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United Artists for Europe: Artists come together to support a Europe of…
21 May @ 6.30 pm. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Berkeley Gallery: Opening cocktail & exhibition preview of artworks donated by the United Artists for Europe, with the curators. Tickets still available. 22…
Metamorphosis. Art in Europe Now at Fondation Cartier, Paris, reviewed by Ben…
In seeking out the future of European art, this survey of emerging artists from across the continent finds a generation preoccupied by the past. That all of its 21 artists were born after 1980 – and…
The LISTE Interviews: Joanna Kamm / ArtReview
LISTE first opened its doors in 1996 and since then has developed into a key art fair for new galleries. E.Gutzwiller & Cie, Banquiers has been a supporter from the beginning, and has been the main…
Hunting, mining, remembering and the importance of being the first to know
In memory of Lutz Bacher (1942–2019) Read texts by Martin Herbert, Chris Fite-Wassilak and Beatrix Ruf on the work of the pseudonymous conceptual artist – from the ArtReview archive
Susan Meiselas wins Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. / ArtReview
Susan Meiselas has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. The American photo journalist took the £30,000 award for Meditations, her 2018 solo exhibition at Jeu de Paume, Paris. A…
War Photography: Our Full Attention, by Oliver Basciano / ArtReview
Reading the texts that adorn the walls of Don McCullin’s retrospective at Tate Britain in London, one can sense the institutional nervousness. This is a show, after all, in which a white, male,…
Lutz Bacher, 1942–2019 / ArtReview
The artist who went under the pseudonym of Lutz Bacher has died. The American, who assumed the male alias at the beginning of her forty-year, was known for her neo-Conceptualist work whichvariously…
Lutz Bacher, by Martin Herbert / ArtReview
A few pages into Lutz Bacher’s 2008 artist book, SMOKE (gets in your eyes), there’s a photocopy image of a square sheet, maybe a napkin, two columns of words handwritten on it. ‘Lute Bateau’, it…
Lutz Bacher, selected by Beatrix Ruf / ArtReview
Lutz Bacher, who lives and works in Berkeley and New York, has been confusing her audience since the 1970s with equally amusing and evocative works that revolve around the mediation and…
Lutz Bacher, by Chris Fite-Wassilak / ArtReview
Somewhere between the old-school totem and the current Internet usage of ‘avatars’ we might locate the practice of people being ascribed, whether they liked it or not, literary or cartoon characters…
Lutz Bacher: The Silence of the Sea, reviewed by Martin Herbert /…
A rare project in Paris by Rem Koolhaas and his architectural firm OMA, Lafayette Anticipations is a renovated nineteenth-century industrial building for Galeries Lafayette’s art fondation, which in…
The Venice Questionnaire: Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca / ArtReview
ArtReview sent a questionnaire to artists and curators exhibiting in and curating the various national pavilions of the 2019 Venice Biennale, the responses to which will be published daily in the lead…
Lithuanian Pavilion wins Golden Lion at Venice / ArtReview
The Golden Lion for best national participation at the 58th Venice Biennale has been awarded to the Lithuanian Pavilion. Sun & Sea (Marina) – an operatic performance for which a cavernous room in a…
Artist Jelili Atiku detained in Lagos / ArtReview
Jelili Atiku, the Nigerian performance artist, has been detained in Lagos. Posting on Instagram yesterday the artist stated ''Protecting the Sacred Omagbo means a lot to me and all my people. I am…
The Venice Questionnaire: Miracle Workers Collective / ArtReview
ArtReview sent a questionnaire to artists and curators exhibiting in and curating the various national pavilions of the 2019 Venice Biennale, the responses to which will be published daily in the lead…
Turner Prize shortlist 2019 / ArtReview
The Turner Prize has announced it’s shortlist for the 2019 edition of the award. The nominees are Jordanian Lawrence Abu Hamdan, London-based Helen Cammock and Tai Shani and Colombian Oscar…
Nicolas Deshayes, reviewed by Louise Darblay / ArtReview
The revelation of hidden structures – of a city, of a body – is something of a red herring in the work of Nicolas Deshayes. His previous show at Modern Art saw him pump hot water through a network of…
Carey Young, reviewed by J.J. Charlesworth / ArtReview
Carey Young has a talent for appropriating the forms and mannerisms of corporate and institutional culture, turning them back on themselves with absurdist acuity – this is an artist who, in 2001,…
Tracey Emin, reviewed by Fi Churchman / ArtReview
Lynn Barber was right when she made this observation of Tracey Emin: ‘If a wound shows any signs of healing, she’ll pick the scab until it starts bleeding again.’ I am reluctant to write this review,…
Five to see in Brusssels / ArtReview
This weekend's 37th Art Brussels art fair this year happens to coincide with Berlin Gallery Weekend, both ahead of the opening of the Venice Biennale. Art Brussels gathers together over 150…
Five to see in Berlin / ArtReview
I can remember ... standing by the wall... outside a gallery at the very first edition of Berlin Gallery Weekend. Celebrating its fifteenth edition this year, the pioneering event is bigger and better…
Olu Oguibe's monument to refugees re-installed in Kassel / ArtReview
The shortlist for the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2019, which awards £100,000 to a UK museum, has been announced. The largest prize of its kind in the world, it aims to reward 'exceptional…