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Strange Pictures by Uketsu, Reviewed

6 days ago | artreview.com | Chris Fite-Wassilak

A whodunnit by the masked Japanese YouTuber seems keen to validate the keyboard brigade‘You can find anything on the internet these days,’ says one character in Strange Pictures. It’s the unintended motto of this enjoyable, clumsy whodunnit, populated by Wikipedia-educated crime experts and computer-chair psychologists.
The ‘Shitshow’ of Documenta 14 Gets the Big Screen Treatment

6 days ago | artreview.com | Digby Warde-Aldam

We watched Exergue, Dimitris Athiridis’s 14-hour documentary about the one that went wrong, so you don’t have toI recently revisited my notes on Documenta 14 and recalled a rough calculation I’d made.
What’s Fuelling the Rise of Literary Events?

1 week 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.
Rammellzee: Art’s Best Kept Secret

1 week ago | artreview.com | Brian Dillon

A new survey at Palais de Tokyo continues the search, from trash-confected sculptures and UV costumes to colourful abstractions like a subaquatic KandinskyHis real name was and remains a street-gnostic secret. We know that aged nineteen in 1979 he became Rammellzee by deed poll – or more cryptically RAMM:ΣLL:ZΣΣ, announcing at the outset an obsession with the graphic force and fantasy-building potential of the letter.
Islamic Arts Biennale 2025 Review: The Weight of the Material

1 week 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...
The 10 Exhibitions to See in May 2025

1 week ago | artreview.com | Nirmala Devi |Jenny Wu |Louise Benson

Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to this month, from the Venice Architecture Biennale to Gallery Weekends in Berlin and Beijing19th Venice Biennale of Architecture: Intelligens. Natural. Artificial.
Helmut Lang Has Always Been Provocative

1 week ago | artreview.com | Claudia Ross

Lang’s newest artwork, like his clothing, explores the uncanny ways that industrial refuse can interact with and even evoke human fleshIn 1998 Helmut Lang shifted the New York presentation of his Spring/Summer collection from November to September, hoping to pre-empt other major fashion houses’ runways. Instead, the entire fashion world followed suit, debuting their own Manhattan shows to correspond with Lang’s – a calendar shift that remains to this day.
Jim Hodges: Of Ghosts and Men

2 weeks ago | artreview.com | Tom Morton

The artist’s It only takes a minute at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London is at one creepy and strangely sacralTwo summers ago, Jim Hodges installed hissculpture Craig’s closet (2023) in St. Vincent’s Triangle, a small park in Greenwich Village. There it remained for a year, sharing space with the angular steel canopy of the New York City AIDS Memorial, which honours the more than 100,000 residents of the city who died of the disease.
7th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival Review: Maximalist Proof

2 weeks ago | artreview.com | Max Crosbie-Jones

After a 13-year hiatus, BEFF returns as a collective display of artistic might In February 1999, the avant-garde American filmmaker Bruce Baillie sent a letter encouraging a promising film graduate named Apichatpong Weerasethakul to persevere. ‘We must steer the young Asian film/video artists away from the commercial gloss, the superficial images, attitudes, aspirations,’ he wrote.
Just Eat: The Artworld’s Strange Relationship With Food

2 weeks ago | artreview.com | Chris Fite-Wassilak

Culinary experiences in the artworld are on the rise, but why does food need to be framed as ‘art’ in order to be considered something special? A bright green foam sits in the bowl; a couple of tanned potato chips are tucked tastefully to the side. Digging beneath the mostly tasteless foam (a bare hint of grassy sweetness suggests it’s made of pea) with a chip, you excavate a mound of salty ground-meat.