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As Groys notes in the opening passage of his essay, “On the New”, “We experience art history first of all as represented in our museums.” One might add, to be glib with Marx—and why not? —, secondly as farce. >> Read more

Inga Svala Thorsdottir and Wu Shanzhuan's manifesto and series of works titled Thing's Right(s), a revision of the 1948. >> Read more

“Has the decision to host the Olympics not yet been made? Why is it that we dare not do such a thing?” —Deng Xiaoping, 1990 >> Read more

As the by-product of international expositions, the biennial/triennial/multi-ennial model not only shapes the development of modern and contemporary art history, it is also intimately tied to the course of modernity... >> Read more

Recently, I came across a conver­sation between Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht (in the former’s book Understanding Brecht, first published in 1966)... >> Read more

Berlin-based art collective DIS has revealed the list of artists for the Berlin Biennial >> Read more

The strength of "Bentu" lies in the way it chooses to focus on a few strong, individual artworks.
 
 
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The city of Yekaterinburg, nestled deep in the Russian heartland almost 2000 km east of Moscow, might not be the most obvious site for an international biennial... >> Read more

Good Scott/Bad Scott appraisals of the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial.
 
 
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Steyerl's work is so cogent because, as a provocateur, she is able to coherently foreground the mechanisms of art that have long been buried and ignored. As Steyerl herself says: Too Much World. >> Read more