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Zander Leissle @alexanderleissle.bsky.social · 3d

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...

‘Two Horses’: A Poem by Ralf Webb

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

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Michelle Santiago Cortés @michelle-sc.bsky.social · 27d

is AI *actually* the aesthetic of fascism? I think a lot of the discourse has gotten it wrong, and I explained why in my latest for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/the-fascinat...

The ‘Fascinating Fascism’ of AI

The US government’s anniversary AI project tells us nothing about American history and everything about today’s America

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Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · Sep 7

The @artreview.bsky.social newsletter, rather like the @africasacountry.bsky.social newsletter, is consistently excellent. Among the handful of emails I always read & feel grateful for. Good writing, great editing. Allelujah!

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · Sep 3

The state of art criticism today resembles a crisis of freedom, where one reality has been rejected but another has yet to be conceived artreview.com/notes-from-n...

Notes from New York: Art Critics and Gangster Capitalism

The state of art criticism today resembles a crisis of freedom, when one reality has been rejected but another has yet to be conceived

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · Aug 15

"What isn't at the V&A?" — new from me in @artreview.bsky.social on enduring colonialism, art-washing working class heritage, and a museum without labels
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What Isn’t at the V&A Storehouse

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

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Michelle Santiago Cortés @michelle-sc.bsky.social · Aug 13

the internet is for lying! artreview.com/why-do-we-ha...

Why Do We Have to Be Ourselves Online?

Age verification and data collection require there be no slippage between who governments think we are and who we want ourselves to be – which was the whole point of the internet in the first place

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Zander Leissle @alexanderleissle.bsky.social · Jul 22

For @artreview.bsky.social I reviewed 'Unsettled Earth', an exhibition countering the razing of Palestinian land and erasure of its history. It strikes me that art, while incapable of much else here, can re-introduce the full emotionality of a people and their homeland artreview.com/unsettled-ea...

‘Unsettled Earth’: The Artists Resisting Palestinian Erasure

A new group show and study programme at Berlin’s Spore Initiative reconnects the Palestinian story to the land: how it is experienced, remembered, worked, violated

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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · Jul 16

i wrote about john donne, cronenberg's The Shrouds, and the location of love for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/david-cronen...

David Cronenberg: Grieving in the Digital Age

In his latest film ‘The Shrouds’, characters can livestream their loved ones rotting in the grave. Is this a new monumentalism?

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · Jul 2

ArtReview Asia Summer 2025 is out now – featuring Shilpa Gupta, Shimabuku, Bachtiar Siagian; commentary on China’s zombie museums, and legacies of the Black Panther Movement; and much more artreview.com/artreview-as...

ArtReview Asia Summer 2025 Issue Out Now

Featuring Shilpa Gupta, Shimabuku, Bachtiar Siagian; commentary on China’s zombie museums, and legacies of the Black Panther Movement; and much more

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · Jun 23

Join Rosanna McLaughlin and Fi Churchman at the ArtReview Bar on 25 June as they discuss McLaughlin’s new book, ‘Against Morality’. ⁠

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Zander Leissle @alexanderleissle.bsky.social · Jun 18

Good to know that @bsky.app thinks the image is too much...

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · Jun 18

Defining ‘woman’ by biological female sex isn’t just about excluding trans people from single-sex spaces. It also highlights how little respect governing bodies have for the community as a whole artreview.com/the-trans-co...

The Trans Community Refuses to Be Erased

Defining ‘woman’ by biological female sex isn’t just about excluding trans people from single-sex spaces. It also highlights how little respect governing bodies have for the trans community as a whole

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Zander Leissle @alexanderleissle.bsky.social · Jun 17

My review of Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s work is now up on @artreview.bsky.social. Big, vertiginous tapestries and some conceptual trickery later on. Whether it’s what you want from art or not, I think it works. artreview.com/ailbhe-ni-bh...

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain: Things Falling Apart

Across largescale tapestries and adroit conceptual works, the artist examines the destructive forces in the world

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · Jun 16

Across largescale tapestries and adroit conceptual works, the artist examines the destructive forces in the world artreview.com/ailbhe-ni-bh...

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain: Things Falling Apart

Across largescale tapestries and adroit conceptual works, the artist examines the destructive forces in the world

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · Jun 8

'Kehlmann frequently compares his subject’s compliant life under the Nazi regime to that lived on a film set.'

Alexander Leissle on the compromises and self-justifications of G. W. Pabst

Not a political person

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · Jun 4

Gertrude Stein’s literary experiments; celebrity mystics; the compromises of G. W. Pabst; a tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa; Toni Morrison’s books – and much more.

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Zander Leissle @alexanderleissle.bsky.social · Jun 5

I'm in the new @thetls.bsky.social, reviewing Daniel Kehlmann’s latest novel – about G. W. Pabst, art’s relationship to fascism, and the ways in which aesthetic taste and social ethics are interlinked www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/f...

Not a political person

An expert film director, frustrated by the creative restriction and cultural shallowness of Hollywood’s so-called golden age, returns with his loyal

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Michelle Santiago Cortés @michelle-sc.bsky.social · Jun 4

I went long on how policy, colonialism, being neglect, diaspora and the contemporary art market produce layers of visibility and obscurity for Santurce's contemporary art scene for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/how-to-see-t...

How to See the Puerto Rican Art Scene

The island faces a challenge of visibility, with barriers imposed by imperial neglect, poor urban infrastructure and a lack of local arts journalism. But discoverability and visibility can come at a c...

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Zander Leissle @alexanderleissle.bsky.social · Jun 3

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Zander Leissle @alexanderleissle.bsky.social · May 21

I'm convinced that Max Cooper, Max Porter and Charlie Porter are all the same person

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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · May 9

Here’s my review of the new National Gallery entrance and rehang, which opens tomorrow.

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National Gallery Rehang: First Pleasure, Then Politics

The gallery’s much heralded rehang avoids burdening the art of the past with the politics of today as it reconsiders what the modern visitor really wants

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Dr Sarah Jilani @sarahjilani.bsky.social · May 16

In the May issue of @artreview.bsky.social, I offer a little provocation: lets do away with 'global south' & 'global majority'. There is no shared hemispheric condition between exploiter & exploited, & the geographies of neocolonialism aren't natural or demographic. artreview.com/the-trap-of-...

The Trap of Catchalls

Baggy terms such as ‘Global South’ and ‘Global Majority’ are useless, because you can’t address what you can’t describe

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · Apr 22

Celebrity authors are rebranding themselves as philosophers of art; an extraordinary dumbing down of culture has occurred artreview.com/dont-listen-...

Don’t Listen to the Art Gurus

Celebrity authors are rebranding themselves as philosophers of art; an extraordinary dumbing down of culture has occurred

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · Apr 14

Each month, we publish an original poem written in response to a work of contemporary art. This month, poet Oluwaseun Olayiwola has chosen a work by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami artreview.com/do-not-say-t...

‘Do Not Say The “D” Word’: A Poem by Oluwaseun Olayiwola

‘which of us / is in servitude’s work? 0)))0(((0 / which takes the bird’s eye?(*))))’

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Zander Leissle @alexanderleissle.bsky.social · Apr 1

Why disgusting things are actually really important, for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/bianca-hlywa...

Bianca Hlywa: In Defence of Disgusting Art

At St. Chads, London, the artist has installed a smelly, sticky clump of live yeast culture in the gallery. It’s the beginnings of a lesson about art, life and the creatures we create

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