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Hugo Ball Prize Halted as It Reckons With Dadaist’s Antisemitism

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie January 13, 2023January 13, 2023

At the request of 2023 grantee Hito Steyerl, this year’s award will be replaced with a panel about antisemitism and racism.

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Documenta Controversy Continues as Hito Steyerl Withdraws Work

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia July 11, 2022July 11, 2022

The artist cited the organizers’ handling of antisemitism allegations and the ensuing fallout. Meron Mendel, head of the Anne Frank Educational Institute in Frankfurt, stepped down from his position as a consultant for the exhibition.

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Hito Steyerl Brings Us Late Night Public Access Weirdness

Avatar photo by Rea McNamara November 24, 2020November 1, 2021

4 Nights at the Museum, a “weird-ass visual podcast,” is a good example of responsive curating amid the pandemic.

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Harun Farocki and Hito Steyerl, a Perfect Pairing (in Theory)

Avatar photo by Ayoola Solarin March 25, 2020March 24, 2020

Where Farocki’s works are meditative, Steyerl’s are bold and loud — which would make for an interesting juxtaposition if the selected works didn’t feel so at odds with each other.

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Artist Hito Steyerl Rebukes German Institutions, Acting in Solidarity With Kurdish People

by Hakim Bishara October 30, 2019October 30, 2019

During a performance piece in Berlin, Steyerl demanded state-run art institutions stop showing her work as part of the country’s “external cultural diplomacy” until the country changes its policy toward the Turkish invasion of Kurdish areas in northeast Syria.

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Hito Steyerl’s Indictment of the Park Avenue Armory’s Ties to Gun Violence Misses Its Mark

Avatar photo by Zachary Small July 1, 2019July 3, 2019

An oracle of our end times, Steyerl is a crucial voice in a chorus of culture critics seeking to understand contemporary culture, but does her new installation on gun violence misfire?

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Rising Tides and Climate Change Color the Venice Biennale This Year

Avatar photo by Anna Souter June 24, 2019June 24, 2019

Artistic allusions to rising waters can be found across the Venice Biennale this year, and they strike home with a particular power given the ongoing destruction of the natural world.

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A Multimedia Jungle of Moving Images

by Michael Blum January 31, 2017February 1, 2017

The Whitney Museum’s Dreamlands gathers a century of immersive moving image art, cutting across time and technology.

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Parsing a Would-Be Canon of Recent Artists’ Writings

by Rob Colvin November 28, 2016November 28, 2016

The new book Social Medium: Artists Writing, 2000–2015 over-relies on art institutions to vet a very uneven selection of writings by 75 artists.

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An Early Thanksgiving: The Wagner Gift to the Whitney

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli November 21, 2015December 1, 2015

Opening in the shadow of the Paris attacks, the exhibition Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner represents — as Adam Weinberg, the director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, said in his remarks at the press preview — “a celebration of what matters in life.”

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Debt in Venice: German Pavilion Artists Show Support for Greece

by Claire Voon July 16, 2015July 19, 2015

In response to the German government’s insistence on imposing austerity measures on Greece, the artists representing Germany at this year’s Venice Biennale have made a simple but powerful statement in support of the debt-ridden nation.

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Weather Report: Hito Steyerl’s Documentary Forecast for the Digital Age

by Michael Blum May 19, 2015

For the last several years now, as the credits roll at the end of her films, artist Hito Steyerl’s name, rather than appearing alongside the typical “Written and Directed by,” is listed with roles (or non-roles) considerably more blurred and expressionistic.

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