Reflections on Immediacy
Our obsession with instant emotional returns robs us of the ability to understand the culture in which we live.
Commentary
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.
New York Doesn’t Exist
But the images survive forever. Postcard from a residency.
Listen Up, Documenta!
No curator. Not even a finding commission. What’s happening with Documenta? Is it time for a reboot – or is the end nigh?
Nicewashing
Curators’ efforts to blur formal hierarchies tend to veil the power they themselves wield.
Gilles Deleuze’s Unpublished Theory of Painting
France celebrates as the philosopher’s fabled lectures are finally committed to print.
Stockholm Syndrome
Critics must break the chains of administrative power.
On Genocide and the Duty to Speak Up
When Western leaders fail to condemn Israel’s bombing of civilian Palestinians in Gaza, it becomes the people’s responsibility – and the responsibility of artists and cultural workers – to protest.
