A Ballet’s Grasp for Relevance - ArtReview
Nov 26, 2024 · Wayne McGregor’s adaptation of a Margaret Atwood science fiction trilogy proves that mangled-remake culture knows no limits This is where the world ends: a rave in London’s Royal Opera House, all flashing lights, bopping angular bodies and thumping electronic music. Towards the end of the second ...
Frank Auerbach: Like Nothing On Earth - ArtReview
Nov 14, 2024 · From 2015: How a folding of time into gesture and process combine in paintings that wrestle with the disjunction between reality and representation Painting stops time more radically than photography because it conveys relatively little …
Maryam Tafaktory wins 2024 Jarman Award - ArtReview
Nov 25, 2024 · ظربازی Nazarbazi (stills), 2022, DCP 2K, colour, 19 min. Courtesy the artist. The Film London Jarman Award 2024 has been given to Maryam Tafaktory, who will receive £10,000. Larry Achiampong, Maeve Brennan, Melanie Manchot, Rosalind Nashashibi and Sin Wai Kin were also nominated for the 17th edition of the Award.
Remaking Mike Kelley - ArtReview
Oct 1, 2024 · A critic questions framing the American as an artist for all times. Mike Kelley’s career can be divided, in retrospect, into three sections: the part most people didn’t understand or even know about (the late 1970s through to the mid-80s), the part where the work tightened up and yet got misread (beginning during the late 80s) and the American artist’s reaction to these earlier periods ...
Nan Goldin condemns war on Gaza at Berlin opening among …
Nov 25, 2024 · Among a crowd of pro-Palestine protestors, Nan Goldin condemned Israel’s war in Gaza at the opening of her retrospective at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin on Friday evening. The American photographer, who is Jewish, also criticised what she described as German censorship of pro-Palestinian ...
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‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’ Loves Politics and Butchers Jazz. Philip Clark Opinion 19 December 2024. The temptation to selectively build a narrative from the various fragments of footage and sound ultimately patronises the era’s Jazz titans
Butter by Asako Yuzuki Review: Chew the Fat - ArtReview
Mar 25, 2024 · To get behind the defences of any foodie in your life, there’s a simple trick: ask them how to make a certain dish. Food lovers, claims one character in Butter, ‘are so delighted when someone asks them for a recipe that they’ll tell you all kinds of things you haven’t asked for along with it’.This tactic drives the plot of the novel, when a …
Marina Abramović attacker smashes Ai Weiwei sculpture
Sep 23, 2024 · The aftermath of the scene. Courtesy Ai Weiwei. He sees himself as a provocative performance artist; the art establishment regards him as a dangerous nuisance – and now Vaclav Pisvejc has destroyed another work of art.
Frank Auerbach, German-British Postwar Painter, 1931–2024
Nov 13, 2024 · Natasha Tontey: Of Monkeys and Men. Adeline Chia Reviews artreview.com 23 December 2024. Tontey’s practice has gained traction in recent years for her madcap explorations of Indigeneity, ecofeminism and posthumanism.
How Rebecca Horn (1944-2024) Broke the Feminine Body Apart
Sep 11, 2024 · The late artist evoked both freedom and confinement in her surreal prostheses and bodily machines. Sometime during the late 1960s or early 1970s, the German artist Rebecca Horn received a bag of white feathers from a friend.