For the 17th issue of Manifesta Journal, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez (MJ Chief Editor) and Virginie Bobin (MJ Associate Editor) are joined by Bisi Silva as MJ#17 Guest Editor. Bisi Silva is an independent curator and the founder/director of Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (CCA, Lagos). She co-curated The Progress of Love, […]

Issue 161 of frieze looks at Big Data: how do state surveillance and quantification culture affect our behaviour and artistic production? Co-editor Jörg Heiser leads a survey in which seven artists, writers and academics reflect on this question. With contributions from Mercedes Bunz, Jordan Ellenberg, Sarah Hromack, Trevor Paglen, Laura […]

The new Parkett 93 features collaborations with Valentin Carron, Frances Stark, Adrián Villar Rojas, and Danh Vo. Valentin Carron finds inspiration in neglected public art, commonplace architectural adornments, and broken-down motorbikes. In this issue, Lionel Bovier, David Breslin, and Giovanni Carmine provide a closer look at his sculptures. For his […]

This month in Artforum: Mario Carpo on big data and digital design: “In hindsight, the curving forms of the first digital age appear more and more as a transitional style. Today’s data-driven computation is alien to that modern logic.”—Mario Carpo Manthia Diawara on the art of Kader Attia: “Attia’s practice […]

Highlights include Michael Bracewell‘s three-part homage to Richard Hamilton, an insightful interview with Richard Deacon, Nicholas Cullinan‘s introduction to Tate Modern’s upcoming Henri Matisse exhibition, Brian Dillon on Ruin Lust, Michael Bird on Lynn Chadwick, Patrick Keiller on D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson‘s influential On Growth and Form, Bice Curiger on Urs […]

–Christopher Turner in conversation with Simon Schaffer on the absolutist promise of perpetual motion –Suzanne Karr Schmidt on volvelles, the paper wheels used in early modern computation –D. Graham Burnett on hubcap “spinners” and the automotive unleashing of blur –Jeff Dolven in conversation with John V. Fleming on wheels of […]

Edited by Avis Berman, Contribution by Elizabeth Thompson Colleary, Heather Campbell Coyle, Judith F. Dolkart and Alicia G. Longwell A monumental new monograph accompanying the first major retrospective in fifty years of the work of William Glackens, an important American realist painter. This richly illustrated volume provides a comprehensive introduction […]

January in Artforum: The groundbreaking performances of Sarah Michelson: “Michelson’s works are indicative of a dancer for a new century—not an American century, but a century that belongs less to any state than to an economic order.” –David Velasco Catherine Opie brings her camera to Elizabeth Taylor‘s house: “Has Opie […]

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage is pleased to announce the release of a new pocket-size book on curating, featuring interviews with 41 curators about their influences, aspirations, and professional challenges. Illustrated with drawings by Pew Fellow Sarah McEneaney, the book offers a candid assessment of the field at […]

In the January/February issue of frieze: 8 Painters on Painting: ‘I would like my work to slow the viewer down and delay the moment of understanding.’ (Ellen Altfest). Jennifer Higgie leads a survey of contemporary figurative painting, asking eight artists what defines their practice and why they continue to paint […]