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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 3h
For all its suspicion of the contemporary artworld and its machinations, the art critic’s debut novel remains surprisingly sincere about art itself.
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‘The Floating World’ by Ben Eastham, Reviewed
For all its suspicion of the contemporary artworld and its machinations, the art critic’s debut novel remains surprisingly sincere about art itself
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 4h
The artist’s installation at Secession is undoubtedly spectacular, but does it move beyond that?
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Mire Lee’s Brutal Poetics
The artist’s installation at Secession is undoubtedly spectacular, but does it move beyond that?
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 14h
The shroud of apparent sincerity over the banal evils of technology is rapidly unravelling. What’s art got to do with it?
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Notes from New York: Antisocial Gallery Guide
The shroud of apparent sincerity over the banal evils of technology is rapidly unravelling. What’s art got to do with it?
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 16h
A far-right victory in the country will be a disaster for workers – and artists.
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A Bolsonaro Is Back. Can the Brazilian Left Recover?
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 17h
Is the future nomadic? Jeni Fulton takes a look at the extent to which private foundations are starting to eschew brick-and-mortar structures.
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The Rise of the Fluid Foundation
Is the future nomadic? Jeni Fulton takes a look at the extent to which private foundations are starting to eschew brick-and-mortar structures
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 19h
Why is the artworld so hungry for their panoramic visions of mass resistance?
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Taring Padi: Action – Nonstop
Why is the artworld so hungry for their panoramic visions of mass resistance?
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 21h
Philanthropy Today is out now. Get your free copy alongside ArtReview’s October issue here: artreview.com/the-artrevie... Philanthropy Today is supported by Hong Foundation, Fundación Ama Amoedo, Padimai Art & Tech Studio, Amos Anderson Fund & Amos Rex and PARKSEOBO FOUNDATION.
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 22h
Akshi Singh looks back on the work of Anne Carson, who today won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature
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When Raising Your Voice Is Not Enough to Be Heard
The sounds of protest and resistance produced by women are caught in a political contradiction, as Anne Carson’s ‘The Gender of Sound’ explores
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From experimental instruments to architectural acoustics, the Lebanese artist explores how listening can alter our experience of bodies, spaces and environments.
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Tarek Atoui’s Echo Chamber
From experimental instruments to architectural acoustics, the Lebanese artist explores how listening can alter our experience of bodies, spaces and environments
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
ArtReview's October 2026 issue is out now. Get your copy here: artreview.com/artreview-oc...
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to around the world this month – from London and Paris to Tokyo and Tunis
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The 13 Exhibitions to See in October 2026
Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to around the world this month – from London and Paris to Tokyo and Tunis
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Is the quest to document the world ever more than just a bid for control?
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What Can Art Do That an Observatory Cannot?
And is the quest to document the world ever more than just a bid for control?
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Riffing off Chaplin, Caguiat Delacruz’s new film acts as a proxy for artists mourning the slow demise of radical culture.
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Caguiat Delacruz’s Modern Tramp
Riffing off Chaplin, Caguiat Delacruz’s new film acts as a proxy for artists mourning the slow demise of radical culture
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In the distinctly contemporary collages of one Buddhist artist, Suraj Yengde finds echoes of a tradition that stretches back centuries.
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How Stephen Batchelor Pictures Ethics
In the distinctly contemporary collages of one Buddhist artist, Suraj Yengde finds echoes of a tradition that stretches back centuries
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The sixth edition of the New Museum Triennial will take place from 4 February to 16 May, the New Museum has announced. It will be the first since the museum’s reopening in March, following two years of construction on its expansion.
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Details announced for 2027 New Museum Triennial
This edition will be the first since the museum’s reopening in March, following two years of construction
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Asian Art Biennial has announced the full list of participating artists for the 10th edition of the Asian Art Biennial, which will take place at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) from 7 November to 28 February.
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Artists announced for 2026 Asian Art Biennial
The exhibition, curated by Lu Pei-Yi, will be titled ‘Mrahul Tminun · 共織 · Co-Weaving’
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Following his appointment as Tai Kwun’s ‘head of art’ in January, Philip Tinari has been named director of Tai Kwun Arts.
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Philip Tinari named director of Tai Kwun Arts
Tinari will take on the former role of longtime director Timothy Calnin
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Robyn Hunt @accease.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Such an interesting piece about blindness and #photography. Critiquing simulation and observing #disability objectification., and the relationship between blindness and a visual medium. #blind #blindness #arts #artsaccess artreview.com/obscured-por...
