#334 SPRING 2021

Cover story artist Helen Marten, who shares with many of the featured artists – as Anne Imhof and Hito Steyerl among others – a no-fear approach with an almost anti-consumerist sensibility, finding a balance between aesthetics and ethics, and following through on urgent commitments within communities.

Also in this issue: Babak Radboy in conversation with Andrea Bellini, discusses Telfar’s definition of freedom and the complexities behind sending a message through a brand. Taja Cheek in conversation with Detroit based electronic music producer and DJ Carl Craig on his latest project commissioned by Dia Beacon; JaBrea Patterson-West on Black abstraction, futurity, and opacity in the work of Julie Mehretu; Charlie Robin Jones on Grace Wales Bonner and the history of emotions; William J. Simmons and Lauren Mayberry on Promising Young Women; the final installment of Pierre Bal-Blanc’s column “The Curatorial Gaze”; Mohamed Almusibli, Jill Gasparina, and Stéphanie Moisdon in conversation with Eleonora Milani on the upcoming project “Lemaniana,” a survey of current artistic production in the Léman region; Kaspar Muller's correspondance from Zurich for this episode of "Letter from the City"; two selected readings from the nineties from Flash Art Archive, by Benjamin Weil and Éric Troncy. 

Reviews: Alejandro Cardenas, ALEXANDRIA, Almine Rech, New York / Hamishi Farah, Antagoni, Château Shatto, Los Angeles / Emma McIntyre, Pour Plenty On the Worlds, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles / Xinyi Cheng, The Horse with Eye Blinders, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin / Lydia Ourahmane, Barzakh, Kunsthalle Basel / Richard Artschwager Gagosian, Rome / Pedro Cabrita Reis and Cerith Wyn-Evans, The Mudam Collection and The Pinault Collection in Dialogue, Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean / Senzeni Mthwakazi Marasela, Waiting for Gebane, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town

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