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Art in the age of Black Power

‘Soul of a Nation’ at the Brooklyn Museum is an outstanding exposé of the art that emerged in tandem with the promotion of black collective interests in the 1960s and 70s.

Messy Ecologies

On Circulation at Bergen Kunsthall reveals symbiotic relations between living and dead matter. It is an art that critically opens up to the future.

A Taste for Heaven

Art historian T. J. Clark’s new book sketches a vision for a new political Left through the affective registers and subtleties of painting.

Forward, Starfish!

Elmgreen & Dragset’s minimalist starfish installation in Paris resonates directly with the city’s self-image after the terrorist attack in 2015.  

Hermetically Open

Pierre Huyghe’s exhibition at Serpentine in London poses the question: what is the critical value of the open artwork in the age of participatory media apocalypse?

Animate Me

Jumana Manna has a journalist’s feel for the effects of intimacy. Sweat pours from her sculptures and films at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter.

Perverse materialism

With her New Museum retrospective, Sarah Lucas (almost) breaks free from the YBA generation, excelling with British toilet humor that speaks directly to the senses.

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