• Interviews

Of Failures and Withdrawals: An Interview with Basim Magdy

Basim Magdy is not afraid of color. A DayGlo palette enlivens his otherwise saturnine paintings, surreal compositions that lament bygone visions of the future. Jewel-like color effects—achieved thro…

• By
  Murtaza Vali
• Nov 21, 2014 1:54 pm

• Features

Revamped Montreal Biennial Looks to the Future, in More Ways than One

While futurism and its limits have proven an increasingly popular exhibition theme since documenta 13, it is a particularly apt subject for a biennial that is looking to the future as it reimagines…

• By
  Murtaza Vali
• Nov 7, 2014 3:54 pm