Nicholas Norton (f.1989) er kunsthistoriker og skribent.
No Case for Renewal
While a dramatic shift towards authoritarianism is taking place in the United States, art clings to aesthetic strategies from the 1980s.
While a dramatic shift towards authoritarianism is taking place in the United States, art clings to aesthetic strategies from the 1980s.
Our obsession with instant emotional returns robs us of the ability to understand the culture in which we live.
Ayman Alazraq shows how Israel’s continued destruction of Palestinian archives is intended to deprive the Palestinians of their identity and history.
Critic and writer Nicholas Norton proclaims his three favourite exhibitions of the year.
Curators’ efforts to blur formal hierarchies tend to veil the power they themselves wield.
If Norwegian art critics have a marginal role in the public eye, they have only to blame their collective aversion to risk.
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s voracious use of cultural fragments contradicts the idea that identity is linked to a monolithic cultural heritage.
Ahmed Umar combines a strong personal story with a critical look at European stereotypes of African culture.
This year’s Transmediale festival finds a break from digital doom and gloom in club culture’s collective moments of bliss.
Gardar Eide Einarsson questions the impact of contemporary art’s political gestures.
The Berlin Biennale overlooks the fact that art doesn’t need to be didactic.
The protagonist of Sandra Mujinga’s retro-futuristic installation at the Munch Museum tries to become invisible in a world where every action leaves an imprint.
Contemporary art’s rhetoric of doom has become a comfortable cliché, as the scramble for relevance turns resistance into a risk-free, legible aesthetic.
Synnøve Persen’s landscapes imagine the Arctic beyond the tourist sublime.
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?
At Moderna Museet Malmö, John Skoog asks if beauty can endure the crude logic of power.