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1 month ago | 
plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus |Oskar Oprey
8 min read LA and the Paranoid style seem like a perfect match, according to a new politics and conspiracy-fuelled group show in London If I ever get stuck at a dinner party with a deranged pizza-gate enthusiast, a 9/11 truther or someone concerned that the US government are funding transgender mice, I’m going to say, “Babes, don’t get me wrong, I love your paranoid style, but could you please give it a rest and pass me the salt?” The Paranoid Style in American Politics was an influential...
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2 months ago | 
artforum.com | Hans-Ulrich Obrist |Oskar Oprey |Bryan Barcena |Barry Schwabsky
Roy Ascott reflects on his careerTHE PIONEERING British media artist ROY ASCOTT, who turned ninety last fall, has been at the forefront of creative experimentation with interactivity since the late 1950s. Equally influential is his work as an educator, beginning with the radical “Groundcourse” he developed at the Ealing School of Art in 1961.
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2 months ago | 
artforum.com | Richard A. Meyer |Oskar Oprey |Bryan Barcena |Barry Schwabsky
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2 months ago | 
artforum.com | Jeremy Lybarger |Oskar Oprey |Bryan Barcena |Barry Schwabsky
TO UNDERSTAND the kind of artist Barbara DeGenevieve was, you need only look at some of the prompts she gave her students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), where for twenty years, starting in the mid-1990s, she was the photography department’s resident troublemaker:Make a piece in which you explore/inhabit/become a stereotype. Make a piece that addresses your own racism. Make a piece that is guaranteed to offend or piss people off.
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2 months ago | 
artforum.com | Oskar Oprey |Bryan Barcena |Barry Schwabsky |Anne Carson
On Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst’s “The Call”THERE WASN’T A BIBLE IN SIGHT, but the Serpentine North Gallery still felt like a place of worship thanks to The Hearth, 2024, a gigantic wall-mounted suite of GPU cooling fans that doubled as a church organ, blaring out AI-generated hymns that echoed throughout the entrance area. This musical installation, by the artists Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, formed the opening to “The Call,” the Berlin-based duo’s first UK institutional show.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
plastermagazine.com | Oskar Oprey
11 min read Oskar Oprey finds London in the grips of a morbid obsession with gothic pop culture, mythology and the entertainment industry – and he can’t get enough I’ve spent the past few days in the company of superheroes, criminals and sordid-looking plush toys. No, I didn’t get locked in the stockroom of Forbidden Planet. London is currently hosting three exhibitions that I’m unofficially billing as the ‘Dark Night Trilogy’. In Covent Garden, you’ll find ‘Batman Unmasked’, an immersive...
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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.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Tina Rivers Ryan |Rebekah Rutkoff |Oskar Oprey |DiaryThe HEAT
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Oskar Oprey
“Every father wants a pink dress and bows on their little girls,” said a young female punk rocker sitting in the audience during a mid-1980s episode of Phil Donahue’s talk show. The subject for discussion was outrageous youth fashion. Up on stage sat Serena Dank, founding member of support group Parents of Punkers, who during that decade became a spokesperson for all of the parents horrified by their children’s anarchic taste in fashion and music.
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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.
