Q/A Benjamin Kunkel

Why is the new so attractive?

"In the absence of any belief in progress, innovation in the arts similarly comes to mean simply adding more capacity: more contributions to the Gross Artistic Product..."

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Benjamin Kunkel is an author and a theorist based in New York. 

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Emanuel Layr, Henrikke Nielsen, Sophie Tappeiner; Photo by Katharina Gossow

Emanuel Layr, Henrikke Nielsen, Sophie Tappeiner; Photo by Katharina Gossow

INTERCONTI WIEN: A Boutique Art Fair opens in Vienna

With the country still in lockdown, three Vienna galleries – Emanuel Layr, Croy Nielsen, and Sophie Tappeiner – came up with a new format for an art fair set in the conference halls of a popular hotel in the Austrian capital.

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Surface Noise

BOTTEGA VENETA has found a means to offer a runway show in a bag, complete with photobooks, and a soundtrack on green vinyl.

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Installation View “what fruit it bears” December 4 – January 15, 2021 Peres Projects, Berlin

Installation View “what fruit it bears”, Peres Projects, Berlin; front: Vojtech Kovarik, Laocoon, 2020, Acrylic, spray paint and sand on canvas, 220 x 200 cm 

New Fauves

“what fruit it bears” at Peres Projects, Berlin

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Patrick Panetta, Café Durban , 2020 HD Video and sound 00:04:05 Edition of 3

Patrick Panetta, Café Durban, 2020, HD Video and sound, 00:04:05 min.

Daata Art Fair

COLIN LANG spent a few hours at the Daata Art Fair and thinks you should too!

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Still from Ingmar Bergman,  The Seventh Seal , 1957

Still from Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal, 1957

THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: 2020

DEAN KISSICK reviews a long year.

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All images, Stills from Flavio Mogherini, The Pyjama Girl Case, 1977 , 103 min. (Zodiac Produzioni)

All images, Stills from Flavio Mogherini, The Pyjama Girl Case, 1977, 103 min. (Zodiac Produzioni)

Falling Out: Yellow PJs

COLIN LANG’s on the trail of Gialli, the Italian mystery/horror b-genre that spawned classics like The Pyjama Girl Case (1977). Timely or not, it’s a riot.

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Coco Mademoiselle Perfume by Seth Bogart

Coco Mademoiselle Perfume, Ceramics by Seth Bogart

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: THE KAITLIN PHILLIPS HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE

The holidays are upon us once again, and for this month’s column, KAITLIN PHILLIPS’s forty closest friends have the perfect thing in mind. Links included and you should definitely open them all! 

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Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russell

Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russell

Legacy Russell’s Glitch-y CyberSomatics, A Fourth Wave Feminist Manifesto

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Folio of Adam and Eve expelled from paradise from the Dispersed Falnama (Book of Omens), ca. 1550. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC.

Folio of Adam and Eve expelled from paradise from the Dispersed Falnama (Book of Omens), ca. 1550. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC.

The Downward Spiral: Centrist Dad Ouroboros

A lot’s changed in New York since we last heard from Dean Kissick in October. A president was elected and fresh plywood added to store façades, quickly blanketed in new graffiti hearts. Hope and the 5G conspiracy are pretty tricky things.

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Lorna Simpson, Woman on a Snowball , 2018. © Lorna Simpson. Courtesy of the artist and Houser & Wirth; © Palazzo Grassi, photography Marco Cappelletti

Lorna Simpson, Woman on a Snowball, 2018. © Lorna Simpson. Courtesy of the artist and Houser & Wirth; all images © Palazzo Grassi, photography Marco Cappelletti

“Untitled, 2020. Three perspectives on the art of the present” at Punta della Dogana, Venice

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Untitled , Hair, glue, 75 x 70 x 11 cm 

Untitled, Hair, glue, 75 x 70 x 11 cm 

The Things We Leave Behind

Michael E. Smith at the Vienna Secession

"Not even an early evening series on Austrian TV could have got away with that"

Exhibition Histories: "Please Love Austria!"