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City Report - 18 May 2018

Circling Around São Paulo

Chris Wiley undertakes a gallery crawl during SP-Arte, taking in shows by Hilma af Klint, Paulo Nimer Pjota and Nicolás Paris

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City Report - 21 May 2018

All Day in Marseille

How do you fit 70 exhibitions, 85 partners, 150 artists, and the contents of more than 48 maps and leaflets into 24 hours?

Review - 21 May 2018

Sophie Reinhold: Why Talk of Love at a Time Like This?!

Spectral lone female figures pose and recline in a series of nebulous paintings on view at Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich

Profile - 18 May 2018

Tom Wolfe (1931–2018)

The US writer, who died last week, brought a quality of inestimable importance to the modern novel: a mind that was wholly in tune with the times

News - 18 May 2018

Sean Combs Revealed as the Buyer of Kerry James Marshall’s Record Breaking Painting

The $21M painting was the highest price ever paid for a work by a living African American artist at auction

Culture Digest - 18 May 2018

Weekend Reading List: What Our Response to Childish Gambino’s ‘This is America’ Says About Fandom as Criticism

Royal bodies, the ‘incel’ mindset and those Childish Gambino hot-takes: what to read this weekend

News - 18 May 2018

Germany Plans Arts Budget Boost of $356 Million; Says ‘Culture is the Foundation of a Democratic Society’

In further news: women wearing rainbow badges beaten in Beijing’s 798; gallerists Georg Kargl and Richard Gray have passed away

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Review - 18 May 2018

Assaf Gruber: Spreading Rumours

The artist explores the interplay between fact and fiction, and the individual versus the collective, at Ujazdowski Castle CCA, Warsaw

News - 17 May 2018

Newly Discovered Rembrandt Picked Up For $185,000 By Eagle-Eyed Dealer

It’s the first newly discovered work by the Dutch master in almost half a century

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Review - 17 May 2018

Takeaway Truths: Dafna Maimon's Family Business

Exploring self-exoticization and the migrant experience, the artist reprises her father's kebab shop as a cyclical performance at Kim?, Riga 

Opinion - 17 May 2018

Women in the Arts: Sandra Patron

‘Coping as a woman in France is a daily battle: the aggression can be subtle, and you always have to push harder to make yourself heard’

Profile - 17 May 2018

Double Estrangement: Zhao Gang’s Memories of China

A mix of unashamed nudes and demure portraits, Zhao Gang's paintings take in 21st-century China with feigned crudeness and humour 

News - 17 May 2018

A$AP Rocky and Ai Weiwei Are Here to Answer the Art World’s Most Eternal Questions

The rapper and artist have thoughts about originality in art; Melania Trump tries graphic design – all the latest art world nonsense

2 minutes

Review - 16 May 2018

The Exquisite Torture of Mona Hatoum’s Heavy Metal Sculptures

In ‘Terra Infirma’, the artist creates a dark and distorted vision of domesticity at Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis

The dilapidated Nissen hut from which Rachel Whiteread will take a cast

News - 16 May 2018

Locals Protest Rachel Whiteread’s Dalby Forest Sculpture, Comparing it to an ‘Inner City Bus Shelter’

Yorkshire residents complain that the concrete sculpture of a ‘Nissen hut’ will attract excrement, vandalism and litter

2 minutes

Profile - 16 May 2018

Per Kirkeby (1938–2018)

Poul Erik Tøjner pays tribute to Denmark’s most important artist since Asger Jorn

Profile - 15 May 2018

Unselfconscious is the New Black for Emerging Artists of Colour

Toyin Ojih Odutola’s portraits of a fictional aristocratic Nigerian family push toward an expanded definition of the ‘black experience’

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Culture Digest

Weekend Reading List: What Our Response to Childish Gambino’s ‘This is America’ Says About Fandom as Criticism
Royal bodies, the ‘incel’ mindset and those Childish Gambino hot-takes: what to read this weekend

News

Germany Plans Arts Budget Boost of $356 Million; Says ‘Culture is the Foundation of a Democratic Society’
In further news: women wearing rainbow badges beaten in Beijing’s 798; gallerists Georg Kargl and Richard Gray have...

Opinion

Women in the Arts: Sandra Patron
‘Coping as a woman in France is a daily battle: the aggression can be subtle, and you always have to push harder to...

