Oliver Basciano

Oliver Basciano is a writer and editor at large at ArtReview

What Does the ‘Global South’ Even Mean?

Oliver BascianoArtReview23 August 2023

A 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 Milk

Oliver BascianoArtReview14 July 2023

An exhibition at the Wellcome Collection delves into the polemics of dairy

Photograph of the weekly ration for two people in the UK, distributed by the Ministry of Information, 1943, 44 x 51 cm. Collection Imperial War Museum, London. Courtesy Wellcome Collection, London

‘Crooked Plow’ Gives Voice to Brazil’s Voiceless

Oliver BascianoArtReview12 June 2023

Itamar 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 Trinidad

Oliver BascianoArtReview09 June 2023

The 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

From Europe’s bloodlands to the rainforests of Brazil, the late artist Frans Krajcberg witnessed destruction on industrial scales and turned it into eloquent sculpture. In January the violence came for his own work

Chus Martínez: “Joy and Friendship Are Very Important”

Oliver BascianoArtReview09 March 2023

Spanish curator and art historian Chus Martínez talks about what’s in a name

Zé Tepedino’s Grand, Effortless Existentialism

Oliver BascianoArtReview07 March 2023

A new show at Casa Triângulo, São Paulo searches for the sublime and sacred in the smallest of details