Art Review Vol.77 No.5
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In the Summer issue of ArtReview, Geeta Dayal explores the alternate modes of listening proposed by Raven Chacon’s sound, video and architecture installations; Ben Street writes about a line from Vija Celmins’s unpublished notebooks that encapsulates the ways in which her art challenges both vision and its limitations; Oliver Basciano... Read More
In the Summer issue of ArtReview, Geeta Dayal explores the alternate modes of listening proposed by Raven Chacon’s sound, video and architecture installations; Ben Street writes about a line from Vija Celmins’s unpublished notebooks that encapsulates the ways in which her art challenges both vision and its limitations; Oliver Basciano visits Kyiv to cover Nikita Kadan’s exhibition at the otherwise empty National Art Museum, an opportunity, the artist says, “to see how much art history is influenced by the history of wars”. Daniel Browning writes about the strange power of Emily Kam Kngwarray’s work a quarter century after the Aboriginal artist’s death, and Zoë Hopkins presents Nolan Oswald Dennis’s case for an African understanding of the cosmos. Also in the Summer issue: why bad times are making for good art (again), along with other exhibition and book reviews, and what art people mean when they talk about ‘modernity’.
Art Observed
Yes/No - by Bex Wade
Art in Common by Kuba Szrede
Art Featured
Raven Chacon by Geeta Dayal
Bachtiar Siagian by Max Crosbie-Jones
Vija Celmins by Ben Street
Nikita Kadan by Oliver Basciano
Emily Kam Kngwarray by Daniel Browning
Nolan Oswald Dennis by Zoë Hopkins
Art Reviewed
Exhibitions
Gallery Weekend Berlin, by Martin Herbert
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, by Alexander Leissle
Caio Carpinelli and Bruce Nauman, by Mateus Nunes
On Education, by Mira Dayal
Martin Beck, by Louis Bury
Salman Toor, by Jenny Wu
Rachel Rossin, by Alexander Harding
Eva Helene Pade, Alice Godwin
Marie Farrington, Declan Long
Tatiana Trouvé, by Giovanna Manzotti
Ian Hamilton Finlay, by Tom Denman
Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie, by Jenny Wu
Jacqueline Mesmaeker, by Christian Egger
Umber Majeed, by Lauren Stroh
14ª Bienal do Mercosul, Oliver Basciano
Femmes, by Clara Young
Phuong Ngo, by Mikala Tai
Rallou Panagiotou, by Stephanie Bailey
Unsettled Earth, by Alexander Leissle
Why Look at Animals?, by J. J. Charlesworth
Books
Bangkok after Dark: Maurice Rocco, Transnational Nightlife,
and the Making of Cold War Intimacies, by Benjamin Tausig, reviewed by Christopher Whitfield
Strange Houses, by Uketsu, reviewed by Chris Fite-Wassilak
No Ordinary Deaths: A People’s History of Mortality, by Molly Conisbee, reviewed by Yuwen Jiang
The Devil’s Grin: Book One, by Alex Graham, reviewed by Nirmala Devi
Dirty Old River, by Tom Emerson, reviewed by David Terrien
Reyner Banham: A Set of Actual Tracks, edited by Ludovico Centis, reviewed by Mark Rappolt
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