Artist Gelare Khoshgozaran Maps the Psychic Effects of the Forever WarChris Fite-WassilakFeatures02 March 2021The Los Angeles-based Iranian filmmaker opens up a brave new world of contemporary storytelling
Why We Tolerate the Artworld’s BullshitMartin HerbertOpinion23 February 2021If a great exhibition is the end that justifies all the mess, then a year of barely seeing one grates on the nerves
‘The Artist is Irrelevant’: Painter Tala Madani on Transgression, Nostalgia and StyleRoss SimoniniFeatures24 February 2021‘I’m mostly interested in art that excavates from the psyche – not the frontal lobe, not the intellectual, not the speakable, but the unspeakable’
Art Lovers Movie Club: Gelare Khoshgozaran, ‘Medina Wasl: Connecting Town’ArtReviewArt Lovers Movie Club02 March 2021Welcome to Art Lovers Movie Club, where you’ll find a selection of artists’ videos available exclusively online at artreview.com.
Kader Attia will curate the next Berlin BiennaleArtReviewNews04 March 2021The French-Algerian artist has been appointed curator of the exhibition’s 12th edition in 2022
Berggruen Institute plans to acquire Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice as first European baseArtReviewNews04 March 2021The 1913 neo-Gothic building will host a programme exploring ‘long-term answers to the biggest challenges of the 21st century’
Elizabeth Ann Macgregor to step down as director of Museum of Contemporary Art AustraliaArtReviewNews03 March 2021After 20 years at the helm, Macgregor will leave her position in October
More woes for Desert X: Judy Chicago artwork cancelled over bighorn sheep fearsArtReviewNews01 March 2021The latest headache follows a backlash over the festival’s Saudi Arabia links
The Reverse Marxism of Adam Curtis’s ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’Tom WhymanOpinion10 February 2021Why it would be better if the filmmaker aspired to be less of a historian, and more of a philosopher
Beaten Pots, Three Finger Salutes and Car Horns: The Art of Protest in MyanmarSai Htin Linn Htet and Aye Ko and Moe SattFeatures17 February 2021Three artists from Yangon describe acts of creative dissent on the streets, as hundreds of thousands defy the military coup
Subject, Object, Verb: Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Library of SoundsArtReviewAudio18 February 2021ArtReview’s podcast explores the connections between artists, art and life
How Linda Nochlin Changed Art History ForeverFi ChurchmanOpinion03 February 2021Fifty years on from ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists’, assessing the legacy and limits of the feminist art historian’s pioneering essay
Art Supermarket: Exhibitions to See in ParisLouise DarblayReviews19 February 2021While museums in the French capital remain closed, commercial art galleries offer some much-needed respite
Lee Kit and Kingsley Ng Warp Time and Space in Hong KongAaina BhargavaPartnership with Oi! Art Space02 March 2021‘Today is the Past of Tomorrow’ at Oi! Art Space explores home and displacement in a city in constant expansion
Rome’s Quadriennale: An Act of Love for a Mutant WorldMariacarla MolèReviews16 February 2021Can the institution – with the 2020 edition, ‘FUORI’ – repair its past?
‘Why Are They Here?’ – Bangkok Art Biennale, ‘Escape Routes’, ReviewMax Crosbie-JonesReviews17 February 2021The exhibition is at its best when artworks appear to disrupt the event’s sweeping therapeutic narrative
But Is It Art?Taylor Le MellePartnership with Brent 202002 March 2021How the borders between art and life beyond don’t seem to matter any more
The Art of the COVID-19 PhotoshootOliver BascianoOpinion12 February 2021One problem throughout the pandemic has been its own invisibility – enter the vaccination portrait: ‘cure as political metaphor’
New Life: Books to Help You Escape Lockdown BoredomOliver BascianoBook Reviewartreview.com06 January 2021Everyday stories in the face of world-changing events kept this correspondent sane
‘I Was Raised by Witches’: Johanna Hedva on Mysticism, The Gothic and Staying NegativeRoss SimoniniFeaturesArtReview18 December 2020With one new book out and an album forthcoming, the artist, musician, writer and Wiccan talks to Ross Simonini
The Cultural Revolution of Paris’s BanlieuesLouise DarblayOpinionArtReview24 November 2020How the Kourtrajmé School is effecting deep change within France’s elitist art school system
Sex, Drugs and High Finance: What HBO’s ‘Industry’ Tells Us About MeritocracyMomtaza MehriOpinionartreview.com18 November 2020Alienation is the soundtrack to Mickey Down and Konrad Kay’s cutthroat drama about the inner lives of investment bankers
The Self-Awareness That Haunts Artist Dana Schutz’s New PaintingsTom DenmanReviewsArtReview16 November 2020The 2017 Whitney Biennial controversy is a presence felt behind the exhibition Shadow of a Cloud Moving Slowly at London’s Thomas Dane Gallery
Why Is Maggi Hambling’s Mary Wollstonecraft Statue So Weird?Imogen West-KnightsOpinionartreview.com13 November 2020A monument to one of the eighteenth century’s most prominent feminist thinkers has finally been unveiled – and it’s not gone down well
What Malian Farming Collective Somankidi Coura Tells Us About the Value of ArtRaphaël Grisey and Bouba TouréFeaturesArtReview11 November 2020The cooperative’s history provides a model for ideas of collective working that suffuse much of the discourse surrounding artmaking today
What’s Behind Northeast Thailand’s Grassroots Art Revolution?Max Crosbie-JonesFeaturesArtReview Asia03 November 2020The art scene in Thailand’s northeast is building momentum thanks to grassroots activism and an emphasis on collectivism
Artemisia Gentileschi Is More Than a Revenge FantasyMegan NolanReviewsartreview.com20 October 2020The exhibition of the Italian Baroque artist at London’s National Gallery shows us a woman who confidently asserted her place in history
Is This the End of Contemporary Art As We Know It?Liam Gillick and J.J. CharlesworthFeaturesArtReview29 September 2020Has COVID-19 accelerated the demise of the artworld? What lies ahead? Artist Liam Gillick and ArtReview’s J.J. Charlesworth assess the sudden halt in shows, fairs and biennials
