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JR Perrotin, London, UK
In 2017, the French street artist JR staged a giant installation at the US-Mexico border wall, with guests enjoying a meal on either side.
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Leah Ke Yi Zheng
In ‘Machine(s)’, her first solo exhibition at Layr, Wuyishan-born, Chicago-based artist Leah Ke Yi Zheng continues to confront the conventional role of canvas as passive support in works whose physical shape is integral to their meaning and whose mutable, translucent surfaces are imbued with an almost-bodily presence.
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Caught in a Landslide
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and KINDL, Berlin, Germany
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Typologien
In the age of AI deep fakes and disinformation, dissecting the context and influence of image production is more important than ever.
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C'est Marseille, bébé
Dossier: Four love letters to Marseille – penned by curators and writers – celebrate the cultural and political spirit of France’s second city
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Banu Cennetoğlu
In ‘BEING SAFE IS SCARY’, Turkish artist Banu Cennetoğlu reflects upon the adversities of the migrant experience, hinting at the extraordinary powers that governments can wield in the guise of protection.
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They Began to Talk
Against the background of an endless vibra-tion, birds chirp as trains rumble by.
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In Our Own Backyard
‘How many feminists do you need to change an electric bulb?’ asked Indian writer and activist Kamla Bhasin and author and illustrator Bindia Thapar in their book Laughing Matters (2004).
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Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Profile: From drone strikes to wind turbines, the artist's latest works examine the weaponization of noise and the politics of listening
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Ilê Sartuzi
During my visit to Ilê Sartuzi’s current exhibition, ‘Trick’, at Museu de Arte Contemporânea in São Paulo, an alarm went off, blaring for what felt like an eternity.
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Postcard from Monaco
Out of Office: Ivana Cholakova spins the wheel of chance
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Sadao Hasegawa
A naked, muscled youth appears to rocket into space in Sadao Hasegawa’s That Floating Feeling (1980). His body throbs magenta, while his face - impassive as a mask - is crowned by flamelike hair. Both human and ethereal, he exhales a stream of starry breath, while the tips of his fingers sparkle: flesh becoming cosmic.
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Jack Whitten
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
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Sophie Calle
At Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, the French photographer and conceptual artist Sophie Calle presents an assortment of projects deferred or abandoned over the course of her 40-year career.
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Mythic Shores
Essay: David Campany analyzes historical and contemporary photographic representations of the Mediterranean Sea
9 min |
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Julien Berthier
Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
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Julien Creuzet
The Bell, Providence, USA
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Laura Owens
Amid the visual overwhelm on display in Laura Owens’s eponymous exhibition, which spans two of Matthew Marks Gallery’s Manhattan spaces, an abiding image is the candy cigarette.
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Arpita Singh
A cluster of small, lemon-yellow islands - each shaped exactly like Cuba - hovers in a milky body of water.
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Against Despair
How Istanbul's contemporary artists have created pockets of resistance in the heart of the city
6 min |
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Xin Liu
Just two works make up ‘The Permanent and the Insatiable’, Xin Liu’s solo show at Management in New York.
2 min |
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A Promise of Return
Remapping: Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme's multi-disciplinary archive of Palestinian subjectivity
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Tom Hardwick-Allan
The works in Tom Hardwick-Allan’s current exhibition at South Parade are exact reflections of its title, ‘Low Relief and Foil’: a foil is both the trail that a hunted animal leaves as it passes through its environment and a plot device by which a character is defined by its inverse.
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Mahtab Hussain
In August 2024, at a time when British cities were blighted by racist riots, Birmingham's Muslim community braced itself as rumours spread of a far-right rally.
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‘The work is about how history lingers in the present, how violence persists and why people identify with it.
Interview: Claudia Pagès Rabal talks to Kyle Dancewicz about her work tracing the surface of history across video, performance and sculpture
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Are We All Greeks?
One Take: A look at Charline von Heyl's collage work Athens (2024), ahead of her exhibition at the George Economou
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Steph Huang
In 'Lili Deli', Steph Huang's exhibition at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the Taiwan-born, London-based artist sticks a candle in the wine bottle, so to speak, clinging to the remnants of delightful indulgence.
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Tomokazu Matsuyama
When Bijutsu Techo, Japan's authoritative art journal since 1948, devoted its entire June 2021 issue to Japan-born, Brooklyn-based artist Tomokazu Matsuyama, critics erupted, questioning the decision to spotlight someone they deemed insufficiently Japanese, even inauthentic.
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Berlinde De Bruyckere
A few months ago at a gallery dinner, I asked a German collector about the last work of art that had wowed him.
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Patty Chang
BANK NYC, New York, USA
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