The Danish government’s bill to counteract Quran burnings sacrifices art’s autonomy, ambiguity, and freedom.
Lee Lozano’s caustic cultural critique depicts the violent perversions on which American culture is founded.
Democracy melts on the surface of a light-making machine. At Charlottenborg Hito Steyerl brilliantly demonstrates why: capitalism is realising the alchemists’ vision of commanding light.
Any painterly Eros in Sergej Jensen’s paintings is necrophiliac by nature. The past served up as an outstretched hand that crumbles as you reach out to grab it.
Louisiana’s Op Art exhibition is not banal razzle-dazzle. It is a gem of retinal queerness. But the museum misses a splendid opportunity to revise the reception history of the genre.
The Anthropocene Project conference in Berlin marked the beginning of an ambitious research project aimed at creating a new cosmology in light of our new man-made geological epoch.
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.
The feminist exhibition No Master Territories at Kunstnernes Hus unfolds as an open research project that can be extended and reconfigured through new voices.
Strong reactions from European leaders to Russia’s participation in this year’s biennial. Danish minister open to boicott.
Contemporary art’s rhetoric of doom has become a comfortable cliché, as the scramble for relevance turns resistance into a risk-free, legible aesthetic.
