The Jewel Box
Moderna Museet’s painting bonanza glitters, but leaves little room for sustained looking.
Review
Too Much Hope
The main exhibition at the 61st Venice Biennale is a spiritualist séance with no spirits present.
A Time of Transition
Many of the pavilions at the 61st Venice Biennale manage to transcend the outdated structure of national representation.
Monsters On Guard
Transgressive creatures in the Nordic Pavilion.
Will Porn Save Us?
At the Danish Pavilion in Venice, the fertility crisis is displaced by an avalanche of sleek Scandinavian smut.
Love Will Tear Us Apart
The Antwerp Six exhibition reveals fashion as a system and presents the dilemmas that all creatives face today.
Information Bloat
The inaugural exhibition of the New Museum’s expansion is undone by an inability to leave anything out.
Let’s Stay in Touch
What does it mean to be important in the art world? Marie Karlberg’s Stockholm show answers the question, one oversized business card at a time.
Still So Much Left Unsaid
The feminist exhibition No Master Territories at Kunstnernes Hus unfolds as an open research project that can be extended and reconfigured through new voices.
Arrested Dreamwork
Synnøve Persen’s landscapes imagine the Arctic beyond the tourist sublime.
Still Fighting
Klara Lidén has turned professional, keeping her body strong and her gaze fierce. Will she still get hurt if she slips off the knife-edge she’s dancing on?
Bartleby, the Cineast
At Moderna Museet Malmö, John Skoog asks if beauty can endure the crude logic of power.
