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iDEOLOGY: Leni Riefenstahl has had a controversial legacy. She insisted that she only made art and not politics. The new film about her is based on 700 boxes with around 50 photos, hundreds of film cassettes, correspondence, calendars, sound recordings and private recordings. Today there is reason to reflect on whether her fascist ideals still resonate in our time.

ART: How can art and craft be understood as different. In the publication with Aby Warburg's texts, we learn that matters that lie outside the work being studied must be emphasized in order to understand it. Like the release with Lina Bo Bardi, architecture is almost incomprehensible without knowing the context within which it appears.

VENICE: At its best, this year's Art Biennale in Venice shows us something about what the world is, where we stand, how we think and perhaps where we are going. This process of searching which is the dance of life. Curator Adriano Pedrosa found the occasion to speak for the indigenous peoples, the marginalized homosexuals, outsiders, the many displaced refugees and migrants worldwide. And furthermore: What does it mean to create and work in the void between the old religious narratives that no longer speak to us – and an uncertain future?

THE SHORT FILM FESTIVAL IN OBERHAUSEN: 'Machinima' – films made through computer games – reflect and illuminate the digital worlds we are moving ever further into. It is also reasonable to believe that artificial intelligence will make a significant impact on this field in the future.

PHOTO ART: Currently showing New Visions – The Henie Onstad Triennial for Photography and New Media. 22 artists, for example, bring to the fore issues of energy and natural resource extraction – and their consequences.

SUBJECTS: How should art stand out in a time when artistic work has come to resemble modern working life with its constant demands for communication, networking and visibility? Appearance and staging have become more important than content. Can we today actually rediscover our relationship with time, the experience of duration, practice doing less? Not being a means to an end?

AESTHETICS: In Kiøsterud's eco-philosophical text, 'beauty' becomes a riddle as much as a solution, a question as much as an answer. Is it possible to find beauty on nature's own terms – a beauty you cannot own?

WOMEN: Art done by men is simply given more attention: in collections, in exhibition programs, in art literature, in the art market. But what about the large number of female artists over the past 500 years?

FUTURE: From 2017 to 2019, we traveled around the country in the artist group Alt Går Bra to learn about the Norwegian population's visions for the society of the future. The second most popular theme was climate and sustainability (ten percent). Three percent answered freedom, according to technology optimism, education and the importance of roots. For the vast majority, a completely different factor was most important.

LIVSGNIST: First comes poverty and hardship, the diseases, the struggle to save lives. Then comes the sorrows of love, jealousy, envy, hatred, anxiety, greed, and greed for goods and gold.

INDIA: The Theater of Cruelty has just returned from India, where they participated in the 12th International Theater Festival in Kerala. We asked director Lars Øyno to reflect on their performance and experiences.

Agamben: The archeology of religion, art, politics, and capitalism is not a search for any kind of origin – but a search for a foundation that tears past notions to their roots.

ARTS & PHILOSOPHY: The earth as a whole has been transformed into human territory at the expense of all other forms of life. MODERN TIMES prints here an excerpt of the book Chaos, Territory, Art.

LITERATURE: In Behrendt's book, the undersigned is accused of "monumental misunderstandings and psychoanalytic short circuits". But does he consistently break the laws he tries to impose on others?

PHOTOGRAPH: Hannah Starkey's retrospective photo book depicts a maturing journey in women's eyes.

ABOUT ART: A remarkable instruction manual for the critical moments of art and life.