Bail Out Artists, Not Arts ManagersJ.J. Charlesworthartreview.com28 July 2020Bailing out arts venues doesn’t really amount to much if those venues can never really reopen
Life and Death: the Best Video Art to Watch OnlineJ.J. Charlesworthartreview.com10 July 2020Neïl Beloufa’s prophetic satire about a hallucination-inducing pandemic (and the elites in charge); Heather Phillipson memorialises our cultural exhaustion; and Rehana Zaman on feminism and solidarity
What Might the Artworld’s ‘New Normal’ Look Like?J.J. Charlesworthartreview.com30 June 2020The same, but a bit worse? The confluence of new culture wars and institutional precarity is creating a new class of ‘activist patron’
‘For Real’: London Galleries ReopenJ.J. Charlesworth17 June 2020James Turrell’s euphoric voids, Paul Klee’s messages to the future and Charles Ray’s aluminium tractor – commercial galleries are back in business
Bad Dreams: the Best Video Art to Stream This WeekJ.J. Charlesworthartreview.com05 June 2020What to watch online: films from Wanuri Kahiu, Helen Cammock, Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler
‘Postracialism Was a Reactionary Fantasy’: Touré F. Reed’s Case Against Race ReductionismJ.J. CharlesworthArtReview03 June 2020Toward Freedom explains how our understanding of racial disparities became abstracted from the political-economic forces that generate them
Exit Through the Monitor: the Best Video Art to Watch OnlineJ.J. Charlesworthartreview.com29 May 2020From Willie Doherty’s gangster confessional to Evan Ifekoya’s twilit memories of nightclubs, what to stream this week