The Art of the Possible: With and Against documenta 14
1. Is documenta now too big to fail? In some sense this is undeniable: given the tremendous amount of financial and cultural capital at stake, it’s almost inevitable that the exhibition will manage to...
View ArticleBF TV: The Shoreline Dilemma – inaugural edition of the Toronto Biennial of...
The Shoreline Dilemma, the inaugural edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art (the Biennial), launches on Saturday, September 21, 2019, with special opening weekend programming. The Exhibition, presented...
View ArticleAichi Triennale tests the limits of freedom of expression in Japan
When shown at Gallery Furuto in Tokyo in 2015, the Freedom of Expression?, exhibition assembling works that had earlier been rejected or removed by other exhibition organizers in Japan amid...
View ArticleWhat Does a Biennial Do? The Winds of Timișoara
In the novels of Herta Müller, Timișoara is a windy place. You “hear the wind”; it “is sweeping through the trees”; “the night is chasing the wind”. It throws someone into the arms of a loved one, and...
View ArticleReflections on the 59th Venice Biennale. Part 1: Alchemical visions,...
“Can you hear me Marian?” Indeed I could, it was terrifying. -Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet Amidst the disorientation that follows our re-emergence from an extended period of isolation and...
View ArticleReflections on the 59th Venice Biennale. Part 2: Delirium in the Giardini,...
See Part 1 The title of the show Milk of Dreams is lifted from a collection of illustrated stories which Leonora Carrington told to her children, and initially drew on the walls of their home in...
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