Mood over Content
After art’s artistic turn, mood is the new benchmark for quality in contemporary art, positing a philosophically sustainable alternative to spectacle and newness.
Commentary
Abuses of Genius
Allegations of sexual misconduct in a Vaginal Davis work at Moderna Museet raise questions about art’s toxic culture of privilege.
The Super Chickens Are Coming
Experimental attitudes are back in vogue in Norway this autumn, with an archive of ground-up items and DIY biotechnology as menu highlights.
Autumn Sonata
The Danish art institutions offer female pleasure and Artificial Intelligence. Meanwhile, art students in Aarhus are well prepared for an autumn of activism.
Hello Darkness
A wave of new alternative exhibition venues offer glimmers of light as Sweden enters the gloomy season.
Zombie Documenta
Recent organisational changes promise a scandal-free Documenta 16. But how credible is a world expo of the arts in Germany’s current cultural climate?
Reflections on Immediacy
Our obsession with instant emotional returns robs us of the ability to understand the culture in which we live.
When the Water Lilies Bloom
Denmark is awash with spring blockbusters – plus glimpses of experiments and resistant poetics.
Rough Joys
Can art address issues other than the environment in 2024? Not according to Norwegian institutions’ spring programmes.
The Swedish Art Spring
The National Museum is in a crisis and a call to support Gaza divides the art world but everyone joins hands for the sake of queer- and performance art.
Confessions of a Punk Critic
When the ideas about art’s autonomy and the death of the author have been consigned to the landfill, all that remains is the naked sender.
A Future Without a Horizon
In its tenth iteration, Performa in New York City seems to have forgotten to ask itself fundamental questions about the relevance of its curatorial model.
