Florentina Holzinger Turns Spectacle into an Act of Care
10 June 2026 • Camille Moreno
Nine-hour performance sees Florentina Holzinger transform spectacle, risk and nudity into a meditation on trust, care and collective experience.
Tag: art criticism
FAD NEWS: Former BBC Rivals Unite for New Art History Podcast: Stories of Art
21 May 2026 • Mark Westall
HENI Talks launches Stories of Art, a new weekly podcast bringing together James Fox and Alastair Sooke
5 very different art fairs throughout two days in New York City
15 May 2026 • Rayya Fadlo Khuri
After crawling through these 5 fairs (Frieze, NADA, Independent, 1-54, Esther III) during New York Art Fair Week, I found larger themes..
Eyes Wide Open: The Surreal Worlds of Olga Puzikova
15 May 2026 • Tabish Khan
The surreal, the spiritual and the stars.
What’s the afterlife of performed artworks? ‘Forum: Bread and games’ investigates
10 March 2020 • Irene Machetti
How do we perceive objects when they become “activated” by a performer? Can there be, thereafter, a neutral spectatorship? ‘Forum: Bread and Games’, curated by Natalija Pauni for Open Space Contemporary, reflects on these questions, considering the precariousness of authors’ ideas and authorship.
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #93: On Good and Bad, Part II
30 October 2015 • daniel barnes
The death of Brian Sewell heralded the death of art criticism. Or so I said. It was an inflammatory claim, designed to rile, but there was a grain of anxious serious in it. Sewell was not just a contrarian, he was an astute critic of refined tastes and a conscientious objector.
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #90: On Good and Bad, Part I
10 October 2015 • daniel barnes
Criticism and all aesthetic debate is founded on a toxic belief in subjectivity which reduces to relativism.
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #88: The Life of Brian and the Death of Art Criticism
25 September 2015 • daniel barnes
The death of Brian Sewell is a great tragedy. Never again will the acres of art criticism generated by Britain’s newspapers be punctuated by a single shard of intellectual rigour.