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The Anatomy of Spectacle

In Paris, everything sparkles in a fascinating and terrifying way.

Anti-fashion

Cindy Sherman’s five decades of collaborations with the fashion world demonstrate her fascination with the elusive nature of fashion photography.

New York Doesn’t Exist

But the images survive forever. Postcard from a residency.

5 December Esben Weile Kjær

Nostalgia, pop, and angel wings. Artist Esben Weile Kjær picks out some memorable art from 2022.

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Antipopulist Front

In Vienna, Mumok’s new director Fatima Hellberg is quietly reshaping how we move through the museum. And how the museum moves through us.

Whales Are Not Singing Anymore

In Oslo, Cecilia Vicuña presents two monumental collective works about the struggle for life in the sea.

Ghost Projector

The past haunts the present through the apparatuses that make our images in Lap See Lam’s exhibition at Henie Onstad Art Center.

The Saddest Show in Art History

A public event in Vilnius launching next year’s Baltic Triennial underscored the radical difference between being claimed by war and claiming detachment from it.

Esben Weile Kjær

All articles by Esben Weile Kjær

The Anatomy of Spectacle

Anti-fashion

New York Doesn’t Exist

5 December Esben Weile Kjær

Recently published

Antipopulist Front

Whales Are Not Singing Anymore

Ghost Projector

The Saddest Show in Art History

Antipopulist Front

Whales Are Not Singing Anymore

Ghost Projector

It Was a Different Time

The Saddest Show in Art History

A Time of Transition

Will Porn Save Us?

What Is an Image?

Too Much Hope

Monsters On Guard

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