DiaryThe HEAT

Oct 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Tianyu Yang |Rebekah Rutkoff |Oskar Oprey |DiaryThe HEAT

On I. M. Pei at M+, Hong KongTHIS PAST SUMMER, Hong Kong’s M+ museum opened “I. M. Pei: Life Is Architecture,” the first full-scale retrospective devoted to the work of the Guangzhou-born, Pritzker Prize–winning Chinese American architect.

Oct 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Tina Rivers Ryan |Rebekah Rutkoff |Oskar Oprey |DiaryThe HEAT

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Oct 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Harmon Siegel |Rebekah Rutkoff |Oskar Oprey |DiaryThe HEAT

On Emily in ParisEMILY STANDS in a line of supplicants. Her marketing team is wooing a potential client, fashion designer Pierre, each of her colleagues more obsequious than the last. As she begins to sputter inanities, she draws his ornithoid scowl. His eyes dart about until they fall upon her bag charm, a gilded Eiffel Tower. “RINGARDE,” he shouts in dismay. Translation: “He called you a basic bitch.”Now Emily storms Pierre’s private box at the Palais Garnier and begins to soliloquize.

Sep 19, 2024 | artforum.com | Oskar Oprey |DiaryThe HEAT |Bryan Barcena |Ekow Eshun

Michel Houellebecq vents againI think I’m going to learn French, if only to keep up with Michel Houellebecq. The aging bad boy of letters has been embroiled in a fresh crop of scandals these past few years, the plotlines worthy of an X-rated soap opera on Canal+. First there’s his legal battle with Dutch art collective KIRAC—they collaborated on a pornographic film project together, in which audiences would have seen Houellebecq having sex with women other than his wife.