News

A$AP Rocky and Ai Weiwei Are Here to Answer the Art World’s Most Eternal Questions
The rapper and artist have thoughts about originality in art; Melania Trump tries graphic design – all the latest...
The dilapidated Nissen hut from which Rachel Whiteread will take a cast

News

Locals Protest Rachel Whiteread’s Dalby Forest Sculpture, Comparing it to an ‘Inner City Bus Shelter’
Yorkshire residents complain that the concrete sculpture of a ‘Nissen hut’ will attract excrement, vandalism and litter

Profile

Per Kirkeby (1938–2018)
Poul Erik Tøjner pays tribute to Denmark’s most important artist since Asger Jorn

Profile

Unselfconscious is the New Black for Emerging Artists of Colour
Toyin Ojih Odutola’s portraits of a fictional aristocratic Nigerian family push toward an expanded definition...

News

Instagram Under Fire For Deleting Artist’s Account Over Half-Nude Artwork
Photographer Dragana Jurisic says her account was deactivated after she uploaded an artwork depicting a partially naked...

News

Royal Academy Marks 250th With £56m David Chipperfield-Designed Expansion
In further news: open letter protests all-male shortlist for BelgianArtPrize; Arts Council of Ireland issues...

Critic's Guide

Critic’s Guide to the Best Shows in Lisbon
From Sol Calero’s playful clichés of Latin America to an homage to British modernist architect Alison Smithson

Opinion

‘The Rhonda Lieberman Reader’ Is The Answer To Our Prayers
Everybody’s favourite underpaid, over-educated, raven-haired art critic, Rhonda Lieberman, is as relevant as ever

Opinion

What Happened to the Women Artists who Won Prizes in 1918?
‘Prize & Prejudice’ at London's UCL Art Museum is a bittersweet celebration of female talent

News

Cruising Pavilion Highlights Buildings ‘as Sexual Practice’ at Venice Architecture Biennale
The curators want to rectify the biennale’s ‘failure to question the hetero-normative production of space’; ‘poppers...

Opinion

What Installing a Demolished London Estate in Venice Says About Our Housing Crisis
A fragment of the brutalist Robin Hood Gardens will go on show at the Venice Architecture Biennale

Opinion

Women in the Arts: Julieta González
‘Women's role in shaping the history of contemporary art is being reappraised’

Profile

‘I Am Now a Saint’: Brian O’Doherty Turns 90
Three shows in Ireland celebrate the legendary polymath, artist and author of Inside the White Cube

News

Former Lovers Marina Abramović and Ulay to Pen Memoir Together
The legendary performance artists will partner up again to detail their tumultuous relationship in a new book

News

Tracey Emin, Anish Kapoor, Grayson Perry Protest Arts Exclusion in Schools
An open letter signed by over 100 leading artists including 15 Turner prize-winners says that new UK education policy...

News

Nudist Day at Parisian Art Museum Hailed as Historic Breakthrough
Naturists triumph at art gallery; soothing students with colouring books; Kanye’s architectural firm: your dose of art...

Opinion

Why the Marvel Cinematic Universe Can Show Us a Story, But Can’t Tell Us a Plot
Avengers: Infinity War confirms the domination of mass culture by the franchise: what ever happened to narrative...

Interview

‘I’d rather lose prizes and win cases’: an interview with Eyal Weizman of Turner Prize-nominated Forensic Architecture
The agency’s founder talks about warfare in the age of post truth, deconstructing images and holding states and...

Opinion

How Powerful is Saudi Arabia’s Soft Power Push?
From hobnobbing with Oprah to championing new art centres, millennial crown prince Mohammed bin Salman is following a...

Opinion

Yes the Turner Prize 2018 is Political, and We Shouldn’t be Surprised
A juror for the award last year, Dan Fox on why the Turner Prize is and always will be political (whatever that means)

Opinion

Outrage over Hiring a White Woman as African Art Curator Misunderstands Expertise
The argument that ancestral connection offers a natural grasp of the complex histories and aesthetics of African art is...

Interview

Shock of the New
One of most iconic and controversial writers of the past 40 years, Tom Wolfe discusses writing, art and intellectual...

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Joseph Kosuth at Frieze New York 2018

Frieze Art Fair Video - 06 May 2018

‘You Don't Get The Answers In the Back Of the Book’

Joseph Kosuth talks about Almine Rech (C24)’s solo presentation of his work at Frieze New York 2018

Nicelle Beauchene with her booth in the 'For Your Information' section at Frieze New York 2018

06 May 2018

Nicelle Beauchene Remembers Hudson

‘The bright yellow square - that’s Hudson’

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