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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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The Art of Defeat

Bonniers Konsthall develops Peter Weiss’s novel The Aesthetics of Resistance into an exhibition, but its core theme – class struggle – is conspicuously absent.

In the Breakers

Kirsten Ortwed has spent a lifetime pushing sculpture to the edge. On the Danish isle of Bornholm, her art fits in almost suspiciously well.

Dora Budor’s Small Moments of Tenderness

Bonner Kunstverein show plays with split vision.

The Word for Summer Is Surface

Three exhibitions – by turns glossy, quiet, and flashy – fit Copenhagen’s event-packed month like a glove.

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All articles by Esben Weile Kjær

The Anatomy of Spectacle

Anti-fashion

New York Doesn’t Exist

5 December Esben Weile Kjær

Recently published

The Art of Defeat

In the Breakers

Dora Budor’s Small Moments of Tenderness

The Word for Summer Is Surface

Dora Budor’s Small Moments of Tenderness

The Art of Defeat

Mythologies

Autumn Reflections

The Word for Summer Is Surface

The Misanthrope Who Came in from the Cold

La Grande Bouffe

In the Breakers

Whales Are Not Singing Anymore

Antipopulist Front

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