Spring Salad
Geopolitics looms over everything in Denmark. But not on the art scene, which is serving up glam-rock, food happenings, and solo shows featuring international heavyweights.
Commentary
Millennial Takeover
The Swedish spring is marked by aesthetic confidence and structural uncertainty.
Eat Your Phone, Amen!
How do we hold onto what is materially sacred in a time that worships the cloud?
Spiritual Disarmament
Pure hypocrisy: Denmark’s Minister for Culture praises art and culture in the fight against AI while the budget for the National Collection of Photography is slashed.
Consolation Prize
Will poverty save us? A dispatch from Helsinki.
A Happy, Unspecified Fantasy
Arthur Köpcke arrived in Copenhagen in 1953. Not long after, the city became a centre of the European avant-garde. When might that happen again?
No Case for Renewal
While a dramatic shift towards authoritarianism is taking place in the United States, art clings to aesthetic strategies from the 1980s.
Career Confinement
With the birth of the dealer-critic-system in 1870s France, criticism shifted its focus from the artwork to the artist. It’s been all downhill from there.
New Old Paintings
The Norwegian art scene is awash in oil on canvas this autumn.
Burned-Out, but Aware
Somewhere between Black figuration and the late Picasso, the Swedish art season is looking for relevance.
About a Scene
A new season is ready to be gobbled up as a shift in mood seems imminent on the Danish art scene.
Time to Mobilise
The enemies of culture and the arts haven’t just rallied, they’re gaining ground.
