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Notes on a Possible Future: Looking back at an airborne sculpture by Tomás Saraceno that took off in January as part of
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Richard Serra’s death, at the age of 85, not only brings to closure his ‘life-time involvement’ in sculpture but also signals the end of a stellar generation of North American artists
When are you too old to make it as an artist? Rose Wylie, identified as a ‘rising star’ by W Magazine (
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The indefatigable British painter is now represented by David Zwi…
Japan's Aichi Triennale closes exhibition after ‘comfort women’ complaints – curators call it ‘the most significant censorship case in the post-war Japan era’
Does the Yokohama Triennale 2020 merely function as part of ‘a larger national programme of deceit and normalisation’? And can we understand this exhibition as anything but ‘a tone-deaf spectacle’?
Henri Matisse: ‘Is Not Love the Origin of All Creation?’ – from the ArtReview archives: the artist writing in 1954 on looking at life with the eyes of a child
ArtReview’s Power 100 – the annual ranking of the contemporary artworld’s most influential players – is out now! This year’s list reflects how NFTs have upended the art market, bringing contemporary art and millennial meme culture crashing together:
Rather than writing off historic art as irrelevant or outdated, we can confront it in ways that bring the past into the present and ask essential questions about how we continue to construct the narrative of art history.
Artist runs off with £62k from museum – claiming the artwork ‘is that I have taken their money. It’s not theft. It is a breach of contract, and breach of contract is part of the work.’
Henri Matisse: ‘Is Not Love the Origin of All Creation?’ – from the ArtReview archives: the artist writing in 1954 on looking at life with the eyes of a child
‘The effort needed to see things without distortion takes something very like courage; and this courage is essential to the artist.’ Matisse writing in 1954 on looking at life with the eyes of a child:
Henri Matisse: ‘Is Not Love the Origin of All Creation?’ – from the ArtReview archives: the artist writing in 1954 on looking at life with the eyes of a child
Notes on a Possible Future: Looking back at an airborne sculpture by Tomás Saraceno that took off in January as part of
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's the global public-art project CONNECT,BTS
Audiences that can’t tell good from bad, artists who can’t either, gallerists who can’t get off the hamster wheel, and a general sense of burnout is a recipe for ‘abundant feelgood staleness’
The rejection of Defne Ayas as curator of the 2024 biennial in favour of Iwona Blazwick reveals the increasing limitations of artistic freedom in Turkey