregondi discuss the common ground between Forensic Architecture and blockchain technology.

Décor and theatricality have returned with a vengeance after more than a century of being shunned as art’s lowbrow cousins. Marcel Broodthaers and Palle Nielsen were among the first artists to register the implications of this shift, anticipating the rise of immersion, affective networking, storytelling, surveillance, and monetisation that came along with it. By Antony Hudek

Beatriz González at KW Institute for Contemporary Art by Federica Bueti, Henrike Naumann at Galerie im Turm and Irina Rastorgueva & Thomas Martin BQ by Penny Rafferty in Berlin; Cady Noland at MMK by Bob Nickas in Frankfurt; Jörg Immendorf at Haus der Kunst by Daniela Stöppel in Munich; Mary Beth Edelson at Kunsthalle Münster by Alex Scrimgeour

“Disenchanted beyond belief” by Alison M. Gingeras & Jamieson Webster

by Eoghan Ryan, Franziska Wildförster, Lucas Zwirner, Emily McDermott, and Simon Wang

The 650-page doorstopper Imponderable documents a vast range of objects and ephemera relating to magic and the occult, all from the collection of the artist Tony Oursler. By Philomena Epps

Why should we continue to live as before, when we could become one with our dogs, live as pigs, have butts like fireflies, or turn into something entirely different that cannot yet be imagined? By Dean Kissick

Reality as a clay, malleable simply through the power of thought, is the premise of a magical thinking. Social relationships are giving way to the imagination because it alone can manifest desire and fantasy – just after hitting the return key, that is. By Rob Horning

We seem to be living through the revival of esotericism and technobelief in a disenchanted age, but what we are witnessing is no comeback. The gods we pray to and spells we cast have, in fact, been here all along, now they just bear different names. The reality is that the Enlightenment has yet to come… By Ella Plevin

Lu Yang fuses virtual with actual architectures, luring the viewer into syncretic hells of augmented realities. With high-energy soundtracks and by tapping into the realms of ancient Buddhism, cyberfeminism, and technoreligions, her installations and videos conjure spiritual stimulants, curious deities, death, and posthuman life forms. By Harry Burke

Jim Shaw’s dreams and waking visions tap into the deep reservoir of the American unconscious, which runs through his oeuvre and inspires his neo-surreal sculptural objects and installations. His most ambitious project is the ongoing development of a religion that revolves around a goddess known only as “O”. By Stanya Kahn

from Bali by Ashley Bickerton

Why are people afraid of witches?

 Photo: Bernice Mulenga

Photo: Bernice Mulenga

How does technology change reality?

 Photo by Avery Singer (detail)

Photo by Avery Singer (detail)

Why did you found a blockchain religion?

Why has so much of millennial culture turned towards psychedelics?

Spike brought together American poets and friends CAConrad and Ariana Reines to talk about the relationship between ritual and writing. A conversation about the bones of poetry

 Paul Thek Pyramid/A Work in Progress  at Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1971-72)

Paul Thek
Pyramid/A Work in Progress at Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1971-72)

Lynn Zelevansky on Paul Thek's “Processions” (1969-1973)

The protagonists of Viennese modernism knew that technology and magic are inherently connected. For them it was clear that the spiritual opened new dimensions in a time ruled by science. How does this relate to the resurgence of magic today? By Elisabeth von Samsonow

 Photo: Chris Bliss

Photo: Chris Bliss

Pádraic E. Moore on John McCracken's “Red Pyramid” (1974)

 Kara Walker The Pool Party of Sardanapalus (after Delacroix, Kienholz)  (2017)

Kara Walker
The Pool Party of Sardanapalus (after Delacroix, Kienholz) (2017)

By Bhanu Kapil

What was the style of the 80s?

"Falling in and out of time" by Ella Plevin

Palermo, Vienna, Salzburg, Mönchengladbach, Berlin, Dresden, Frankfurt, Zurich, Basel, Bucharest, London, New York

 From left to right: Herbert Brandl, Peter Pakesch, Heimo Zobernig, Franz West, 1987

From left to right: Herbert Brandl, Peter Pakesch, Heimo Zobernig, Franz West, 1987

Photo: Didi Sattmann

In the early 80s Vienna for the first time had an art scene that wanted to be more than local. A conversation about the extension of the Cologne-New York axis to Vienna, and long nights with John Baldessari. By Edek Bartz & Peter Pakesch

 CryptoKitties

CryptoKitties

In the 80s the artwork became a speculation object. Today blockchain startups are struggling to shake off the last of its aura. By Daniel Keller

The Face and i-D first appeared in London in 1980, inventing the idea of the “style bible”, and with it a new kind of modern youth culture. That cultural moment is clearly over now. But how did it begin, and where did it go wrong? By Dean Kissick

 Still from  American Psycho, 2000 Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman with Huey Lewis and The New's album Fore!  

