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A Series Showcases Mathematics-Based Sound Visualizations
LONDON — It is almost impossible not to notice the recent flourishing of sound installations in the British art world.
Francesco Dama
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Minimalist Monuments to the Personal and Domestic
LONDON — In 2013, Prem Sahib transformed Southard Reid gallery into a club.
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Rediscovering Bill Viola's Forgotten, Resonant Sound Compositions
LONDON — To better understand these early, rarely exhibited sound works, visitors have to go back in time.
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Conjuring Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Final 24 Hours
LONDON — American director Abel Ferrara’s newest film documents the final 24 hours of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s life in an intelligent way, without rhetoric or prudery.
Performance
Summoning the Spirit of Frida Kahlo Through a Pre-Columbian Ritual
LONDON — As the centerpiece of this year’s Greenwich + Docklands International Festival (GDF) in London, artistic director Bradley Hemmings has created an outdoor theater production called "The Four Fridas," inspired by the life and work of legendary Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.
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Personal Takes on the Realities of Colonialism
LONDON — How do you tell a story that does not want to be told?
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US History, Queer Life, and Witchcraft: How AA Bronson, Somehow, Comes Together
LONDON — Hexenmeister, AA Bronson’s first solo show at Maureen Paley, calls to mind his recent House of Shame at the Gwangju Biennial, featuring Bronson’s particular combination of queer themes and shamanic practices.
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Queering the Tom of Finland Foundation
LONDON — When artist Patrick Staff visited for the Tom of Finland Foundation in Los Angeles for the first time, in the summer of 2012, he was expecting to find the usual, sober atmosphere of an archive.
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In London, Mounting 50 Shows in 50 Weeks (Again)
LONDON — In 2000 Mark Francis and Jay Jopling curated an experimental exhibition project with a simple formula: one exhibition per week for 50 weeks.
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Marlene Dumas Paints Ambiguity into a Black-and-White World
LONDON — Walking through The Image as Burden, Marlene Dumas’s retrospective at Tate Modern, is like venturing into a forest of images.
Interview
The Art of Being Contemporary in Rome
ROME — The best way to get to Monitor gallery is to avoid the crowded road that runs by it and venture instead into the maze of alleyways of the city center. Passing by the myriad of columns, Renaissance plazas, and Baroque churches, you'll arrive at the immaculate space with almost a sense of relie
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The Fragments and Facsimiles of Nina Beier
LONDON — When you enter the first room of Nina Beier’s solo exhibition at David Roberts Art Foundation (DRAF), you encounter "Scheme" (2014), an enigmatic stack of green crates with vegetables scattered on the floor.