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 @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!

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...

"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 artreview.com/what-isnt-at...

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

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...

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

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...

Join Rosanna McLaughlin and Fi Churchman at the ArtReview Bar on 25 June as they discuss McLaughlin’s new book, ‘Against Morality’. ⁠ ⁠RSVP essential to [email protected]

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...

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...

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

'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

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. www.the-tls.co.uk/issues/cu...

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...

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...

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

Here’s my review of the new National Gallery entrance and rehang, which opens tomorrow. artreview.com/national-gal...

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-...

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

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...

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

I read all 500 and something pages of the new Preciado book and wrote this review. I did not enjoy it. Sometimes things are actually not that much like other things. artreview.com/paul-preciad...

The trend, it seems, among curators and institutions globally, is to ‘correct’ art history by reversing the erasure of the Global South from a history written in and by the Global North. But what you can’t do is correct some parts of history and not others artreview.com/the-institut...

This is liquid Guardian-brain. In fact, I love this entropic idea of radicalism: shaking up the status quo into a a new version of the same thing, like making potatoes out of mashed crisps www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

At what point will simply ‘doing a genre’ cease to be some kind of radical act? And can we get there already please

As online access to information becomes increasingly restricted, even the noblest feats of preservation and archiving are being hijacked artreview.com/we-all-have-...

Seriously though: why is everyone on the tube reading Butter?

Loved Amber’s work on this. ‘This kind of stage-managed wilderness may appeal to the green sensibility, but... it rests on an “ecology” that excludes from its calculus those kinds of people and nature deemed unhelpful to the aim of accumulation’ artreview.com/youre-missin...

For some years now, I've loved how Camille Ralphs layers language in her poems, building clarity then folding a phrase back on itself, like an elastic band twisting inwards to tighten. Camille’s new poem for @artreview.bsky.social is out now artreview.com/the-romance-...

This month’s @artreview.bsky.social Movie Club features the Venezuelan artist Valentina Alvarado Matos, whose films I saw at LIAF 2024 and introduce here – considering the evolving technologies of communication artreview.com/art-lovers-m...

Wrote about Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s new works, which – somehow – are the first to be formally reviewed in @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/lynette-yiad...

With some thoughts on ‘American Photography’, among others artreview.com/the-10-exhib...

Loved doing this, @artreview.bsky.social are running an exciting new series where they ask poets to respond to contemporary works of art. I chose Mika Tajima’s Art d’Ameublement series. thanks to @alexanderleissle.bsky.social artreview.com/art-dameuble...

I’m pretty chuffed about our @artreview.bsky.social New Poems series – original poems responding to a work of contemporary art, every month and beginning today with a disquieting beauty by @lucymercer.bsky.social artreview.com/art-dameuble...

🔊Podcast producers: we are seeking a freelance producer at @artreview.bsky.social for an exciting upcoming editorial project. Ideally based in London but can be remote. Get in touch on here or email me at [email protected] 📩

Reviewed Gili Tal’s show at Cabinet, which made me wonder if abstraction is sometimes also a kind of evasion artreview.com/gili-tal-the...

At @artreview.bsky.social I am looking for new writers for opinion-led columns, expansive reviews and on-the-ground reporting to tackle social and political questions (both big and small) through the world of art and culture. Here are some highlights from our publishing over the last few months.

Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to this month, from Jeddah’s Islamic Arts Biennale 2025 to an exhibition of Brazilian modernism artreview.com/the-10-exhib...

In this time-collapsing tale of Soviet astronautics, the artist duo ask who space is really for. Stream for free, with an introduction by @alexanderleissle.bsky.social: artreview.com/art-lovers-m...

I introduced this month’s edition of our Art Lovers Movie Club. It’s a film featuring Chinese karaoke, nineteenth-century Tsarist dissidents, and Sergei Krikalev (the Russian cosmonaut who was stranded in orbit during the dissolution of the USSR) artreview.com/art-lovers-m...

Looking real long and close at every present – taking a step back, changing angle, frowning gently – because I’m an art critic

You can explore the full series here, which I commissioned with the excellent @alexanderleissle.bsky.social, and I’ll follow-up with a wider selection from our main digital commissioning in a separate thread. artreview.com/category/the...

Too many favourites to choose from in Walter Scott’s strip artreview.com/the-critics-...

I wrote about the Nosferatu fragrance xoxo artreview.com/the-artrevie...

I’m back in Berlin this week and still grappling with the status of English as dominant lang in commercial spaces. Bring pro-German-lang feels regressive/onside with the Right; but the territorialness of English speaking (majorly, an authority of migrated Westerners) feels wrong too…

contributed to @artreview.bsky.social end of year package with my thoughts on the Year in Technology artreview.com/the-year-in-...

Today’s mailer features our commentary on the new Venice Biennale curator, and some notes on where this business of curating is at today mailchi.mp/artreview/ko...