COLIN LANG is a writer living in Berlin. He is a former senior editor at Spike and once wrote the column “Falling Out.”
In Berlin, the reconstruction of a pair of 90s-era exhibitions prompts the question: Was Majerus the 20th century’s last conceptualist, or the new millennium’s first art-world troll?
A legend of the Viennese avante-garde flies solo in a recent exhibition of paintings and drawings at Peres Projects, Berlin.
In the picturesque town of Bergen, Norway, a group show dedicated to the ocean promised to pay tribute to the water’s siren call – and the oil tanker’s – in a port city filled with both.
Are photos political, or simply passive containers for the ideologies that produced them? Colin Lang ponders on a tour of the photography triennial RAY 21, now in its fourth iteration around Frankfurt...
At Beijing Gallery Weekend, smaller off-spaces and well-established non-profit institutions like UCCA, M Woods, and Beijing Inside-Out alike showcased the enthusiasm, energy, and drive of this propiti...
The Daata fair is here again, but pay attention, the offerings are not for the easily distracted. From formalist experiments to fictional journeys through a painted forest to pranks with a potent poli...
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy at Museum Frieder Burda – Salon Berlin
Because you couldn’t make it out in person, Bottega Veneta offered a runway in a bag, complete with photobooks and a soundtrack on green vinyl. Is Salon 01 London just the beginning?
What was once a moniker employed to criticize the wild, decorum-less painting of Henri Matisse, André Derain, and others, has now come full circle: the tail is wagging the dog.
An online-only fair founded in 2015 comes into its own in the lonely days of lockdown – and finally gives time-based media their fair due.
On the trail of gialli, the Italian mystery/horror b-genre that spawned classics like Flavio Mogherini The Pyjama Girl Case. Timely or not, it’s a riot.
There’s been a debate raging about the postponement of a massive Philip Guston retrospective at four different museums. So, naturally, Colin Lang has to throw his yarmulke into the ring.
It was quite a week and weekends in the German-speaking lands, where Munich’s Various Others, Zurich Art Weekend, and Berlin Gallery Weekend all managed to coincide and jointly usher in the start of t...
From Munich to Berlin, it’s time to celebrate the High Holy Days with a few jaunts to non-commercial spaces and an apologetic butt-dial or two.
A rise in antisemitism during George Floyd summer offers a bracing reminder of the solidary civil rights struggles of Black Americans and American Jews.
Watching the whole system sink into oblivion is good old-fashioned entertainment. But what do we imagine comes than this, particularly for those who drown?
Musing sleeplessly along the flight paths of three leading lights of Austrian (Catholic) literature: Robert Musil, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Peter Handke.
Nudged by a Berlin exhibition on DIY printing, a historical tour through V. Vale’s RE/Search and Wallace Berman’s Semina opens onto a new horizon: Spike is starting a zine!
Never mind our infinite screens: Our eyes locked down with the rest of our bodies, the moment calls for the mind to be dazzled by musicians who could not see.
Next year in Jerusalem? What about this year in Berlin (and Florida, and California)? At least in this plague, the diaspora can break matzah together on Zoom.
With fast and slow mixed up, noisy, falling apart, the lucky among us can enjoy home as a kind of residency. Let the record player play!