Editorial

Opinion - 18 Aug 2017

Site Lines

The removal of the Confederate monuments in Baltimore shows decisiveness after years of inaction – already they stand as sites of counter-memory

By Ian Bourland

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Tue Greenfort, 'Tue Greenfort Eats den Frie', 2017, installation view, Den Frie, Copenhagen. Courtesy: Den Frie, Copenhagen 

Review - 18 Aug 2017

Tue Greenfort

Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark

By Maria Kjær Themsen
Pepe the Frog, a meme that has been adopted online as a symbol of nationalism and alt-right sentiment. Courtesy: Twitter

Culture Digest - 18 Aug 2017

Weekend Reading List

Goodbye Pepe? From diving into the LA Jobber Market to the women of the alt-right: what to read this weekend

News - 18 Aug 2017

Briefing

Yayoi Kusama to open her own museum; Confederate monuments removed in Baltimore; David Roberts Art Foundation to leave London

Review - 17 Aug 2017

Edward Krasiński

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

By Krzysztof Kościuczuk

City Report - 17 Aug 2017

Dark Energy

Tracing the constellation of performances across Naples and Stromboli in this year’s Volcano Extravaganza, directed by Eddie Peake

By Melissa Pellico

Opinion - 16 Aug 2017

70th Locarno Film Festival

From a tribute to Straub/Huillet to Valerie Massadian’s portrait of teenage motherhood, the turn to real situations and people for fiction films

By Ela Bittencourt

Review - 16 Aug 2017

William E. Jones

David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

By Travis Diehl

Opinion - 15 Aug 2017

Contested Constellation

Japan’s growing number of art festivals tread a precarious path between state-sponsored leisure-culture and soft-power machinery

By Andrew Maerkle

News - 15 Aug 2017

Briefing

‘Trumpy the Rat’ mocks US president; artists evicted from Beijing’s Caochangdi; Latin American galleries launch cooperative model in LA

Sheela Gowda,  2017, installation view, Ikon Gallery. Courtesy: Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; photograph: Stuart Whipps

Review - 14 Aug 2017

Sheela Gowda

Ikon, Birmingham, UK

By Emilia Terracciano

City Report - 14 Aug 2017

Summer of Love

Fifty years after the term was coined, a show in Samos reflects on ‘the unlikely liaison between love and politics’

By Jennifer Higgie

City Report - 11 Aug 2017

Postcard from Aspen

In the Rocky Mountains resort town, boutique facades hide the remnants of a surprising counterculture 

By Evan Moffitt

Culture Digest - 11 Aug 2017

Weekend Reading List

The dystopian promise of the fidget spinner, 'family values' and neoliberalism, and visions of art after social collapse: what to read this weekend

News - 11 Aug 2017

Briefing

Pussy Riot members detained; Pope.L launches ‘Flint Water Project’; Ghetto Biennale participating artists announced

Review - 11 Aug 2017

The 57th Venice Biennale

Arsenale and Giardini, Venice, Italy

By Chris Wiley

Opinion - 10 Aug 2017

Under A Cloud

SoundCloud has been invaluable to the new music community for both documentation and discovery – now the audio-sharing platform is in peril

By Tim Rutherford-Johnson

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Summer of Love
Fifty years after the term was coined, a show in Samos reflects on ‘the unlikely liaison between love and politics’

City Report

Postcard from Aspen
In the Rocky Mountains resort town, boutique facades hide the remnants of a surprising counterculture 

News

Briefing
Pussy Riot members detained; Pope.L launches ‘Flint Water Project’; Ghetto Biennale participating artists announced

Review

The 57th Venice Biennale
Arsenale and Giardini, Venice, Italy

Opinion

Under A Cloud
SoundCloud has been invaluable to the new music community for both documentation and discovery – now the audio-...

Profile

The Man Who Discovered Warhol
The extraordinary life of the late, great, gallerist and collector Alexander Iolas

Review

Condo New York
Various venues, New York, USA

Opinion

Something in the Air
At a time of instantaneous information and fetishized immersivity, artists are evoking scent as an alchemical, bodily...

Influences

Portfolio: Monira Al Qadiri
With her current show at Gasworks, London, the Kuwaiti artist shares some influential images

Opinion

On Shaky Ground
20 years after Hong Kong’s handover to China, a new generation of artists dive into the city-state’s unknown futures...

Opinion

Class Languages
‘Klassensprachen’ engaged artists, writers and publishers in soul-searching around the interlinking of class, language...

City Report

Postcard from Guatemala
In lieu of institutional support, artists are working together to achieve a remarkable self-sufficiency

Opinion

Completely Unprofessional
From being citizens to lovers, the most important things in life can’t be professionalized. Is it time for some...

Critic's Guide

Critic’s Guide: Edinburgh
From an inflatable anti-capitalist dragon to the shattered shadow of Robert Burns: highlights from this year’s...

Opinion

Buffer Zone
The City of London’s annual sculpture park reveals the complex interplay between global corporations, urban space and ‘...
Romare Bearden, Pittsburgh Memory, 1964, mixed media collage and graphite on board, 22 x 30 cm. Courtesy: © Romare Bearden Foundation / DACS, London / VAGA, New York 2017

Opinion

‘Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power’
Successfully layering a broader socio-historical narrative onto a period of radical non-conformity, this is an...

Opinion

The Point is to Change It
Trump’s trashing of the Paris Climate Accord makes it clear: we can't be satisfied with art about the political, art...

City Report

Les Rencontres d'Arles 2017
With a strong surrealist strain, and including a welcome number of female artists, highlights from the 48th edition of...

Video

Artists' Film - 18 Aug 2017

Mr Pharmaceuticals

An exclusive preview of Hannah Perry's short film for Channel 4: Random Acts, broadcast Monday 21 August at midnight

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Function: Barber & Osgerby

In the second of a new six-part film series, Design Matters, Barber & Osgerby talk about how function informs their designs

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Alasdair Gray
Leyden Gallery

London

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Ross Manning, dichroic filter piece (extended projection), 2012-14. Courtesy: the artist and Milani Gallery
Ross Manning
IMA

Brisbane

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Douglas Gordon: ‘Black Burns’
Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Edinburgh

31 Jul
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Charlotte Barker, ‘Flotilla’, 2017. Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. Photo: Graeme Yule
Charlotte Barker: ‘Flotilla’
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop

Edinburgh

29 Jul
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‘Plant Scenery of the World’
Inverleith House

Edinburgh

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‘New Edition’
Edinburgh Printmakers

Edinburgh

28 Jul
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Shannon Te Ao, With the sun aglow, I have my pensive moods, 2017
Shannon Te Ao
Gladstone Court

Edinburgh

27 Jul
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Zoë Walker and Neil Bromwich, A Plea For Common Ownership, 2017. Photo: Mark Pinder
Zoë Walker and Neil Bromwich
Trinity Apse

Edinburgh

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Courtesy: Studio Ettore Sottsass
Ettore Sottsass
The Met Breuer

New York

21 Jul
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‘Daughters of Penelope’
Dovecot Studios

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‘Carnival’
Massimo De Carlo

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Gasworks

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