ANNOUNCEMENTS
KALEIDOSCOPE
November 19, 2018
KALEIDOSCOPE issue 33 FW18/19 takeover at Spazio Maiocchi
On November 30, 2018, KALEIDOSCOPE will take over the entire surface of Spazio Maiocchi in Milan, curating a multimedia experience which brings together a diverse selection of international artists featured in the magazine’s newly-released fall/winter issue. Guest of honor will be Virgil Abloh, presenting a specially-designed collector’s edition of KALEIDOSCOPE printed in 300 copies, while also unveiling a new installation and billboard... continue reading
Blindspot Gallery
November 19, 2018
Hao Jingban at Blindspot Gallery
Hao Jingban’s first solo exhibition at Blindspot Gallery—Uninvited Guests—will feature three new video works from the her most recent project using the Manchukuo of the 1930s–40s as background. The artist conducts historical investigation, archival research, field study and personal interviews, tracing back to the propaganda, drama and documentary films, as well as related figures, from the period of the Manchukuo Film Association.... continue reading
Kristof De Clercq gallery
November 16, 2018
Johan Grimonprez at Kristof De Clercq gallery
With his film dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, one of the discoveries of Documenta X (1997, Kassel), the Belgian multimedia artist and film-maker Johan Grimonprez (b.1962, Roeselare) conquered the international art world from a position of apparent obscurity. He subsequently received worldwide acclaim with his films Double Take (2009), Shadow World (2016, winner of the Ultima 2018, the Flemish culture prize for film), and Blue Orchids (2017).... continue reading
REVIEWS
If there ever was an ars poetica for house music, it might be the one articulated by Chuck Roberts that Larry Heard incorporated into a 1988 remix of his own groundbreaking single “Can You Feel It” (1986). Roberts’s proclamation is a nearly two-minute-long origin story delivered in sermonic fashion featuring... continue reading
Double Take is a feature of art-agenda in which two authors review the same exhibition. Written separately, the two texts share the same images and are published below. —By Orit Gat I first came to the United States as an “international student.” At the risk of bothering the current administration, I stayed... continue reading
The dedication of the guidebook accompanying “Long March Project: Building Code Violations III – Special Economic Zone” reads: “To the freezone imagineers.” A portmanteau combining “imagination” and “engineering,” “imagineering” was first coined by the Alcoa Corporation during World War II, and later popularized—and trademarked—by the Walt Disney Company during the... continue reading
