Critical Eye: Kassel: Dislocated Loot
Looted art is everywhere in the Kassel portion of Documenta 14, posited as something like the uncanny double of today’s globe-trotting artworks.
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Art Stars: A Map of the Curatorial Firmament
Today art festivals—biennials, triennials, and so forth—are so pervasive, it feels as if a major one is happening each week. But even in the late 1990s, when biennial fever had yet to peak, there…
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Wall Labels, Part 2: Because Isn’t This What Everyone Thinks When They See a 15th-Century Painting of a Saint?
Sorry, we're still not done with wall labels.
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The Great Wall Label Shortage of 2017! Critic Chaos! Artists Take Matters into Their Own Hands
All we are is just another trick on the wall.
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At Kassel’s Stadtmuseum, a View to a Kill
Guatemalan performance artist Regina José Galindo places herself in the crosshairs.
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At Documenta, Artists Confront Europe’s Anti-Immigrant Bigotry
New works by Olu Oguibe and Rosalind Nashashibi find points of focus in a world outside.
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Documenta’s Warm and Cuddly Side (With a Pillow for Your Thoughts)
On Annemarie Burckhardt's remake of a Documenta IX catalogue as a cushy headrest.
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Wang Bing Wins 2017 EYE Art & Film Prize
Amsterdam’s EYE Filmmuseum announced today that Beijing–based filmmaker Wang Bing has won its 2017 EYE Art & Film Prize, which recognizes artists who blur…
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Adam Szymczyk on the 2016 Kochi-Muziris Biennale
As part of the Annual Guide to Galleries, Museums and Artists (A.i.A.'s August issue), we preview the 2016-17 season of museum exhibitions worldwide. In addition to offering their own top picks, our…
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