Andrew Uroskie

Dec 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Andrew Uroskie

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Sep 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Simon Njami |Travis Jeppesen |Charlotte Kent |Andrew Uroskie

DEBATES AROUND CONTEMPORARY ART have been heated by recent events—specifically, in Kassel, to name just one example.1 What is art today? What is admitted and what is forbidden? Is a new morality challenging the freedom once associated with art? And how does (or should) art reflect the social and political phenomena that we must contend with? When one arrives in Venice, it is with all these questions and more in mind.

Sep 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Manuel Borja-Villel |Travis Jeppesen |Charlotte Kent |Andrew Uroskie

WITH A SUGGESTIVE TITLE, “Stranieri Ovunque” (Foreigners Everywhere), and 331 artists, the vast majority from the so-called Global South, the curator of the Sixtieth Venice Biennale, Adriano Pedrosa, has tried to pay a historical debt and provide visibility for artists who have been systematically undervalued or consigned to oblivion. The work done is exhaustive.

Sep 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Travis Jeppesen |Charlotte Kent |Andrew Uroskie |Jordan Nassar

IN ART CRITICISM covering exhibitions of decorative arts or crafts, the display of marginalized media such as textiles is often cast as a newsworthy novelty and even a subversive intervention in the world of fine art. As a trio of recent exhibitions demonstrate, however, textiles have been an important, elite, even “fine” art since at least the fourth century BCE.

Aug 19, 2024 | artforum.com | Travis Jeppesen |Charlotte Kent |Andrew Uroskie |Jordan Nassar

Wilfredo Prieto’s Illuminated Stone and Unilluminated Stone, 2012–14IF YOU’RE LUCKY ENOUGH to be in Venice on a sunny day, it will take your eyes a while to adjust after you enter the Teatro Fondamenta Nuove on the northern bank of Cannaregio. A curtain is lifted, and suddenly you are enshrouded in darkness. It is nearly all-engulfing: Just across from the entrance, there is a single spotlight forming a circle on the floor, toward which your eyes naturally gravitate.