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e-flux is an international art network reaching more than 100,000 visual arts professionals
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Joined December 2008
EDITORS' LETTER: If art history is “ghost stories for grown-ups,” as Aby Warburg claims, then the most enduring works of art might be those that cannot easily be recuperated into our existing versions of reality, write the editors of e-flux Criticism. https://t.co/ZXRpX6ORec
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Malik Nejmi examines the nuanced connections between architecture and cultural memory in working-class French communities. For Océane Ragoucy, this solo show points to new ways of thinking about conservation. https://t.co/1dWk2mL4LN
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“Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet” reveals a period in which developments in computing foreshadowed the world of instant communication, ubiquitous surveillance, and intelligent machines in which we now live, writes Brian Dillon. https://t.co/kqti8jF37f
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Imagine a historical juncture when machines promised to annex much tedious labor, manual or mental; to gather and strew the vast array of human kno
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Shortlisted artists and curators for the Australian Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale call for the reinstatement of artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino. https://t.co/83ZTf8b4HR
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As the shortlisted artists and curators for the Australian Pavillion at the 2026 Venice Biennale, we are writing in support of the winning team; Khaled Sabsabi (artist) and Michael Dagostino (curat...
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e-flux Criticism editors' letter: If works of art might be understood as "telegrams," carrying information from different times and places that might help us to understand our own, then what messages have we missed? https://t.co/YTilQ0xyFl
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The art historian Thierry de Duve has characterized Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain as a “telegram” sent out in 1917 and only properly received
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Thotti reviews two Carlito Carvalhosa retrospectives in São Paulo. https://t.co/dpMoSzD723
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Thotti reviews two Carlito Carvalhosa retrospectives in São Paulo.
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Cihad Caner attempts to reconstruct a collective understanding of the 1972 anti-immigration riots in Rotterdam's Afrikaanderwijk neighborhood, writes Musoke Nalwoga, tracing the influence of these events into the present. https://t.co/lSvA3jdqtd
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In August 1972, a Turkish landlord evicted a Dutch woman living in the Afrikaanderwijk neighborhood of Rotterdam. This event became the trigger for
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Sean O’Toole profiles the multi-disciplinary artist Nolan Oswald Dennis, a self-described “un-South African South African” whose richly layered work draws its speculative reach from science fiction. https://t.co/T6b0ZHBfyM
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Over the past three years, Nolan Oswald Dennis has gained significant international recognition, showcasing their diagrammatic and collaborative pr
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Published late last year, Rachael Rakes’s profile of the great American painter Jo Baer (who passed away this month, aged 95) outlined the course of a pioneering career from the early abstract works through to the “radical figuration” of latter decades. https://t.co/391dK04Xdc
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Jo Baer nicknamed the five large-scale abstract paintings that compose “The Risen” (1960/61–2019) series her “zombie” works. Despite livin
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ikkibawiKrrr's solo exhibition at Art Sonje Center takes visitors on a trip through geologic time, writes Hallie Ayres, that redraws the evolutionary boundaries between organic life and the "inert" mineral world. https://t.co/xPp0d1x9eL
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Robert Hazen outlined the theory that the mineralogy of planets and moons evolves as a direct result of interactions with life.
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A well-intentioned attempt to redress the dehumanization of disabled people in a royal collection risks reinscribing the prejudice it attempts to dismantle, writes Kenny Fries. https://t.co/uvTt8JA9tV
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Many museum exhibitions—and re-hangings of permanent collections—have in recent years aimed to address legacies of colonialism, as well as outdated
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That art criticism operates on a slower timeframe than our hyper-accelerated news cycle is sometimes a cause of frustration, write the editors, but might also be the great advantage of the form. https://t.co/volXieTnX4
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Art criticism operates with a time lag. If you accept that art is shaped by the historical contexts in which it is made, then the critic must alway
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A retrospective group show of four Bali-based artists who lived and worked together in the 1990s reveals the strange, fascinating fruits of their collective dreaming, writes Adeline Chia.
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Collectives have played an influential role in the history of Indonesian art, from the 1930s, when the twenty-member PERSAGI, or Persatuan Ahli-Ahl
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Stephanie Bailey finds that the seventh edition of Jaou Tunis—a biennale staged across the Tunisian capital—highlights the transformative power of defiance and posits resistance as an expression of both love and creativity. https://t.co/fS2BeMb4Ex
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If there was one exhibition that tapped into the Tunisian zeitgeist during Jaou, the contemporary art biennial organized in Tunis by the Kamel Laza
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Today e-flux closes for a short holiday break until January 2. https://t.co/3aETnuM3O5
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Tomorrow e-flux will close for a short holiday break until January 2. Before we go, we would like to share one of our favorite paintings with you.
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Crystal Bennes admires Lebanese artist Mohamad Abdouni’s photography-based practice, which draws attention to the way that normative conceptions of masculinity are constructed in order to challenge persistent stereotypes. https://t.co/nZXxNaXlRB
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“I’ve always been obsessed with losing my memory because it’s something that runs in my family,”
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Amid a widespread rise in anti-immigration politics, Francis Alÿs's recent body of work -- focused around children and the Strait of Gibraltar -- simultaneously presents populist ideology and strips it away, writes Alan Gilbert. https://t.co/6v5YyUhDyf
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e-flux journal issue 150 is out now! with Mi You, Danilo Scholz, Jacob Dreyer, Max Grünberg, Dingxin Zhao, Aiwen Yin and Yiren Zhao, and Aslak Aamot Helm. https://t.co/c5dhVMuxmF
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with contributions by Mi You, Danilo Scholz, Jacob Dreyer, Max Grünberg, Dingxin Zhao, Yin Aiwen, Yiren Zhao, Aslak Aamot Helm
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This Jakarta Biennale focuses on issues of land use and ecological crisis that are unavoidable in the city, writes Innas Tsuroiya. Yet its lasting contribution might be in proposing a future for radical artistic practice outside metropolitan centers. https://t.co/WV4k6YgxCX
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Every so often in its fifty-year history, the Jakarta Biennale has catalyzed a shift (the 1974 Indonesian New Art Movement started as a protest aga
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Isabel Jacobs reports from the first London-based festival celebrating Armenian cinema. https://t.co/xr5X51AkB3
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Isabel Jacobs reports from first London-based festival celebrating Armenian cinema.
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