Art Review
The Berlin Biennale's Complicit Silence
It fails to directly address the German state’s repression of pro-Palestine expression, even as many of its works model “safer” forms of resistance.
Andrea Scrima
Art Review
What if Peacemakers Shaped the Future?
Poetics of Power, grounded in feminist critique, imagines a world free from militarized, male-dominated spheres of power and opposed to all forms of exploitation.
Art
Nadya Tolokonnikova Makes an Art of Rage
Why does radical feminist art pose such a danger to political power, and what can these artistic strategies achieve in increasingly unpredictable times?
Art
Erwin Wurm’s Slapstick Social Critique
The apparent humor in Wurm’s current retrospective in Vienna camouflages a cultural and historical pessimism that recurs in his art.
Art
The Cutting Satire of Hannah Höch’s Collages
One of the inventors of modern collage, Höch’s sociopolitical imagery skewered the politicians and culture of early and mid-20th-century Germany.
Art
Simone Fattal Stages Battles Between the Mortal and Heavenly
The Lebanese-American artist speaks to the fragmented cultural spaces of regions host to ancient civilizations, which merge with her own displacement.