Archive for September, 2019
By: Art Forum on Monday, September 30th, 2019 at 11:00 pm
GOOD DJS TREAT THEIR RECORDS BADLY. The more you mix other people’s music into your own, the more you have to exploit vinyl’s stubborn physicality, pushing the bounds of that analog zone where
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By: Art Forum on Monday, September 30th, 2019 at 11:00 pm
If you visited the Kassel iteration of Documenta 14, chances are that the exhibition marked your first encounter with the work of Lorenza Böttner (known simply as Lorenza), an armless transgender artist
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By: Art Forum on Monday, September 30th, 2019 at 11:00 pm
“Resentment” was a surprising title for a show of five vibrant, high-spirited paintings, none of which immediately gave off vibes of bitterness or rancor, even if their energy contained an understated
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By: Art Forum on Monday, September 30th, 2019 at 11:00 pm
A United Nations report on global biodiversity and ecosystems confirmed this past May what many in the science community had long claimed: Not only is the earth’s biosphere deteriorating at a rate
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By: Art Forum on Monday, September 30th, 2019 at 11:00 pm
THE WORLD looks pale and wan—as if about to expire—in Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat, an unsparing political, economic, and social satire in which almost every major character gasps for breath
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By: Art Forum on Monday, September 30th, 2019 at 11:00 pm
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By: Art Forum on Monday, September 30th, 2019 at 11:00 pm
“AWAKENINGS” was the latest collaboration between museums in Japan, Korea, and Singapore to loosen the grip of postwar, so-called Western narratives of art. The ambitious curatorial team (Cheng
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By: Art Forum on Monday, September 30th, 2019 at 11:00 pm
IN MY FINAL YEAR AT COLLEGE, I wrote a “senior essay” on AIDS and contemporary art supervised by the visiting critic Craig Owens. When I met with Craig (we were not permitted to call him Professor
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By: Art Forum on Monday, September 30th, 2019 at 11:00 pm
LIVING AND WORKING in a remote Aboriginal community in central Australia, Vincent Namatjira may seem an unlikely oracle for the degenerative condition we call neoliberalism. Yet his paintings
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By: Art Forum on Monday, September 30th, 2019 at 11:00 pm
ASHES TO ASHES . . . Before the recent wave of disquisitions on our planet’s impending demise, there was Agnes Denes’s Book of Dust: The Beginning and the End of Time and Thereafter (1989). A heavily
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