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Or Else It’s Not Utopian
Sun Yuan on seeing and believingSun Yuan and Peng Yu. If I Died. 2013. Installation. Courtesy of the Artist. Sun Yuan and his co-conspirator Peng Yu share a taste for camo vests, snowboard pants and …
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It Might Surprise Us Yet
Michael Jacobs on Collecting Video ArtOne of the first collectors to pay close attention to Chinese video art, Michael Jacobs presented parts of his collection last year in the Whitebox Art Center: the result …
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All About Foxes
Talk with David Horvitz on GoogleDavid Horvitz’s date of birth is always recorded differently in the wall texts of his shows. Whether through books, mail, email, the internet, clock, telegram, Twitter, or Wikipedia, his work …
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Inviting Borders
Transfer Station – The Missing Shadow at Gemeinde KölnBorders are real but not always tangible. They arise from the idea of the other and blur when these divisions overlap. Within our political geography, …
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How Cities Failed Us
A Review of Go Without TransferToday, we experience an ease of motion unknown to any prior civilization, and yet motion has become the most anxiety-laden of daily activities. Richard Sennett, …
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Politics beyond Identity Politics
2024 Whitney BiennialThe 81st Whitney Biennial closed on August 11th. This year, curators Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli spent eleven months conducting investigations and research, visiting over …
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One of the challenges in bringing forth decolonial ideas to a contemporary art audience is the fact that, for many, colonial history often appears as …
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One can hardly fail to notice that, from Benjamin’s chef d’oeuvre in 1935, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, derives the …
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What is the Shape of the Could?
A Review of A Prehistory of the Cloud“The Cloud is silent, in the background, and almost unnoticeable…until something goes wrong.” (pp.IX) A Prehistory of the Cloud departs from a few seemingly simple questions: …
