Matthew Barney’s rebirth ritual at the Astrup Fearnley Museum makes fertile detours from the cult of his own person.
In spite of some gentle institution-critical kicks, Elmgreen & Dragset seem perfectly at home in Astrup Fearnley’s homoerotic and readymade-fetishised universe.
In the 2010s, Norwegian cultural politics began the deliberate disassembly of a functioning system under the pretence of having something to replace it with.
In his day, Erling Viksjø, architect of the Oslo Government District, was called a “bulldozer” and an “enemy of culture.” Today, his own legacy is facing demolition.
Set against an iconic cinematic backdrop depicting the streets of New York, the Frieze Los Angeles art fair has every opportunity to juggle with the artificial, the commercial, the superficial – and Hollywood.
During the 2010s it has become apparent that the fascination of the archive can not be separated from the ideology of the digital data base.
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