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Basel: Staid Yet Surprising

Last weekend I travelled to Basel for a conference. It's been years since I was in Basel, so many years, that my memories of the city are vague, but after twenty-four hours, I remembered where I was....

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"Gelitin, come out to play?"

The last time Gelitin had a show at Tim Van Laere they constructed an elevated outhouse atop a bare bones stairway and invited visitors to urinate in it. The pee flowed down through a transparent tube...

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Tomorrow's Paper

How often is it that a medium undoes itself, recasting both its intrinsic value and use? We are so often reminded that we now inhabit a post-paper world; as personal notes, letters, and least missed,...

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Notes on ‘The Encyclopedic Palace’. A Venetian tour through the Biennale

That day, the Yellow Emperor showed the poet his palace. They left behind, in long succession, the first terraces on the west which descend, like the steps of an almost measureless amphitheater, to a...

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Mountain Mementos

Sometimes artists that came of age in the 60s prefer to stick to a medium and play with the same format for decades, applying the same formula to different materials. The temptation to break down the...

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An Intricate Mess

Liminal Squared is the latest exhibition to fill the walls of White Cube’s Bermondsey gallery, fittingly soloed by explorative artist (environmentally speaking) Julie Mehretu. In her first solo show...

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Special Edition: Venice Biennale #1

Notes on ‘The Encyclopedic Palace’A Venetian tour through the Biennale with Federico FlorianThat day, the Yellow Emperor showed the poet his palace. They left behind, in long succession, the first...

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Special Edition: Art | Basel #3

THE BURNING RING OF FIREDaniel Rolnik on the gamble of getting a booth at BaselWhenever I think about art fairs, the first thing that comes to mind is money. Like how Art Basel can cost a gallery well...

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Special Edition: Art | Basel #2

SPECIAL PROJECTS AT SCOPE BASEL 2013SCOPE's new curatorial direction, by Lori ZimmerJust as the chaos of Frieze week in New York has calmed down, the party is resurrected in Basel, Switzerland. After a...

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The Standard Book of Color: Puce

Hex: #CC8899HSV: 0.9583, 0.3333, 0.8000A smashed flea filled with your blood stains puce.French for flea, this color was first uttered seeing the bloodsucker’s death streaking white sheets. In the...

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From Sixty Inches From Center: Inside Marwen Lab: The Voice and Vision of...

For the past month and a half the MarwenLab students and teaching artists have been kind enough to let me attend their meetings and workshops as Sixty prepared to have our first article created by...

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[VIDEO] Interview with Raqib Shaw at Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague

Raqib Shaw is a London-based artist who is known for his opulent paintings of imagined paradises. Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague is currently presenting a representative selection of the works of Raqib...

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Putting Paint to the Test

Using scenes from classic cinema as inspiration, Susan Bee’s new body of work puts her medium to the test: with her painterly brushstrokes and jabs competing with the pictorial film stills as the...

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Summer Sojourn: Berlin Gallery Hop

Basel has happened. Venice opening weekend has passed. The European art world is about to fall into the languid slumber of summer. If you are like me, also known as poor, and you didn’t get to attend...

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An Artist’s Responsibility

Chicago is a city of neighborhoods: this is a kind way to put it. In reality, Chicago suffers from deep segregation – limiting the potential of a majority of its citizens. Avenues such as Western are...

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After Dark

Asa nisa masa, a phrase from Fellini’s 8½, is an incantation recalled from the childhood of the film’s protagonist, Guido. In the film we see a young Guido utter the phrase repeatedly while wildly...

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