J.J. Charlesworth

J.J. Charlesworth is an art critic and editor at ArtReview.

Documenta 15 Review: Who Really Holds Power in the Artworld?

J.J. Charlesworth17 June 2022

Ruangrupa’s rhetoric of collectivity and self-organisation muffles a wider range of motives and interests

The Return of Magic in Art

J.J. CharlesworthArtReview30 May 2022

Do we prefer the unworldly to the world we currently live in?

Indicting Digital Capitalism: Jonathan Crary’s ‘Scorched Earth’, Reviewed

J.J. CharlesworthArtReview20 May 2022

There is plenty to deride about contemporary power structures and ‘the internet complex’, but the visual theorist’s alternatives are unconvincing

Indicting Digital Capitalism: Jonathan Crary's 'Scorched Earth', Reviewed

‘Draw Your Own Conclusion’: a Provocative Remixing of a Historical Museum Collection

J.J. CharlesworthArtReview08 April 2022

‘Pas Besoin d’un Dessin’ at Geneva’s Museé d’Art et d’Histoire gives curator Jean-Hubert Martin carte blanche to select from over 500,000 works of fine art, jewellery and antique weaponry

Flora Yukhnovich’s Bacchanalia of Painterly Excess

J.J. CharlesworthArtReview01 April 2022

In her big, dazzling canvases, voluptuousness takes on a more monstrous, excessive form

Planetary Crisis? The Art Market Is Doing Just Fine

J.J. Charlesworthartreview.com01 April 2022

No matter how bad things are getting in the everyday world, the 1 percent march on – according to the latest ‘The Art Market’ report published by Art Basel and UBS

Revisiting Marcel Duchamp’s Strategies of Evasion

J.J. CharlesworthArtReview11 March 2022

A new facsimile edition of a 1959 monograph of the artist provides a timely insight into his foundational, profoundly political act of negation