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  • In My Dan Flavin Era

    In My Dan Flavin Era

    "Flavin should be shown every winter"

  • It’s Our Party and We’ll Cry If We Want To

    It’s Our Party and We’ll Cry If We Want To

    "between hysteria, parties and consumption"

  • TiChan

    TiChan

    "There is no absolute truth in this world"

  • Every Tangle of Thread and Rope

    Every Tangle of Thread and Rope

    "a potent scent akin to tar"

All Articles

  • In My Dan Flavin Era

    In My Dan Flavin Era

    "Flavin should be shown every winter"

  • It’s Our Party and We’ll Cry If We Want To

    It’s Our Party and We’ll Cry If We Want To

    "between hysteria, parties and consumption"

  • TiChan

    TiChan

    "There is no absolute truth in this world"

  • Every Tangle of Thread and Rope

    Every Tangle of Thread and Rope

    "a potent scent akin to tar"

  • The Greatest Film of All Time

    The Greatest Film of All Time

    Reintroducing Jeanne Dielman

  • Gilded Dead Houseplants

    Gilded Dead Houseplants

    an interview with Hernan Bas

  • Witching Hour

    Witching Hour

    Inside The Horror Show at Somerset House

  • Binge

    Binge

    An interview with Kristy M Chan

  • Flotsam and Jetsam

    Flotsam and Jetsam

    On Veronica Ryan at Alison Jacques

  • Eat The Rich

    Eat The Rich

    On The White Lotus, Triangle of Sadness & The Menu

  • Horsing Around

    Horsing Around

    An interview with Kate Groobey

  • Home Body

    Home Body

    An interview with Tschabalala Self

  • Today's Gift, Tomorrow's Commodity

    Today's Gift, Tomorrow's Commodity

    On Lloyd Corporation at Carlos/Ishikawa

  • Show and Tell

    Show and Tell

    Live event

  • Inside Assemble's Creative Process

    Inside Assemble's Creative Process

    an interview with Assemble

  • Feasting with Caroline Wong

    Feasting with Caroline Wong

    "For Wong, the parallels between eating and painting run deep"

  • Immaterial World

    Immaterial World

    "a cross between Tekken 3 and PC Music"

  • Best in Show

    Best in Show

    What to see at Frieze London 2022

  • Iran's Feminist Icons

    Iran's Feminist Icons

    Soheila Sokhanvari’s Rebel Rebel

  • Fictitious Capital

    Fictitious Capital

    Inside the salacious cruelty of Season Two of Industry

  • Who Pulls the Strings?

    Who Pulls the Strings?

    On puppetry and sedition

  • The Search

    The Search

    An interview with Andra Ursuţa

  • How We Shot After Yang

    How We Shot After Yang

    an interview with Benjamin Loeb

  • Striking Gold with Olga de Amaral

    Striking Gold with Olga de Amaral

    "mist-like and mystical"

  • The Girl with the Dog

    The Girl with the Dog

    On Milton Avery

  • Endless Eggs

    Endless Eggs

    On Maria Bartuszová at Tate

  • Rene Matić: upon this rock

    Rene Matić: upon this rock

    'What saves us?'

  • The Performance Problem

    The Performance Problem

    Out of the Margins at Whitechapel Gallery

  • Flesh Jubilation

    Flesh Jubilation

    On Carolee Schneemann

  • Change / Channel

    Change / Channel

    "the technology of storytelling"

  • Show me your bruises, then

    Show me your bruises, then

    On Zoë Buckman's BLOODWORK

  • A Masterpiece to Pay the Rent

    A Masterpiece to Pay the Rent

    Welcome to Penny World

  • Wow, that’s so postcard!

    Wow, that’s so postcard!

    On Lydia Blakeley's 'The High Life'

  • On Soft Acid

    On Soft Acid

    "seams, zippers, and stitching abound"

  • Nope and the Spectre of the Spectacular

    Nope and the Spectre of the Spectacular

    Has Peele lost his touch? Nope.

  • Dead Cat Bounce

    Dead Cat Bounce

    an oratorio about finance and catastrophe

  • The Art of Not Giving a Fuck

    The Art of Not Giving a Fuck

    From Raphael to TikTok

  • Into the Black Fantastic

    Into the Black Fantastic

    'an arresting sense of agency'

  • Staged Whispers

    Staged Whispers

    "ASMR is the answer to all the questions we’re facing"

  • The Stuff That Dreams Are Made On

    The Stuff That Dreams Are Made On

    "a form of lucid psychedelia"

  • Can You Judge a Record by its Cover?

    Can You Judge a Record by its Cover?

