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1 week ago | 
artreview.com | Chris Fite-Wassilak
A whodunnit by the masked Japanese YouTuber seems keen to validate the keyboard brigade‘You can find anything on the internet these days,’ says one character in Strange Pictures. It’s the unintended motto of this enjoyable, clumsy whodunnit, populated by Wikipedia-educated crime experts and computer-chair psychologists.
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3 weeks ago | 
artreview.com | Chris Fite-Wassilak
Culinary experiences in the artworld are on the rise, but why does food need to be framed as ‘art’ in order to be considered something special? A bright green foam sits in the bowl; a couple of tanned potato chips are tucked tastefully to the side. Digging beneath the mostly tasteless foam (a bare hint of grassy sweetness suggests it’s made of pea) with a chip, you excavate a mound of salty ground-meat.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
artreview.com | Chris Fite-Wassilak |Oliver Basciano
Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to this month, from Adrian Piper and the late Ryuichi Sakamoto to the 14th Bamako Encounters biennial Ryuichi Sakamoto: seeing sound, hearing time Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 21 December 2024 – 30 March 2025 A year and a half after musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto’s passing comes seeing sound, hearing time, an exhibition of his largescale installations, initiated later in his life, and the first show in Japan dedicated...
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
artreview.com | Chris Fite-Wassilak
Wayne McGregor’s adaptation of a Margaret Atwood science fiction trilogy proves that mangled-remake culture knows no limitsThis is where the world ends: a rave in London’s Royal Opera House, all flashing lights, bopping angular bodies and thumping electronic music.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
artreview.com | Chris Fite-Wassilak
New work by Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst explores how artificial intelligence can remain part of a fundamentally humanist projectAfter returning from a disastrous expedition to Antarctica, the explorer Ernest Shackleton recalled feeling an additional presence as he trekked across the glaciers. He wrote in his 1919 memoir of an imagined extra member of his struggling expedition: ‘Providence guided us’.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
artreview.com | Chris Fite-Wassilak
“The work often starts from an obsession with something; after that, we’ll make our way through associations that may shed light on a more emotional experience of it”‘VIPER SNAKE, RED PAINT, HEAT WAVE.’ These words appear as subtitles towards the end of Daughter of Dog (2024), an enigmatic short video by Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen, shown as part of their exhibition of the same name at Mostyn, Wales, earlier this year.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
artreview.com | Chris Fite-Wassilak |Yuwen Jiang
Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to this month, from the 15th Gwangju Biennale to Manifesta’s arrival in Barcelona PST ART: Art & Science Collide Various venues, Los Angeles, 15 September 2024–16 February 2025 The vastly-well-endowed Getty Trust (or just plain ‘Getty’, to you), is an artworld philanthropic heavyweight, which means that when it wants to drop $20m on ‘the largest art event in the United States’, partnering with and supporting over 70 cultural institutions...
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
artreview.com | Chris Fite-Wassilak
In the author’s collection of introductions to other people’s books, reviews, interviews and commissioned essays for art catalogues, the action feels absent, somewhere elseIs writing in the writing itself, or in the sharing, and discussion, of that writing? Different versions of this question arise while reading this collection of 30 texts, written (whatever that means) between 2006 and 2023.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
artreview.com | Chris Fite-Wassilak
The latest edition, Wild Grass: Our Lives, asks us to take a long – and earnest – view of land, time and organic matter A squiggly sentence spelled out in masking tape runs along the walls and edges of the stairs, in between the ramshackle tents and temporary wooden shacks set up in the foyer of the Yokohama Museum of Art: ‘The surface of the land where I stand now was created from inorganic grains of sand and dead micro-organisms mixed and accumulated tens of thousands of years before they...
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
artreview.com | Asako Yuzuki |Chris Fite-Wassilak
Written in 2017, but newly published in English, Yuzuki’s novel is both whodunnit thriller and friendship novel with a culinary themeTo get behind the defences of any foodie in your life, there’s a simple trick: ask them how to make a certain dish. Food lovers, claims one character in Butter, ‘are so delighted when someone asks them for a recipe that they’ll tell you all kinds of things you haven’t asked for along with it’.
