In the March issue of ArtReview, Amber Husain wonders why there is a tendency to sentimentalise Agnes Denes’s Wheatfield, an artwork often cited – misguidedly – as a model for contemporary urban greening developments in the service of gentrification.
Tyler Coburn reports on an artist collective’s attempt to define contemporary art in Kyrgyzstan through performance, wordplay, tradition and politics. Adeline Chia discusses the ‘flow’ of Pratchaya Phinthong’s work and its transformative possibilities in people, objects and relationships. Camille Georgeson-Usher basks in Tanya Lukin Linklater’s atmospheric choreographies. And Rachel M. Tang discovers how Indigenous artist Kite translates dreams, performance and sound into datasets. ArtReview revisits Gabriel García Márquez’s 1982 Nobel Prize acceptance speech highlighting Europe’s and the United States’s double standard in celebrating Latin American cultural output while undermining its political autonomy.
Plus: Michelle Santiago Cortés explores the tech-bro longevity complex, Ilaria Maria Sala considers the costs of the development of Hong Kong’s Shenzhen-bordering Northern Metropolis and Rosanna McLaughlin reads Tarot through the ages; followed by two dozen international exhibition and book reviews, as well as an exclusive comic from Bhanu Pratap.
Art Observed
- Long Live the Tech Bros by Michelle Santiago Cortés
- The Enduring Appeal of Tarot by Rosanna McLaughlin
- Hong Kong’s Northern Metropolis by Ilaria Maria Sala
Art Featured
- Pratchaya Phinthong by Adeline Chia
- Tanya Lukin Linklater by Camille Georgeson-Usher
- Kite by Rachel M. Tang
- Agnes Denes by Amber Husain
- Zamanbap art by Tyler Coburn
- The Solitude of Latin America by Gabriel García Márquez; annotated by ArtReview
Art Reviewed
- Exhibitions
- Hamad Butt, by Declan Long
- Marnie Weber, by Martin Herbert
- Ceidra Moon Murphy, by Louise Benson
- Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968, by Claudia Ross
- Sohrab Hura, by Jenny Wu
- On Kawara, by Jennifer Teets
- Ryan Gander, by Valerie Mindlin
- 11th Asia Pacific Triennial, by Naomi Riddle
- Martin Parr, by Ella Nixon
- Guido Münch, by Gabriel Levine
- Kenneth Tam, by Marcus Civin
- Renata Lucas, by Mateus Nunes
- Gregg Bordowitz, by Tendai Mutambu
- Cinzia Ruggeri and Birgit Jürgenssen, by Giovanna Manzotti
- Claudia Martínez Garay, by Salena Barry
- Leonora Carrington, by Theadora Walsh
- Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, by Alexander Leissle
- Huidi Xiang, by Tom McGlynn
- American Job: 1940–2011, by Sophie van Well Groeneveld
- Noah Davis, by J.J. Charlesworth
Books
- Silent Catastrophes: Essays in Austrian Literature, by W.G. Sebald, reviewed by Brian Dillon
- The National Gallery: Paintings, People, Portraits, edited by Anh Nguyen and Rebecca Marks, reviewed by Mark Rappolt
- When We Sold God’s Eye: Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon, by Alex Cuadros, reviewed by Oliver Basciano
- Strange Pictures, by Uketsu, reviewed by Chris Fite-Wassilak
- Those Passions: On Art and Politics, by T. J. Clark, reviewed by Craig Burnett
- Hokusai’s Method, edited by Kyoko Wada, reviewed by Mia Stern
Comic by Bhanu Pratap
