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Television is Back

A number of seminal works within Swedish 1960s TV- and computer-based experimental film are being shown at Digital Art Center in Stockholm. The exhibition inspires confidence as well as a taste for more.

Contemporary, All Too Contemporary

This year’s Moderna Exhibition showcases art from the Baltic region, mixing work from different epochs. The result is an exhibition without a guiding idea, so contemporary that it falls out of step with the times.

Eh…urope?

With its rather random and arbitrary curatorial approach the exhibition Europe, Europe at Astrup Fearnley ends up saying very little about European art as such.

Family Sins

Henrik Olesen’s Abandon the Parents at the National Gallery in Copenhagen is a magnificent story about sons who left behind one kind of family, but perhaps created a new one.

Back to the Salon

The 2014 Whitney Biennial – the last held in the Brutalist granite box on Madison Avenue – is a somewhat old-fashioned, eclectic exhibition, but it evinces an unquestioning faith in art.

Affirmative Retrospection

In the major Richard Hamilton exhibition in London, the renowned pop artist’s subtle ironies and games are realized as the conditions and objects of his critical works.

A Lifestyle Encyclopaedia

In spite of some gentle institution-critical kicks, Elmgreen & Dragset seem perfectly at home in Astrup Fearnley’s homoerotic and readymade-fetishised universe.

Paper Monuments

This survey show of exhibition invites, flyers and other printed ephemera, which comes to Liverpool from MoMA in New York, is rich in historical interest – and nostalgia.

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