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How Disability Reshapes Photography
Surveying the historic representation of the blind and visually impaired in photography – and even simulating their experience – a new show in Taipei expands what ‘seeing’ can mean
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Paulo Pedro Leal’s absence from the narrative is difficult to reconcile with the force of his paintings, enlivening knife-fights and bar-brawls with a remarkable formal sophistication.
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Why Paulo Pedro Leal Belongs in Brazilian Art History
Leal’s absence from the narrative is difficult to reconcile with the force of his paintings, enlivening knife-fights and bar-brawls with a remarkable formal sophistication
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to around the world this month – from London and Paris to Tokyo and Tunis.
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The 13 Exhibitions to See in October 2026
Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to around the world this month – from London and Paris to Tokyo and Tunis
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The 2026 Lagos Biennial, titled 'The Museum of Things Unseen' and curated by Furen Dai, Chinyere Obieze and Sam Hopkins, has announced its list of participating artists.
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Artists announced for 2026 Lagos Biennial
The biennial, titled ‘The Museum of Things Unseen’ is curated by Furen Dai, Chinyere Obieze and Sam Hopkins
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The real goal of 'Dark Horse', the biopic dramatising the life of Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s jailed former president, could be to lay the narrative groundwork for US interference in the country’s electoral process, something about which the incumbent Lula government has shown great concern.
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‘Dark Horse’: The Bolsonaro Biopic You Have to See to Believe
A shockingly revisionist script; questionably sourced funding; backing from the US MAGA faction – and all building up to Brazil’s October elections. Euan Marshall tries to take this thing seriously
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
An exhibition examining ‘heat as bodily sensation, historical memory and cultural language’ is more a hotchpotch of the three curators’ pet topics than a satisfying whole.
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How Do You Picture Heat?
An exhibition examining ‘heat as bodily sensation, historical memory and cultural language’ is more a hotchpotch of the three curators’ pet topics than a satisfying whole
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
‘Bizarre Life’ asserts that an image can surrender its photographic identity while retaining an iconographic power.
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Laila Majid and Louis Blue Newby’s Feed Logic
‘Bizarre Life’ asserts that an image can surrender its photographic identity while retaining an iconographic power
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The artist ponders the long game of embroidery, having too many ideas at once, where to sit in a puppet show and whether making fashion is selling out.
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The Interview: Eko Nugroho
The artist ponders the long game of embroidery, having too many ideas at once, where to sit in a puppet show and whether making fashion is selling out
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Political dissidence, enshittified film, ambient sound-gardens – ArtReview editors on the off-site pavilions and exhibitions not to miss at the 61st Venice Biennale, running from 9 May through 22 November 2026.
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Venice Biennale 2026 Highlights: Off-Site Exhibitions
ArtReview editors on the off-site pavilions and exhibitions not to miss at the 61st Venice Biennale
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Naked piss-tank dancers; Wohnung dioramas; monuments to massacre and more – ArtReview editors on the national pavilions not to miss at the 61st Venice Biennale, running from 9 May through 22 November 2026.
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Venice Biennale 2026 Highlights: Arsenale & Giardini
Naked piss-tank dancers; Wohnung dioramas; monuments to massacre, and more – ArtReview editors on the national pavilions not to miss at the 61st Venice Biennale
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Defending connoisseurship, criticism and collective intelligence in the age of AI slop
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Is the Artworld Intelligent?
Defending connoisseurship, criticism and collective intelligence in the age of AI slop
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s sometimes hard to know where Na Hong-jin’s monster movie, reportedly the most expensive Korean movie ever made, is going – other than on and on.
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Does ‘Hope’ Mean Anything at All?
It’s sometimes hard to know where Na Hong-jin’s monster movie, reportedly the most expensive Korean movie ever made, is going – other than on and on
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Staging subjects of racial inequality, power and a yearning for better futures, the artist keeps things fluid.
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Candace Hill-Montgomery’s Spaces of Incompletion
Staging subjects of racial inequality, power and a yearning for better futures, the artist keeps things fluid
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s not just the earth that’s being turned over in the redeveloping London’s ‘creative quarter’, writes Clive Chijioke Nwonka.
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What Happened to Hackney Wick?
It’s not just the earth that’s being turned over in the redeveloping London’s ‘creative quarter’
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Through restagings and reconstitutions of Mike Kelley’s past performances, Mary McIntyre and Robert Anderson question our relationship with images and reality.
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Mary McIntyre and Robert Anderson’s Found Image Fandom
Through restagings and reconstitutions of Mike Kelley’s past performances, the artists question our relationship with images and reality
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Japanese artist’s symphony of decomposing matter and broken things offers a poetic reflection on the disjointed state of modern life.
