Can an Art Collection Be Truly Reflective of the World?Mark RappoltArtReview28 September 2023‘Before Tomorrow’ at Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo attempts a new acknowledgement of multiple art histories and diverse canons
Sancintya Mohini Simpson: Branches We Hold OntoMark RappoltArtReview Asia17 August 2023How indentured labourers and their descendants might navigate the long and winding road back ‘home’
Age of Vice: ‘More Netflix Pitch than Devastating Social Study’Mark RappoltArtReview21 July 2023Deepti Kapoor’s novel picks at the inequalities of Indian society but ultimately strays towards the conventions of TV dramas
Doug Aitken’s ‘Howl’ Captures the Seductive Horror of Oil ExtractionMark RappoltArtReview17 July 2023The destructive human impacts of black gold are laid bare by the artist in a ‘disconcertingly elegant’ new film and exhibition
Bani Abidi’s Kinetic Sounds of DisplacementMark RappoltArtReview Asia13 July 2023A soundtrack of makeshift domestic instruments mixed with folksongs from back home present a haunting portrait of forced migration in ‘The Song’
Rirkrit Tiravanija’s Artifice of the RealMark RappoltArtReview Asia04 July 2023Film and theatre sets expand beyond the stage in an exhibition that uses repetition to blur the line between performance and participation
Dodging Clichés Amidst Modern Myths of the GulfMark RappoltArtReview Asia30 June 2023‘Evaporating Suns’ attempts to refresh an outdated Western perspective of Arab mythology that situates it solely in the past