Still from American Psycho, 2000

Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman with Huey Lewis and The New's album Fore!

 

What is the sound of a decade in which society is consigned to history’s trash heap? One made up of perfect surfaces that hide the suffering beneath. On the music criticism of Patrick Bateman (American Psycho). By Rob Horning

Why is Jean Baudrillard the signature thinker of the 80s?

What did the 80s do to the New York art scene?

by Jessica Diamond, Ed Fornieles, Richard Hoeck & John Miller, Ida Ekblad, Julia Wachtel

 "The Real Estate Show," 123, Delancey Street, New York City, 31.12.1979 - 21.1.1980

"The Real Estate Show," 123, Delancey Street, New York City, 31.12.1979 - 21.1.1980

Photo: Andrea Messner

The 1980s are a distant mirror of the present: careerism, out-of-control consumerism, greed, and brutality. But the prospect of self-destruction can also create a new sense of community. Bob Nickas on collective resistance in an ambivalent decade. 

Joanna Fiduccia on Gretchen Bender's intro credits for "America's Most Wanted"

 Portrait of Christian Leigh from “The Silent Baroque”catalogue

Portrait of Christian Leigh from “The Silent Baroque”catalogue

Sarah Morris and Thaddaeus Ropac on "The Silent Baroque" (1989) in Salzburg

 Rosemarie Trockel Made in Western Germany  (1987)

Rosemarie Trockel
Made in Western Germany (1987)

Lynne Cooke on Rosemarie Trockel's "Made West in Germany" (1987)

 Gran Fury Title  (198X) Courtesy the artist and Gallery X

The New York artist/activist collective Gran Fury emerged in 1988 out of ACT UP. As “individuals united in anger and dedicated to exploiting the power of art to end the AIDS crisis”, they shaped public discourse about AIDS with iconic agitprop imagery.  By Alison M. Gingeras and Jamieson Webster

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Thinking of... (1993)

Within the booming art market of the 1980s, Philippe Thomas radically called into question the star system of the time. On an artist who exposed the paradoxical entanglements of commerce, art, and authorship to set the terms of his own self-erasure. By Barbara Casavecchia

The architects Gins and Arakawa dedicated their lives to immortality. Their designs and buildings force people to develop new behaviours and to change their bodies until one day they no longer need to die. By Elvia Wilk

The past few years have seen the rise of a generation of young rappers who are as surreal as the time from which they have emerged. These figures are like collective hallucinations: they might be amazing or they might be terrible, but all of them are weird. By Dean Kissick

What does it look like on the streets today when democratic elections take place in the centre of Europe, on the right edge of its Union? On politics in public space in Hungary. By Róza El-Hassan

Marianna Simnett pushes her body to the limit – hyperventilating until she faints or injecting Botox into her vocal cords. Her films are about the complexities of gender, contamination, robot cockroaches, cosmetic manipulation, sworn virgins, and Freudian experiments. By Ella Plevin

Can you separate an artist and their work? What if their life is itself an artwork? In the early 1970s Otto Muehl founded a commune that defied social norms and declared it a revolutionary artwork. About a failed experiment and what it can tell us about our own time. By Alison Gingeras & Jamieson Webster

Sandra Mujinga plays with economies of visibility and disappearance. The traditional identity politics of presence is reversed in order to operate out of hidden realms. If everything is surveilled, the biggest potential lies in not being seen. By Jeppe Ugelvig

What would Édouard Glissant fight for?

By Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian

 © Marina Faust

© Marina Faust

"Margiela/Galliera, 1989-2009" at Palais Galliera in Paris by Marina Faust

New York Fashion Week. By Natasha Stagg

Colette and the end of the concept store. By Dominikus Müller

Micro-Influencing by Natasha Stagg

What is the new luxury in fashion?

What is the meaning of style?

How fashion makes us consent to the absurdity of consensus reality; or, why being wrong together is more interesting than being right alone. By Rob Horning

Making an artwork out of a Louis Vuitton bag seems obvious today, but Sylvie Fleury has been doing collaborations with luxury fashion brands since before they were cool. She uses muscle cars, eyeshadow and runways as material, reminding us of the absurd nature of fashion, and perhaps, of art itself. By Dean Kissick

 Bernadette Corporation with Benjamin Huseby; BC Lifestyle INT 2 – Ruby (2013

Bernadette Corporation with Benjamin Huseby; BC Lifestyle INT 2 – Ruby (2013

In spite of making a vast amount of work ranging from sleek art installations in gallery spaces and collectively authored books to fashion and photography, the New York collective Bernadette Corporation has managed to stay just out of focus. By Ella Plevin

Lukas Duwenhögger makes paintings that play with the tangled connections between the visible and invisible, desire and distance, transparency and opacity – all at the same time. By Dominikus Müller

