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Bienal do Mercosul 2025 Review: Breaking Down

4 days 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.
The 10 Exhibitions to See in June 2025

4 days 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.
Hito Steyerl’s ‘Medium Hot’: The Age of Slop

1 week ago | artreview.com | Terry Nguyen

Steyerl challenges us to recognise the vast scale of AI’s ubiquity and also to realise its ‘artificial stupidity’When Marshall McLuhan attempted to categorise media along a ‘hot’ and ‘cool’ spectrum in 1964, artificial intelligence was still in its infancy, of interest primarily to programmers and sci-fi enthusiasts. That AI could produce media was an unfathomable idea.
‘Nova Scotia House’ by Charlie Porter Review: Seen and Not Seen

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.
A Director Walks into a Gallery: The Rise of Auteur Art

1 week ago | artreview.com | Claudia Ross

From Yorgos Lanthimos to David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch to Harmony Korine, a growing number of filmmakers are turning their hand to exhibitions of visual art. What could go wrong? Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things (2023) has been dubbed ‘an awe-striking visual feast’, Wes Anderson named ‘one of America’s most unique cinematic voices’, and Sean Baker’s Oscar-winning Anora (2024) likened to ‘a rich Tchaikovskian symphony’.
Is Harmony Korine’s ‘Baby Invasion’ Just Plain Bad?

1 week ago | artreview.com | Olivia Kan-Sperling

The ‘bad-boy’ director’s latest film is a torrent of non-stop violence that fails to add up to an aesthetic vision greater than the sum of its parts I saw Baby Invasion (2024) on a Friday night at a good-size music venue in New York. The event was advertised as a ‘first-of-its-kind’ screening event, a ‘live remix’ in which Korine would ‘apply DJ techniques to feature film’. People came expecting a party. But once inside the venue, the seating arrangement seemed more suitable to a chamber orchestra.
Diedrick Brackens: Social Fabric

1 week ago | artreview.com | Emily McDermott

In homage to Audre Lorde, the artist’s exhibition at SCAD Museum of Art explores whether subsistence itself can be a form of resistanceTexas-born, Los Angeles-based artist Diedrick Brackens is known for largescale weavings that incorporate myth and storytelling to highlight Black and queer histories and bodies, particularly in relation to the American South.
Daido Moriyama & Sayre Gomez: Unlikely Neighbours

1 week ago | artreview.com | Toby Reynolds

At Taka Ishii Gallery in Kyobashi, Tokyo, the artists are united in their exploration of urban decay, mystery and peace If I had to guess what convinced the New York-based curator Matt Black to juxtapose the work of contemporary Los Angeles painter Sayre Gomez and esteemed Tokyo-based photographer Daido Moriyama, I would point to the small black-and-white photograph displayed at about the midpoint of one’s walk around the gallery, which mirrors a recurring motif deployed by Gomez: the...
Art Lovers Movie Club: Marwa Arsanios, ‘Who Is Afraid Of Ideology? Part 4: Reverse Shot’, 2022

2 weeks ago | artreview.com | Louise Benson

The Beirut-based artist and filmmaker’s intimate reflection on land ownership ask how imagination might be used as a tool for political change There is an Arabic term for the rural commons, Al Masha, which refers to communal land that is equally distributed among those who use it. The moment each member stops using the land, they lose their stake in it.
‘Open, Heaven’ by Seán Hewitt, Reviewed

2 weeks 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.