Judging by the title”Jelliz and Gestures” (Zellij and Gesture), it’s easy to assume that the focal point of Sonia Kacem’s latest exhibition is zellij, the tradition of glazed ceramic tiles …
Architect
The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York is selling its former Upper East Side home, designed in 1966 by Marcel Breuer, to Sotheby’s for around $100 million. The …
There is a certain intangibility in the aesthetic practice of Daniel Maier-Reimer, which takes the form of travels. From Lapland to New Zealand, the artist has created nearly fifty of …
Andy Campbell on “Make Me Feel Mighty Real: Drag/Tech and the Queer Avatar”
The endless courage of trans and queer people to be seen and heard in this screwed up and increasingly fascist chapter of our shared history is nothing short of miraculous. …
When Germaine Kruip came across the work of Laura Grisi in early 2022, she was struck by the affinities between their respective artistic practices. They were born a generation apart …
How to take pleasure in beauty, knowing the cruelty that surrounds us? In this exhibition, Melvin Edwards posed this question seriously, seeking an answer in the fundamental American contradiction between …
The high-ceilinged halls of the 1930s functionalist Bergen Kunsthall building have recently housed another rather different vision of functional architecture, that conjured up by American artist Oscar Tuazon. After dissecting …
her solo exhibition ‘Whiteface’, white South African artist Candice Breitz has brought together numerous examples of so-called ‘white fragility’, a range of emotional defense mechanisms that deny the reality of …
“An aristocrat by heritage, an anarchist by conviction, a seductress by nature and a wanderer by vocation”, Kati Horna – as the artist Juan Luis Díaz praises – was born …
The past decade has seen a concerted effort to modernize a national art history narrative for the United Arab Emirates. It started, as these things tend to do, with men …