Isa Genzken at König Galerie by Dominikus Müller, Preis der Nationalgalerie by Chloe Stead, Parapolitics at HKW by Alexander Scrimgeour, Salvage Art Institute at BNKR in Munich by Daniela Stöppel, Alexander Kluge at Folkwang Museum in Essen by Moritz Scheper

Glopartheid. By Mohammad Salemy

Marcel Broodthaers, Parle Ecrit Copie (1972–73)
Three typewriters, letterpress on canvas, each 34 x 31.5 x 38 cm, © Estate Marcel Broodthaers, Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery

Contemporary Art Writing Daily write anonymous exhibition reviews. Their writing is curlicued, abbreviated, crisp – criticism is reduced to its essentials. By Alexander Scrimgeour

The familiar, traditional American mall is being reimagined as an uncanny postmodern fantasy. By Dean Kissick

 Martin Kippenberger,  METRO-Net Skulptur: Transportabler U-Bahn-Eingang (1997)

Martin Kippenberger, METRO-Net Skulptur: Transportabler U-Bahn-Eingang (1997)

Documenta X (1997) by Daniel Baumann

Gustave Courbet, “La dame au podoscaphe". By Daniela Stöppel

What is the most important recent technological break-through?

Why is the new so attractive?

A spate of recent closures suggest that the gallery model is under increasing pressure. Gallerists Vanessa Carlos, Jean-Claude Freymond-Guth & Kevin Rubén Jacobs talk the situation over.

When a lecture theatre full of zombies and digital artworks is just a few clicks away there is no reason you have to scroll through installation shots on a website documenting of line exhibitions. A text about new formats for presenting digital art. By Natalie Kane

 Pan with Bears  (2017), Courtesy the artist, Metro Pictures, New York, and Tanya Leighton, Berlin

Pan with Bears (2017), Courtesy the artist, Metro Pictures, New York, and Tanya Leighton, Berlin

The Austrian­ born artist and co-founder of the influential image blog VVORK (2006-2012) has never been interested in the difference between digital and real. In his work, he questions the privileged authority of established art institutions. By Chloe Stead

 Gilbert the Cunt and George the Shit , Magazine Sculpture (1969)

Gilbert the Cunt and George the Shit, Magazine Sculpture (1969)

Gilbert & George have been turning themselves into an image for more than fifty years – an image that never quite adds up. In the deadlock of identity politics, their work reminds us of the political power of productive withdrawal. By Dean Kissick 

 Lifestyle Wars (Detail, 2017) Courtesy of the artist, 47 Canal, New York, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Photo: Joerg Lohse,

Lifestyle Wars (Detail, 2017) 
Courtesy of the artist, 47 Canal, New York, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Photo: Joerg Lohse,

The Korean-born New York–based artist Anicka Yi brings musky-husky odors and colorful bacterial cultures into the sanctum of art. Hi-tech meets feminism in her imprecise, subjective, and mysterious work, which stages the future in the present. By Joanna Fiduccia

Wu Tsang at Kunsthalle Münster by Kolja Reichert, "Generation Loss" at Julia Stoschek Collection Düsseldorf by Robert Schulte, Anne Speier at Portikus in Frankfurt by Sofia Leiby, "After the Fact: Propaganda in the 21st Century" at Lenbachhaus München by Christoph Chwatal

Witness Protection. By Ariana Reines

Smartphones and social media have inserted themselves between us and the outside world, but this is an problem in a new form – the pursuit of unmediated experience has always been a hopeless endeavour. By Rob Horning 

Thomas Lawson on Group Material's exhibition "Primer (for Raymond Williams" at Artists Space (1982)

Emily Jacir plans to transform her 127-year-old family home in Bethlehem into an international art centre – Dar Jacir is an ambitious project in which the personal gets political. By Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

Reality can’t be trusted. apparently we are living in a simulation, everybody is talking about post­truth, and “Real food” is an advertising pitch. But reality hasn't disappeared, it's just infused with fiction. By Klaus Speidel

In view of the enduring proximity of art and commerce, why does the art world stubbornly hold on to its hypocritical moralism? On artists who have crossed the line in the sand, whether by founding companies or finding other ways to experiment with alternative models of artistic autonomy. By Martin Herbert

Francesco Vezzoli is mostly associated with the extreme glamour and Hollywood stars of the work he had made around ten years ago. Since then, times have changed. In a moment when celebrity culture has become the hard reality of politics and the art world, nothing is innocent anymore. By Dean Kissick

 STAGING (2017), installation view;  Neue Neue Galerie (Neue Hauptpost), Kassel, documenta 14 

STAGING (2017), installation view; 
Neue Neue Galerie (Neue Hauptpost), Kassel, documenta 14 

The slow, elegant movements of bodies in Maria Hassabi's performances turn them into images that toggle unsettlingly between play, splay, and display. By Harry Burke

Can documentary communicate the truth?

What is the porn punctum?

Has the readymade lost its power?