Oliver Basciano

Oliver Basciano is a writer and editor at large at ArtReview

Luz Lizarazo’s Origin of the World

Oliver BascianoArtReview06 February 2023

‘Cicatrices’ at Museo La Tertulia, Cali, takes the visitor through the Colombian artist’s interests in nature, mythology and the female body

Abdias Nascimento: Spiritual Liberation and Social Freedom

Oliver BascianoArtReview14 September 2022

The artist’s life, work and exile is foundational to the history of Black-made contemporary art and the continuing struggle for racial equality in Brazil

‘Invasive Species’: An Artist Cultivates a Garden of Racist Plants

Oliver BascianoArtReview23 August 2022

Giselle Beiguelman’s Botannica Tirannica at Museu Judaico de São Paulo explores scientific research as an expression of imperial power

Karen Lamassonne and Aurora Pellizzi’s Feminist Rejoinder

Oliver Basciano17 June 2022

Reaching across generations, Desire Appears Suddenly at Instituto de Visión, Bogotá deals in body politics – and body parts

Wanda Pimentel in the Headlights

Oliver BascianoArtReview06 June 2022

‘Os Anos Noventa’ at Sao Paulo's Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel pursues concepts of dominance, domesticity and underlying violence in the enigmatic artist’s work

How Can Artists of Brazil’s Favelas Resist Commodification?

Oliver Bascianoartreview.com06 June 2022

A police car parked up at an art fair in São Paolo created a collision: a symbol of state violence brought into the monied artworld

The Haunting Return of Vasily Vereshchagin’s ‘The Apotheosis of War’

Oliver Bascianoartreview.com31 March 2022

A carpenter in the Siberian city of Tomsk was arrested after he held up a print of the 1871 painting at an anti-war protest