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The opening of the 2020 Bucharest Biennial may be delayed, but the next edition’s curator has no concerns. That’s because he or she or it is a robot. That’s right: the chief curator of the 2022 Bucharest Biennial is Jarvis, an artificial intelligence program in development from the Vienna-based studio Spinnwerk. Named after the superhero Iron Man’s AI […] More
The art-world calendar has just seen its most significant reshuffle yet as a result of the lockdown era. The Venice Biennale is pushing the 59th international art exhibition to 2022 in order to accommodate the delayed 17th international architecture exhibition, “How Will We Live Together?,” originally scheduled to open this month. That means the next Venice […] More
Lee Mingwei was lucky. At the urging of the Gropius Bau’s curators, the New York-based artist caught one of the last flights out of Berlin before travel restrictions were put in place this March. It was not without compromise: As his plane took off, Lee was leaving behind a major retrospective just as he would otherwise […] More
Craving snacks during the long months of self-isolation? A never-ending pile of fortune cookies from the late Cuban American artist Félix González-Torres might be coming soon to a location near you. Most of the world’s art galleries are closed, but David Zwirner and Andrea Rosen are forging ahead with an ambitious and outside-the-box exhibition of González-Torres’s 1990 work […] More
As more of the world enters into isolation to protect public health, windows, balconies and building façades have taken on a new role in public life. Seven international museums including Madrid’s Reina Sofia and the M HKA in Antwerp have tapped into the potential of these externally-facing spaces for artistic expression, commissioning 16 locked-down artists […] More
While much of the art world uploads its content online, a curatorial initiative in locked down Berlin has asked artists and cultural producers to put up art on their balconies instead, prompting viewers to put down their phones and go outside for a walk. Some 50 Berlin creatives showed their works on balconies and windows […] More
Some readers of this article will call it a fish tale, and I guess I would too. The fish in question is a black sea bass——and this is the tale of how that New World creature came to show up in , an ancient Greek myth painted in the early 1560s, in Venice, by Titian. […] More
Clad in a turtleneck and chic blazer, architect Rand Elliott—a dead ringer for the magician Penn Jillette, at least from certain angles—leaned back onto a couple of the 16,800 aluminum “fins” that comprise Oklahoma Contemporary’s facade. It was a gloomy day, but he explained that his design of the new museum reflects the city’s rapidly […] More
