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Cosima von Bonin’s Works Are Dumb. That’s the Point | ArtReview

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 23h

Toilet stalls, plushie toys, whales in Hermès, tri-scooters – it’s all just a bit of fun in the gallery. But who gets to be in on the joke?
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Toilet stalls, plushie toys, whales in Hermès, tri-scooters – it’s all just a bit of fun in the artist’s exhibition on view now at Raven Row in London

A Jean Rhys Scrapbook | ArtReview

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Curated by Hilton Als, this exhibition casts a wide net for the author’s Jean Rhys’s Creole world
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Curated by Hilton Als, this exhibition on view now at Michael Werner Gallery casts a wide net for the author’s Creole world

The Displacement of Grant Mooney | ArtReview

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The artist’s ‘sphere music’ at Chisenhale Gallery argues for a more spectral understanding of our existence. What are we actually listening for?
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The artist’s ‘sphere music’ on show now at Chisenhale Gallery

The Interview: Tanoa Sasraku | ArtReview

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“I made a point of saying I don’t want to talk about my identity, and the artworld seemed to listen. I think we have a choice.”
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Tanoa Sasraku speaks about her 2025 show, ‘Morale Patch’, on view now at London’s ICA

News | Frieze to launch Abu Dhabi edition in November 2026

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 1d

Frieze will be launching its inaugural Abu Dhabi edition in November next year, in partnership with the city’s Department of Culture and Tourism artreview.com/frieze-annou...

Frieze Abu Dhabi takes over from the city's home art fair Abu Dhabi Art. It will take place at Manarat Al Saadiyat in the Saadiyat Cultural District in November 2026

Duran Lantink for Jean Paul Gaultier 2025: In Fashion, Is Vulgarity Ever Worth It?

ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 1d

The outraged response to Duran Lantink’s Jean Paul Gaultier debut says more about tastemakers than the clothes themselves
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Fashion writer Juno Kelly on the outraged response to Duran Lantink’s hairy naked bodysuits for Jean Paul Gaultier SS26

Cecilia Vicuña Receives the Roswitha Haftmann Prize 2025

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 1d

Chilean-born artist, activist and poet Cecilia Vicuña has been awarded the Roswitha Haftmann Prize artreview.com/2025-roswith...

The Chilean-born artist will take home the prize at the award ceremony in Zurich on 21 November.

The Interview: Saidiya Hartman | ArtReview

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 2d

American academic Saidiya Hartman has radically reoriented how we understand slavery’s afterlives
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The academic, theorist and artist speaks about her new production Minor Music at the End of the World, currently touring

Review: Ren Light Pan at Lyles & King, New York | ArtReview

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From our networks: Minor Attractions returns to London 14–18 October 2025

For its third edition at The Mandrake, the fair is back bigger and more diverse than ever — doubling in size with 70+ international galleries and a week-long programme.

Free and open to all → RSVP at minorattractions.com

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 2d

Referencing Duchamp and Donatello, the Chinese-American artist’s self-portraits decode the gestures and refusals of the nude
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Referencing Duchamp and Donatello, the Chinese-American artist’s self-portraits decode the gestures and refusals of the nude

News: Title and preliminary list of artists announced for Diriyah Biennale 2026 | ArtReview

ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 3d

The Diriyah Biennale Foundation has announced the theme and preliminary list of artists for the third edition of the Biennale artreview.com/title-and-pr...

The Biennale’s third iteration is set to open on 30 January 2026

Feature: Inuuteq Storch – The Celestial and the Profane | ArtReview

ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 3d

Why the Greenlandic artist thinks photography is uniquely suited to telling the story of his homeland artreview.com/inuuteq-stor...

The Greenlandic artist explains why photography is uniquely suited to telling the story of his homeland, ahead of his exhibition on 9 October at MoMA PS1, New York

National Museum of Korea Faces Criticism Over Collaboration With BTS Hitmaker

ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 3d

The museum posted a photograph on social media of its director, Yoo Hong-jun, alongside HYBE chairman Bang Si-hyuk, who is currently under criminal investigation artreview.com/national-mus...

A collaboration between the National Museum Foundation of Korea and HYBE, the company behind k-pop band BTS and others, has been criticised

Review: Mirror Matter by Aubrey Levinthal at Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 3d

The artist’s wonky, playful paintings hide within them a layer of existential ambivalence artreview.com/aubrey-levin...

In the artist’s recent exhibition, she turns the motif of tupperware into something existential

Joy Gregory & Philip Miller’s Observations | ArtReview

ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 4d

How an artwork can be deeply political without being didactic artreview.com/joy-gregory-...

The art critic Tom Denman dissects a work by Joy Gregory & Philip Miller, currently on show at the Whitechapel Gallery

‘Two Horses’: A Poem by Ralf Webb

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Zander Leissle @alexanderleissle.bsky.social · 4d

A gorgeous new poem by Ralf Webb is out now: ‘Girls, I thought, understand / The attitudes of animals in motion. / Girls could reveal the nature of happy horses’ artreview.com/two-horses-a...

‘Girls, I thought, understand / The attitudes of animals in motion. / Girls could reveal the nature of happy horses’

Opinion: What Do We Actually Want From Literary Adaptations? | ArtReview

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 4d

When taking on a beloved text, you decide between uproar or fanaticism – both the fundamental traits of culture today
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The author Helen Charman on Emerald Fennell’s ’Wuthering Heights’, Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ and Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘One Battle After Another’

Review: 41st EVA International – It Takes a Village, Limerick | ArtReview

ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 4d

The 41st edition, ‘It Takes a Village’, might just pull off its somewhat hokey aspirations
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The 41st edition of the biennial, might just pull off its somewhat hokey aspirations, writes Irish critic Declan Long

Review: Soft You by Anthea Hamilton at Fondazione Memmo, Rome | ArtReview

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 4d

Last year, the artist staged an adaptation of Othello. Now she returns to the Venetian general with ‘Soft You’, expanding on the play’s ideas of identity, perception and fear
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Anthea Hamilton’s new exhibition is on view in Rome until 2 November

What Isn’t at the V&A Storehouse

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 6d

Yeah, the devaluing of collections work (and museums work more broadly) has been a worrying trend - your video reminded me of some criticisms of the recent opening of the V&A Storehouse: artreview.com/what-isnt-at...

You can’t escape it: this is the same colonial museum we know, in a shiny new suit

‘Two Horses’: A Poem by Ralf Webb

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 5d

Each month, we publish an original poem, written in response to a work of contemporary art. This month, poet Ralf Webb chose the film With Horses (2023) by Maeve Brennan
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‘Girls, I thought, understand / The attitudes of animals in motion. / Girls could reveal the nature of happy horses’

How Kerry James Marshall Restored Black Figures to the Western Canon

ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 7d

The ‘Black is Beautiful’ movement; Velázquezian references; Sleeping Beauty – it’s all there in Marshall’s monumental painted worlds
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The ‘Black is Beautiful’ movement; Velázquezian references; Sleeping Beauty – it’s all there in Marshall’s monumental painted worlds

Bangkok Art Biennale announces theme and artists for 2026 edition

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 7d

The Bangkok Art Biennale has announced the theme and an initial list of participating artists for its fifth edition, Angels and Mara artreview.com/bangkok-art-...

The fifth edition of the Biennale is titled ‘Angels and Mara’

Frivolous Power: Rewriting Marie Antoinette

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 8d

Why Marie Antoinette remains so culturally potent
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Framing the dethroned French queen as an early master of image-making, this show reminds us why Marie Antoinette remains so culturally potent