    "off the domestic shelf onto the walls of the gallery"

  • Everything Everywhere: the Multiverse Epidemic

    Everything Everywhere: the Multiverse Epidemic

    "living in the Darkest Timeline"

  • Is TikTok About to Change the Future of Cinema?

    Is TikTok About to Change the Future of Cinema?

    the social media giant cosies up to Cannes

  • Vivien Zhang and the Paradoxes of the Digital Age

    Vivien Zhang and the Paradoxes of the Digital Age

    "repetition and malfunction"

  • The Many Faces of Pabi Daniel

    The Many Faces of Pabi Daniel

    "vibrant colour on runway-ready figures"

  • Letting Off Steam with Hew Locke's Procession

    Letting Off Steam with Hew Locke's Procession

    "the mindful vandal has struck again"

  • Redefining Messy with The Worst Person in the World

    Redefining Messy with The Worst Person in the World

    "a refreshing change of pace"

  • Staging Identity with Katinka Lampe

    Staging Identity with Katinka Lampe

    "the rejects on my camera roll"

  • If Ye is Jesus, We Are the Romans

    If Ye is Jesus, We Are the Romans

    "everyone’s favourite maniacal narcissist"

  • Whatever Happened to Jules?

    Whatever Happened to Jules?

    "relegated to the sidelines"

  • Relevant and Alive with Sophie Ruigrok

    Relevant and Alive with Sophie Ruigrok

    "a lot of art is tricks"

  • Danielle Dean's Amazon Rebellion

    Danielle Dean's Amazon Rebellion

    "A collective moment occurs with energy and anger"

  • Lonely Planets for a Lonely Planet

    Lonely Planets for a Lonely Planet

    "imaginative escape and the curtailment of physical freedom"

  • How Artists Are Reinventing Anna

    How Artists Are Reinventing Anna

    'Anna was an enigma to me'

  • Filmmaking and Feeling in The Souvenir Part 2

    Filmmaking and Feeling in The Souvenir Part 2

    "What does it make you FEEL?!"

  • Monstering with Suchitra Mattai

    Monstering with Suchitra Mattai

    "I’m rewriting history"

  • The old-fashioned, modern romance of Licorice Pizza

    The old-fashioned, modern romance of Licorice Pizza

    "In a city of stars, Alana is still waiting for her chance to shine"

  • We Need To Keep Derek Jarman’s Protest Alive

    We Need To Keep Derek Jarman’s Protest Alive

    "If anything, Jarman’s protest is only just beginning."

  • Sophie Larrimore, Why So Many Poodles?

    Sophie Larrimore, Why So Many Poodles?

    "O how far the noble poodle has fallen!"

  • The Horror of the Body in Julia Ducournau’s Titane

    The Horror of the Body in Julia Ducournau’s Titane

    "Why is watching Titane so painfully magnetic?" 

  • Chasing Rainbows with Betsy Bradley

    Chasing Rainbows with Betsy Bradley

    "a dance between myself and the paint"

  • How Richard Wilson Made Slipstream

    How Richard Wilson Made Slipstream

    “Slipstream was that optimistic up and away"

  • All at sea with Lubaina Himid

    All at sea with Lubaina Himid

    "That grey sea glimpsed through the window"

     

  • The Clarity and Mystery of Manshen Lo

    The Clarity and Mystery of Manshen Lo

    “One should feel the brush penetrating the paper without breaking it to make a good line”

  • Flying High with Jacob Hashimoto

    Flying High with Jacob Hashimoto

    "using kites opened the language of my work to huge possibilities."

  • On Mit Jai Inn’s Dreamworld

    On Mit Jai Inn’s Dreamworld

    "By connecting his work with its environment, Mit aims to circulate positive energy between them"

  • Why Are People So Weird About Wes Anderson?

    Why Are People So Weird About Wes Anderson?

    "Anderson's films are akin to Fabergé eggs"

  • Making Fur Fly: WeiXin Quek Chong's deepdreams_sublimed

    Making Fur Fly: WeiXin Quek Chong's deepdreams_sublimed

    "from niche kinks to the all-too-human desire for intimacy"

  • Bad Boy For Life: Duality in the work of Noah Davis

    Bad Boy For Life: Duality in the work of Noah Davis

    "Davis’ paintings toggle between chronicle and fable as compellingly as a daydream"

  • Inside Maggi Hambling's Sketchbook: 6am

    Inside Maggi Hambling's Sketchbook: 6am

    "The ink hits the paper in unrepeatable, inerasable formations."

  • Bambou Gili's Nights in Shining Armour

    Bambou Gili's Nights in Shining Armour

    "The levels of imposter syndrome do not bear thinking about."

