Features
Berlin’s Porn Film Festival Celebrates 20 Years
Pushing back against rigid boundaries between erotic film and art, the annual festival creates an inclusive, sex-positive space for exploring human desire.
Ela Bittencourt
Features
Is Art Basel Paris Too Big to Fail?
The fair showed relative market resilience but leaned into the risk-averse paintings, with most standout work in the emerging sectors.
Art Review
The São Paulo Biennial Is the Calm Before a Storm
Even as it privileges quiet reflection, the show’s 36th edition cannot fully contain the frictions and instabilities that surround and infuse it.
Art Review
The Pliable Philosophy of Brazilian Geometric Art
An exhibition emphasizes the fluidity between Brazil’s Constructivist, Concrete, and Neo-Concrete movements.
Art Review
Shu Lea Cheang’s Art of Hacking
Cheang is concerned with the ways technology enables commodification and control, from communication to nourishment to sex.
Art Review
Do We Still Dream of a Cyborg Future?
An exhibition spanning the 1960s through ’90s prods the potentialities and limits of a cyborgian body.
Art
The Riotous Variety of Brazilian Modernism
A show of 10 artists working from the 1910s to ’70s demonstrates that the movement was much more diverse than its most notable names suggest.
Art Review
An Artist’s Songs for the Armenian Diaspora
With the stringed qanun as its beating heart, Silvina Der-Meguerditchian’s show explores how music crosses boundaries and preserves collective memory.
Art
The Artist Bending Modernism Toward Mysticism
Marina Perez Simão systematizes nature’s motifs and distills them into interlocking volumes and color bands in paintings as cerebral as they are sensuous.
Art
Surrealism’s Legacy of Antifascist Activism
A show at Munich’s Lenbachhaus museum is an urgent study in the meaningful art-political networks that stressed solidarity and unity over isolation.
Art
Sheila Hicks’s Faith in the Latent Power of Materials
An invigorating survey of mostly recent works by the American artist at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf is a feast of rhythmic form and pulsating color.
Art
Lynn Hershman Leeson Predicted Our Digital Hellscape
The video art pioneer has been warning us from the start that the more advanced digital tech becomes, the more vigilant we must all be against its lurid seductions.