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Yuko Mohri: How to Love Broken Things
The Japanese artist’s symphony of decomposing matter and broken things offers a poetic reflection on the disjointed state of modern life
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Grotesquerie has long been the language of rebellion. On our screens and in the contemporary art gallery, an era of ugly, morbidly playful satire is back
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The Distended Forms of Grotesque Satire
Grotesquerie has long been the language of rebellion. On our screens and in the contemporary art gallery, an era of ugly, morbidly playful satire is back
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The artist is interested in the role clothes serve as both a means of presentation and of concealment.
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Zhi Wei Holds the Thread
The artist is interested in the role clothes serve as both a means of presentation and of concealment
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Staging artist Beryl Cook’s sculptures in the UK’s late-capitalist haven tells Owen Hatherley plenty about the various false aesthetics of ‘Englishness’.
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Strange England: When Beryl Cook Went to Bicester Village
Staging the artist’s sculptures in the UK’s late-capitalist haven tells Owen Hatherley plenty about the various false aesthetics of ‘Englishness’
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The exhibition is at its best when work evokes the minutiae and anguish of emotional, embodied, everyday struggles.
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Pattani Biennale 2026 Review: A Hopeful Aftertaste
The exhibition is at its best when work evokes the minutiae and anguish of emotional, embodied, everyday struggles
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s sometimes hard to know where Na Hong-jin’s monster movie, reportedly the most expensive Korean movie ever made, is going – other than on and on.
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Does ‘Hope’ Mean Anything at All?
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
'Bizarre Life' asserts that an image can surrender its photographic identity while retaining an iconographic power.
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Laila Majid and Louis Blue Newby’s Feed Logic
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We seem to be living in an era of competitive shamelessness
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‘A Philosophy of Shame’: What’s Wrong With Everyone?
We seem to be living in an era of competitive shamelessness
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The eroded assemblages and crumbling structures of Beverly Buchanan were ahead of their time, but worthy of ours. artreview.com/beverly-bucha...
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Violence exceeds the physical, operating structurally and pervasively, to the point that it is naturalised as the very air we breathe.”
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The Interview: Gabrielle Goliath
“Violence exceeds the physical, operating structurally and pervasively, to the point that it is naturalised as the very air we breathe”
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Visually seductive, responsibly researched, culturally portable and diplomatic, 'In Minor Keys' is a protest conducted with fine-print slogans and no concrete demands.
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The 2026 Venice Biennale Is Quintessential Biennial Art
Visually seductive, responsibly researched, culturally portable and diplomatic, In Minor Keys is a protest conducted with fine-print slogans and no concrete demands
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Marta Zboralska @marta-zboralska.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Its clientele is largely international, with the ‘village’ element surely secondary to the fact that this is really a place for people who would both like, and can afford, a Vivienne Westwood bag but are tight enough to travel to Oxfordshire to get it at a 20 percent discount.”
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Staging the artist’s sculptures in the UK’s late-capitalist haven tells Owen Hatherley plenty about the various false aesthetics of ‘Englishness’.
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Strange England: When Beryl Cook Went to Bicester Village
Staging the artist’s sculptures in the UK’s late-capitalist haven tells Owen Hatherley plenty about the various false aesthetics of ‘Englishness’
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s not just the earth that’s being turned over in the redeveloping London’s ‘creative quarter’, writes Clive Chijioke Nwonka.
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What Happened to Hackney Wick?
It’s not just the earth that’s being turned over in the redeveloping London’s ‘creative quarter’
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Clive Chijioke Nwonka looks to the redevelopment of London’s Hackney Wick into a ‘creative quarter’, and considers the unevenness that occurs when cultural institutions are enlisted for such endeavours.
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What Happened to Hackney Wick?
It’s not just the earth that’s being turned over in the redeveloping London’s ‘creative quarter’
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Through restagings and reconstitutions of Mike Kelley’s past performances, artists Mary McIntyre and Robert Anderson question our relationship with images and reality.
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Mary McIntyre and Robert Anderson’s Found Image Fandom
Through restagings and reconstitutions of Mike Kelley’s past performances, the artists question our relationship with images and reality
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This year's Pattani Biennale is at its best when work evokes the minutiae and anguish of emotional, embodied, everyday struggles.
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Pattani Biennale 2026 Review: A Hopeful Aftertaste
The exhibition is at its best when work evokes the minutiae and anguish of emotional, embodied, everyday struggles
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Japanese artist’s symphony of decomposing matter and broken things offers a poetic reflection on the disjointed state of modern life.
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Yuko Mohri: How to Love Broken Things
The Japanese artist’s symphony of decomposing matter and broken things offers a poetic reflection on the disjointed state of modern life
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