Art’s presence in the field of new media has never been more pronounced. Access to media images and Internet-based research are among the most significant factors affecting contemporary art production. The art market has changed as well, gaining influence in the field of contemporary art; even art institutions are taking […]
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Whither Architecture?—This is one of the central questions underlying the new issue of Texte zur Kunst. We situate architecture in the forcefields of art and aesthetics; the economy of the market and configurations of power; between social processes of displacement and collective political projects; between the materially articulated volumes of […]
Taking the work of Sanja Iveković as a point of departure to discuss urgent matters in feminism today, Sanja Iveković: Unknown Heroine – A Reader gathers commissioned essays by key feminist voices who contributed to a conference titled ’23%’*, which was held on the occasion of the exhibition Sanja Iveković: […]
Download the December issue of Artforum, available now on the iTunes newsstand. And get the iPhone application for artguide—the art world’s most comprehensive directory of exhibitions, events, and art fairs in more than 500 cities—here. This month in Artforum: · BEST OF 2013: Each December, Artforum invites prominent critics, artists, […]
For The Exhibitionist’s second edition of “La Critique,” in which contributors are asked to reflect on the preceding three issues of the journal, the editors decided to create the issue entirely through conversations in order to elicit dynamic and frank responses between a diverse group of curators who may not […]
Word Association: Gerhard Rühm, Theo Altenberg, Ann Cotten & Kerstin Cmelka revisit the experiments in poetry and art of the ‘Wiener Gruppe,’ a collective founded in postwar Vienna in reaction to the suppressed aesthetic movements of the time. Vienna Interiorism: Dominikus Müller and Helen Chang explore the unique role that […]
In 2008, the Contemporary art center La Ferme du Buisson, and the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen invited Mathieu Copeland to curate A Choreographed Exhibition. Exclusively composed of “movements” written by eight artists—Jonah Bokaer, Philipp Egli, Karl Holmqvist, Jennifer Lacey, Roman Ondák, Michael Parsons, and Fia Backström & Michael Portnoy—and executed […]
Afterall present issue 34, Autumn/Winter 2013, which looks at the inscription of ideology, power and desire in cultural production through the work of Lene Berg, Mary Ellen Carroll, Lili Dujourie, Lucy McKenzie and Haegue Yang. Accompanying essays discuss questions of artistic and curatorial agency in Mike Kelley’s exhibition The Uncanny […]
The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, and Sternberg Press announce the publication of Scandalous: A Reader on Art and Ethics (ed. Nina Möntmann). A book launch will take place at Iaspis in Stockholm, with presentations by Nina Möntmann and Måns Wrange and a film screening by Renzo Martens. Recent encounters […]
In the November–December issue of frieze: Then & Now: “How does the period look today? Scanning the list of names being given the retrospective wax and polish, the answer should be: ‘It depends on whose 1990s you’re talking about.” Editor Dan Fox reconsiders British art and the 1990s. Poet in […]