Art
If Hollywood Actors Tell Refugees’ Stories, Will We Finally Listen?
In Candice Breitz’s video installation, six men and women recount their stories, which are then reinterpreted by Alec Baldwin and Julianne Moore.
Dorian Batycka
Art
Cultural Diplomacy and Artwashing at Documenta in Athens
It remains a question whether Learning from Athens actually manages to learn anything from Greece and its financial crisis.
News
Police Raid Major Moscow Theater, Detain Artistic Director over Alleged Embezzlement
Artists rallied outside the Gogol Center in support of Kirill Serebrennikov, an outspoken critic of Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church.
Art
Ai Weiwei Floats a New Project About the Refugee Crisis
Conceived in response to the current humanitarian disaster, Law of the Journey is rooted in the artist's research while on location at refugee camps in Greece
News
Billionaire Opens Museum in a Reconstructed Baroque Palace in Potsdam
POTSDAM — Touted as the “youngest and noblest of all German private museums,” the Museum Barberini opened to the public on January 23 in an area lined with Prussian palaces and gardens on the banks of the old Alter Markt Square, a stone’s throw from some of the city’s
Art
15 Artists, Shows, and Works Censored in 2016
Here's a look at some of this year’s acts of art censorship.
Art
Unpacking Trauma by Examining the Bullet that Caused It
The video essay is Vanessa Gravenor’s attempt to make sense of her trauma, which remains serpentine, meandrous, never subsiding, ever present.
Art
An Homage to a Syrian Cosmonaut Turned Refugee
Take a ride with Halil Altındere through his Martian fantasy.
Art
Invisible Ceramics and Women Made of Bread Fill a European Art Park
Bródno Sculpture Park has come to be one of Europe’s most enticing and important sites of relational and social sculpture.
Performance
Tino Sehgal Dances Across the Line Between Art and Life
Sehgal’s latest work will likely go down as one of the 21st century’s most interesting hybrids between contemporary art and dance.
Art
A Festival in Poland Expands Our Understanding of Noise and Sound
SOKOLOWSKO, Poland — For three years running, Sanatorium of Sound has given hundreds of experimental sound art devotees reason to ascend to a small, mysterious, Polish village, nestled only a short distance from the Czech border.
Art
The 9th Berlin Biennale: A Vast Obsolescent Pageant of Irrelevance
BERLIN — BB9 is so vacuous, ideologically apathetic, ahistorical, sarcastic, and dehumanizing, it’s a wonder it hasn’t been blacklisted solely on account of its conformity to commodity fetishism.