Extreme artist's mirror
Marina Abramovic's autobiography is as uncompromising and confrontational as her performance art.
The working class is desperately trying to defend its dignity
French sociologist Didier Eribon's book on growing up as a gay working class child became a bestseller in Germany last year. Now Return to Reims has been staged by theater director Thomas Ostermeier.
People avoid seeing the hurt in the world
New Time has met an artist who wants to show people what they do not want to see: the dark sides of man.
Photo book – an expanding language
The photo book fills a void that the digital viewing space cannot fill, and therefore becomes even more important for a generation flooded with images.
A rhizomatic world
The ZKM Center for Arts and Media in Karlsruhe will create a greater understanding of the different expressions of media art from a historical perspective.
Photographs extended in time
PHOTOGRAPHY: The most interesting thing about Fiona Tan's exhibition is the question of how the self is expressed through photographic images.
Refugees: Art project stranded
Strong protests made Franco "Bifo" Berardi's planned performance Auschwitz on the Beach on Documenta 14 instead turned into poetry reading and panel debate.
Attempt to be alive
What happens to the art of a time without permanence, where everyone is left to a floating, infinite space?
Idleness is the root of all art
The primal power can be found in amateur orchestras, rhymesmiths and trivial glossy pictures, Asger Jorn believed. A colorful explosive is finally available in Norwegian.
The escape from the common problems
Recently deceased Zygmunt Bauman is known for his grim social diagnoses. Where is the medicine?
Part of the general education
How many photos do you think an ordinary school class produces in a year? Tens of thousands? Millions? And how many school hours do students have in the year of car teaching? Five? Ten?
Artificial fertilized art
Kva grew up desirous of Norway's largest industrial adventure, asks artists who exhibit in Grenland in May.
The banal emptiness of war
It is the space of war – all that is beyond the sensational – Christoph Bangert shows us in his new project.
Against the light of socialism
Nina Björk leads us through the fog of consumer power and identity politics, along with Rosa Luxemburg.
Great moments of imperfection
Guttorm Nordø stages our experience of being in the world – as if we had just arrived.
In the bottom form
Some of the best works in art history have been created by artists who have been to institutions. Judith Scott was such an artist.
Landscape without women
When the exhibition "The Magical North" opens in Helsinki, it is mainly male Norwegian artists that the audience can see.
Theater as a necessity
In order to defy the political and social conditions in which they live without falling into vulgarities and counterfeiting, the theater has become indispensable in Gaza.
The manifesto as an art form
The film installation Manifesto, which will be on display at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin these days, addresses some of the many paradoxes that stick to the manifesto genre – both in its political and artistic setbacks.
Post-Francoic stress syndrome
Nobel laureate Javier Marías writes strongly about Spain in the years following Franco.
Movies from the East
Horror, anime, samurai film, experiment, costume drama, monster movie and softcore – all Japanese films are in tension between east and west.
A future cast in concrete
The elevated concrete is about to be erected – both architecturally and sculpturally.
When the statues speak
Three statues – a goddess in New York, a prime minister in Tel Aviv and a Bolshevik in Moscow – have been thrown into political strife in their homelands, provoking fierce disagreements.
No one to bring your charge against, for your mistakes, your insensitivity and stupidity
KROPSTEATER: Wearing black suit, black mask, black gloves, half human, half insect, clattering like the beetle…