Mark Rappolt

1 week ago | artreview.com | Mark Rappolt

The curator and fashion critic’s debut novel explores the potential for individuals and groups to construct and maintain their own worldsCurator and fashion critic Charlie Porter’s first novel is about Johnny and Jerry. It is about seeing and being seen. It’s about British society. It’s about life lived between the potential of youth and the eradication of that potential at life’s end. It’s about what remains after that. ‘Let me sort through who I am…’ it begins.

1 month ago | artreview.com | Mark Rappolt

And All That Is In Between demonstrates that many of the aspects of global culture, or the way culture circulates globally, are not actually a new phenomenon of our ‘globalised’ times The title of the second iteration of the Islamic Arts Biennale, which aims to trace the ‘tangible and intangible influences of the Muslim world’, reiterates a recurring phrase in the Quran, generally deployed to emphasise the fact that God created everything: the heavens and the earth and… well, that’s where the...

2 months ago | artreview.com | Mark Rappolt

While not without its flaws, this is brave writing that demands to be readOver the past two decades, Indian essayist and novelist Pankaj Mishra has positioned himself as one of the key thinkers in reimagining our world through the lens of decolonisation.

2 months ago | artreview.com | Mark Rappolt

The tenor of current cultural and critical exchanges among South Asian and Gulf countries points to the contortions required of those who would correct art historyIt was all going along so nicely. Just a bunch of people from London and Gulf-based American museums telling a rapt audience in Colombo about how they were going to make South Asian art great again. Until someone in the crowd declared that the Gulf is where South Asians “go to die”. And the talking stopped.

2 months ago | artreview.com | Mark Rappolt

How Ho Tzu Nyen’s The Nameless explores the convergence between the construction of identity and the fabrication of historyA quick look at a still from Ho Tzu Nyen’s The Nameless (2015) will tell you that its subject is one of Hong Kong’s most celebrated actors, Tony Leung Chiu-wai. Indeed, Ho’s film includes extracts from the greater part of the actor’s distinguished cinematic career, from A City of Sadness (1988) to The Grandmaster (2015).