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Letter from Naples
Mark Sladen encounters a chilling new film in a city where edgy art has long been welcome
Trouble In Outer Heaven: Portable Ops Plus
Martin Herbert stalks through a chilling alternative sci-fi realm that is nevertheless eerily familiar
Tino Sehgal at Blenheim Palace
Adam Heardman witnesses an encounter between relational aesthetics and rarefied pomp
Leah Capaldi: Big Slit
Cherry Smyth finds herself alive in the livefeed
Mental Health and Art
Tim Steer on art projects that reveal the sociopolitical roots of mental-health issues
High Streets for All?
Matthew Noel-Tod on the instrumentalisation of artists by property developers in a time of crisis
Rosa-Johan Uddoh
Chloe Carroll shows that the artist’s background in architecture enables her to interrogate the identarian influence of cultural spaces
Art and Activism in the Age of Systemic Crisis: Aesthetic Resilience
Francis Frascina discovers the limits of this collection of essays focused on art that nurtures change
Dan Hicks: The Brutish Museums
George Vasey on the argument that museums must care for people more than objects
Lottery Lives
Current art-funding schemes, despite their meritocratic veneer, remain incurably unjust. It is time, says Michaële Cutaya, for a radical shake-up.
Park McArthur: Kunsthalle_guests Gaeste.Netz.5456
Mitchell Anderson on embodiment in the US artist’s audio tour of the gallery space
Anti-Anti-Semitism or the ‘Alt-Right’?
Following the controversial special issue of leftist art magazine Texte zur Kunst, Sarah E James asks what happens when anti-anti-Semitism meets the ‘alt-right’
Matt Wolf: Spaceship Earth
Lin Er-Ying on the lessons to be learned from this cautionary tale of Biosphere 2, the spectacular but doomed 1980s ecological experiment
Online Round-up
Lauren Velvick on the variety of approaches, from browser plug-ins to web interruptions, that artists and organisations are using to present art online
Shanzhai Lyric
Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe on the way the New York duo’s work charts the flows of capital that shape our world
Michael Hanna
Maeve Connolly examines the artist‘s interest in time travel, everyday language, patterns and technological utopianism
How to Make Art in a Pandemic?
Khairani Barokka considers ableism in art in the light of the Covid-19 lockdown
Steve McQueen
Adam Hines-Green finds that the Oscar-winning artist is liberated by the limitations of video
Reflections on Education from the Frontlines
Royal College of Art lecturers challenge the business-first approach of British universities and their art departments
Sophie Cundale
Kathryn Lloyd examines the London-based artist’s new work, which takes on Greek mythology, cinema and the world of boxing to address long-term concerns about loss and trauma.
Alex Margo Arden and Caspar Heinemann: The farmyard …
Larne Abse Gogarty finds this exhibition and two-act play to be an antidote to today’s cruel and crass political landscape.
The Found Archive of Hani Jawherieh
Amna Malik explores Void Project’s thoughtful feminisation of contested representations of masculinity through the work of the late Palestinian filmmaker.
Imran Perretta
George Vasey discusses the coercive role of images and hidden racial, social and economic biases of photographic and other technologies, as revealed in the work of the London-based artist.
Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Adrian Jackson: Here For Life
Hettie Judah reviews a collaborative film that follows the lives of Londoners as their city changes around them
Carolyn Lazard
Giulia Smith discusses the Philadelphia-based artist’s political agenda, which centres on changing the institutional treatment of disability rather than merely representing it
Richard Grayson: Possessions_inc.
Jamie Sutcliffe navigates the vortex of superstition and techno-consipiracy in Richard Grayson’s online video series
Letter from Zurich
Aoife Rosenmeyer is peeved by the art market’s framing of older female artists as Cinderellas waiting gratefully to be discovered
Call & Response
Morgan Quaintance takes issue with the political claims made in Stephanie Bailey’s article ‘Athens: Future Past’ and Stephanie Bailey responds
Harry Meadley: But what if we tried?
Tom Emery finds out what happens when a public gallery attempts to exhibit every artwork in its collection at once
Letter from Houston
Astrid Korporaal finds a pioneering spirit full of hope for positive change in a city with a surprisingly rich art heritage
Meiro Koizumi: Battlelands
Amy Luo reviews the Japanese artist’s collaboration with US military veterans
Bow Gamelan Ensemble: Great Noises that Fill the Air
Morgan Quaintance enjoys the artist sound collective as an enthralling reminder of the experimental alternative to cultural conservatism
Letter from Kampala
George Vasey reports on the Ugandan capital’s energetic but under-resourced art scene
Letter from Korea: One Step at a Time
Chris McCormack reports on the Gwangju and Busan biennales at a tentatively hopeful time in Korean politics
Private Museums
Aoife Rosenmeyer on the current boom in private art institutions
Oberhausen: Leaving the Cinema
Adam Pugh uses the 64th Oberhausen International Short Film Festival to show that cinema is essential today, it being one of the few remaining social structures to enable public assembly
Martha Rosler and Hito Steyerl: War Games
Stephanie Schwartz reviews the two-artist show at Switzerland’s Kunstmuseum Basel
Art Investigation
Daniel Neofetou argues that Forensic Architecture’s success in the art world is symptomatic of a broader demotion of art’s capacity for political opposition
Forensic Architecture: Counter Investigations
Maria Walsh reviews the group’s ICA exhibition
School: A Recent History of Self-Organised Art Education
Lauren Houlton reviews Sam Thorne’s survey of independent art schools
Andreas Gursky
Martin Herbert reviews the German photographer’s Hayward Gallery retrospective
Letter from Cairo: The Way Back
Maxa Zoller on Egypt’s post-revolution art scene
Terre Thaemlitz
The Minnesota-born, Kawasaki-based artist, writer, DJ and composer explores gender and systolic systems, and argues against reconciliation
What is Happening?
Laure Genillard asks why won’t more galleries voice the fact that art fairs are rapidly eroding their viability
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