Don’t be taken in by the fancy terms though. Rehberger always wants you to look for the errors and the dissonances that allow us to ‘hack’ the system, to get inside. The glitches are revealing, if only you look. >> Read more
“Always the same thing. How boring! Pedants definitely!” said Oblomov, yawning. Basel is still the best art fair in the world. You knew that already. It runs as smoothly as Swiss Rail. No air-conditioning problems here! Yet there is a growing sense Art Basel is getting predictable. At first, I thought it was just me, […] >> Read more
Artists Exhibited Diane Arbus Richard Artschwager Richard Avedon Francis Bacon Balthus Davide Balula Georg Baselitz Jean-Michel Basquiat Joseph Beuys Dike Blair Glenn Brown Chris Burden Alexander Calder Anthony Caro Maurizio Cattelan John Chamberlain Dan Colen Michael Craig-Martin Gregory Crewdson John Currin Willem de Kooning Walter De Maria Edmund de Waal Alberto Di Fabio Marcel Duchamp […] >> Read more
Abstraction is becoming the Western equivalent of the most masturbatory Literati work. Whether we call it “Zombie Formalism” (Walter Robinson) or “MFA-clever“ (Jerry Saltz), we end up bending for beige. >> Read more
“Quasi-Objects” is a reincarnation and unification, indeed “liberation”, of a selection of Parreno’s works, all within the specific exhibition space at Esther Schipper gallery: creating new hybrids via environment and interbreeding of already-hybrid beasts. >> Read more
How much translation is needed to bring out relationships between different works? The Part In The Story is an exhibition exploring the transmissive qualities of objects, situations, and storytelling, where one can dissolve into the others. >> Read more
Berlin Art Week, combining major museum openings, art berlin contemporary (an art fair), and a panoply of individual exhibitions, talks, happenings, lunches, parties and schmoozing, could be a wonderful thing. >> Read more