The question of contemporary art, Peter Osborne claims in his new book, is not what art is today, but what we should call art in a qualified sense right now, and which arguments we can muster for this.
Ulf Linde’s half a century of work on Marcel Duchamp was presented at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. Geometry is at the center and Duchamp turns out to be an artist obsessed with the missing eighth.
“They have approved a building without considering what it is actually supposed to contain,” says Nivi Christensen on the forthcoming museum in Nuuk.
Fewer artists and a deeper focus make the 16th Gwangju Biennale a rare, organic experience.
Bonniers Konsthall develops Peter Weiss’s novel The Aesthetics of Resistance into an exhibition, but its core theme – class struggle – is conspicuously absent.
Kirsten Ortwed has spent a lifetime pushing sculpture to the edge. On the Danish isle of Bornholm, her art fits in almost suspiciously well.
