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Manuel Rossner, New Float , 2022

Manuel Rossner, New Float, 2022

Melting the Metaverse

The artist Manuel Rossner on adding digital layers to the “real” world.

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Maria Eichhorn, “Relocating a Structure,” German Pavilion 2022, 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennaledi Venezia, 2022

Maria Eichhorn, “Relocating a Structure,” German Pavilion 2022, 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennaledi Venezia, 2022

Tectonic Autopsy: The German Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale

What dark secrets are hidden behind the walls of the German Pavilion? Maria Eichhorn makes them visible.

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The Temenos site, from afar. Photo: Rob Madole

The Temenos site from afar. Photo: Rob Madole

Can an Avant-Garde Filmmaker Save Us From the Twenty-First Century?

Forget the internet. Forget medication. What you need is an eighty-hour-long film to cure your ailments.

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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 performance “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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