Art Encounters Biennial 2023 Review: Against DoomismOliver BascianoArtReview26 September 2023The latest edition, ‘My Rhino is Not a Myth: art science fictions’, asks us to imagine the possibilities of transhumanism and posthumanism
35th Bienal de São Paulo Review: About BodiesOliver BascianoArtReview06 September 2023‘Choreographies of the Impossible’ brings in long-excluded artists and wears a sense of visceral anger with pride
Bring Up the Bodies at the Mütter MuseumOliver Bascianoartreview.com29 August 2023The conflicted relationship between historic institutions and the collections they are meant to care for
What Does the ‘Global South’ Even Mean?Oliver BascianoArtReview23 August 2023A series of upcoming biennials promise to explore the art of the ‘Global South’. But what does that mean? And is the term of any practical use?
The Troubled Politics of MilkOliver BascianoArtReview14 July 2023An exhibition at the Wellcome Collection delves into the polemics of dairy
‘Crooked Plow’ Gives Voice to Brazil’s VoicelessOliver BascianoArtReview12 June 2023Itamar Vieira Júnior’s newly translated 2018 novel elucidates, through the lives of two sisters, the enduring dysfunction of a nation
Che Lovelace’s Intimate Portrait of Modern TrinidadOliver BascianoArtReview09 June 2023The artist paints his home country with a tender familiarity that undercuts the sexualised, colonial visions of life in the equatorial tropics that have often dominated art history