Nicholas Norton (f.1989) er kunsthistoriker og skribent.
Nicewashing
Curators’ efforts to blur formal hierarchies tend to veil the power they themselves wield.
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.
Why do debates on art get mired in arguments about identity politics? This year’s Holberg Debate offers some clues.
NFTs demonstrate art’s license to make commodities out of almost anything.
Ida Ekblad’s paintings do not comment on visual culture, they produce it.
Damla Kilickiran’s exhibition at The Young Artists’ Society in Oslo shows how the pandemic has made us so focused our own bodies that our surroundings dissolve.
Swedish-born Valeria Montti Colque will represent Chile at the 60th Venice Biennial, an event of great symbolic significance for the Chilean diaspora.
If truth is the first casualty of war, art is one of the next. This year’s Kyiv Biennial is a struggle of resistance.
Edith Hammar takes us to the queer Helsinki of the 1950s.
Curators’ efforts to blur formal hierarchies tend to veil the power they themselves wield.