Oliver Basciano

3 weeks ago | artreview.com | Oliver Basciano

The 14th edition, Estalo, postponed following the 2024 flooding of Porto Alegre, considers ideas of the world in overloadFor a while now there has been a glitchy band appearing on my laptop screen. It comes and gloats over my impending misfortune before disappearing just as mysteriously. It is, I know, the harbinger of my computer’s death. One might take the odd, increasingly frequent glitches in the weather as signalling something similar. In 2024 Porto Alegre, in the south of Brazil, flooded.

3 weeks ago | artreview.com | Nirmala Devi |J.J. Charlesworth |Oliver Basciano

Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to this month, from Wolfgang Tillmans and Momentum 13 to Marina Tabassum’s Serpentine PavilionMarina Tabassum: A Capsule in TimeSerpentine Pavilion, London, 6 June–26 OctoberNormally, like a fly that a small child has stripped of its wings, when architecture becomes part of the content of a museum or gallery it does so to die.

1 month ago | artreview.com | Oliver Basciano

The poet’s debut novel presents an elegy to teenage first love and, in end effect, a lost youthIf Seán Hewitt is ever tempted to try his hand at ghost stories, he should go right ahead. He has a knack for summoning a distinctly creepy atmosphere: ‘At the farmhouse, one upper window lit, but otherwise the place was completely dark,’ reads a typical sentence. ‘I heard a movement upstairs, and then saw Luke’s shadow on the landing,’ it continues.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Oliver Basciano

Dara Birnbaum’s reinvention of video art was born of frustration. In 1977 the American artist was reading Screen magazine, then full of academic essays deconstructing the language of cinema. While she was keen on applying psychoanalysis to understand moving image, and felt a strong kinship with the burgeoning feminist discourse, Birnbaum, who has died aged 78, became exasperated by the lack of interest in the predominant mass medium of the age.

1 month ago | artreview.com | Oliver Basciano

They’re a hotbed of networking and flirting, but in an age of increasing digital fatigue, they also offer a space for experimentation and unmediated human connectionThe last Soho Reading Series event I attended happened not in Soho but at a church in Notting Hill, in west London.