  • Uncanny Edens | On Esther Janssen's Silence

    Uncanny Edens | On Esther Janssen's Silence

    "Black as tar, dull and still and reflective as a smart phone"

  • Review | The Unbearable Lightness of Noguchi

    Review | The Unbearable Lightness of Noguchi

    "Why is it a bad thing that this Noguchi retrospective feels like IKEA?"

  • Made on the Wing: Sophie Barber's Love Birds

    Made on the Wing: Sophie Barber's Love Birds

    "shrinking sculpture, people, places, into something you can hold in your hand."

  • Carlos Idun-Tawiah: the People's Choice

    Carlos Idun-Tawiah: the People's Choice

    "highly stylised and yet utterly natural"

  • Portrait of an Artist: Hugo Huerta Marin x FKA Twigs

    Portrait of an Artist: Hugo Huerta Marin x FKA Twigs

    "I wasn’t looking for anything; she just started appearing in my life in different ways."

  • Review | Florian Krewer's ride or fly

    Review | Florian Krewer's ride or fly

    "despite all this aggression and NSFW snapshots, it’s all a bit, well, cute? "

  • Bazaar Blends: An Interview with Hassan Hajjaj

    Bazaar Blends: An Interview with Hassan Hajjaj

    "I like shooting in the street, you get a different vibe.

  • PlinthPlinth | Jinyong Park

    PlinthPlinth | Jinyong Park

    "words slipping away from their referents"

  • Pitching The Mound

    Pitching The Mound

    "Gee, now you mention it – nothing makes me part quicker from cash than hiking up a 25-metre hill!"

  • The Power of Seduction in the Work of Mahtab Hussain

    The Power of Seduction in the Work of Mahtab Hussain

    "I wanted some of that power, because it’s seductive. How do I hold myself like that?"

  • The Reset: Megan Piper

    The Reset: Megan Piper

    "It’s not something you can X-ray"

  • In Broad Daylight: Margaret Courtney-Clarke

    In Broad Daylight: Margaret Courtney-Clarke

    "using photography to find a listener for the people."

  • Michael Rakowitz and Daniel Taylor on 'April is the Cruellest Month'

    Michael Rakowitz and Daniel Taylor on 'April is the Cruellest Month'

    "an inconvenient reminder in some ways of what really happens"

  • The Reset: Habda Rashid

    The Reset: Habda Rashid

    "it comes down to really knowing the community you're working with"

  • Introducing Sketched

    Introducing Sketched

    "a fresh glimpse of the creative process"

  • Disrupting the Male Gaze: An Interview with Carlota Guerrero

    Disrupting the Male Gaze: An Interview with Carlota Guerrero

    "it is crucial having women portraying women in order to change the game"

  • The Reset: Window Swap

    The Reset: Window Swap

    "wanderlust, slow-looking, and trading places"

  • The Reality on the Ground

    The Reality on the Ground

    "These oil wells should have been a blessing, but they have become a curse"

  • 20 Years of Eden

    20 Years of Eden

    "from an incredible destination into a movement"

  • “The Suburbanisation of Life is Not the Only Solution”

    “The Suburbanisation of Life is Not the Only Solution”

    "fervent exploration of unchecked suburban expansion"

  • ‘The observer’ in us: Medina Dugger on art, activism, and optimism

    ‘The observer’ in us: Medina Dugger on art, activism, and optimism

    "bold bursts of colour dot the cityscape"

  • Thread by Thread: An Interview with Anya Paintsil

    Thread by Thread: An Interview with Anya Paintsil

    "textile art is not a frivolous hobby"

  • No Justice = No Peace

    No Justice = No Peace

    Black Lives Matter

  • Gardener's World: A Botanical Obsession

    Gardener's World: A Botanical Obsession

    How ceramicist Reiko Kaneko's green-fingered obsession found its way onto her new collection.

  • Degrees of Truth

    Degrees of Truth

    Langlands & Bell at Sir John's Soane's Museum

  • Portraits of the Planet

    Portraits of the Planet

    "We’ve been adorning our bodies for millennia." Abe Odedina

  • Celebrating the Collective

    Celebrating the Collective

    "Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere." Millicent Fawcett

  • Elmgreen, Dragset and The Whitechapel Pool

    Elmgreen, Dragset and The Whitechapel Pool

    "Humour lets us set new terms."

  • Osman Yousefzada, Being Somewhere Else at Ikon Gallery

    Osman Yousefzada, Being Somewhere Else at Ikon Gallery

    "As the first generation you are always the sacrificial one and you have to bear fruit."

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