“Epidemics, wars, and other international crises have in the past proven the value of distributive communication technologies, be it through letters, radio, TV, chat-rooms, or TikTok; all are interfaces, windows into social space-making – _...Read More_

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE CONTACTLESS ART WORLD? by Nikita Yingqian Cai. "The question is whether the digital intermediary will lead our audience back to the museum after we all recover from the pandemic, or it will completely replace the _...Read More_

“There’s this postmodern aesthetic” that Balenciaga understands, Robak said, “where [you’re] looking at exactly what’s ‘now’ but also at the past, at history, and trying to do both things at the same time." “Fashion is best when you can’t _...Read More_

"Artistic investment follows the same logic as financial speculation. Still—if contemporary art were simply an extension of finance capital, works designed to look good in banks, or in bankers’ homes, why should we even care? It’s not as if _...Read More_

"More art is being produced and sold than ever before, at ever higher prices."

MADISON, N.J. — The borough council meets every other week in a room on the second floor, handling the usual affairs of a small suburb — hiring traffic engineers, leasing copy machines for the Police Department — in an unusual space that _...Read More_

statue-phobia is the worst form of fetishism.

Lots of interesting thoughts here. Hito Steyerl is calling for a cessation by artists and art workers from the art world (and by extension its money) and forming and alternative exchange network. But why still call that art? Seems like it _...Read More_

Arguably non-material art forms, like conceptual art, also needs craftsmanship to stand out.

"The top prize of the Venice Biennale, the world’s oldest and grandest international exhibition of contemporary art, was awarded on Saturday to Anne Imhof, an artist and choreographer whose grim and threatening occupation of the German _...Read More_