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  • Musical Chairs! – Weekly Blog Posts

    ~Fools Return to Their Folly, Dogs Return to Their Vomit~ Week No. 29 On Kafka The use of the sentimental is that it is a vision that emerges in the day, it casts back, but, inevitable in that gesture, must be carried forward, by how far and with what momentum it can and does cast…

  • Homelessness and Public Art

    ~Adriana Lasheras Mabanta’s Review of Matthew Darbyshire’s 2018 Installation ~ I used to rent a room in a third floor apartment which used to be a part of the old Olympic Village in Amsterdam. Though the complex was built for the 1928 Olympic Games, it was always intended to become residential housing after they concluded.…

  • On Aske Thiberg’s “Shutting Out The Sun”

    ~Ian Macartney’s Ekphrasis inside the Many Walled Cities of Copenhagen~ Originally presented at the Ek Symposium, Glasgow Project Room, September 13th 2025~ Aske Thiberg is moving, but he’s going nowhere. His 2024 debut solo show (at Copenhagen’s Overgaden Institut for Samtidskunst, right by the Christianshavn metro stop) is a trilogy of performances. The first is by…

  • Iain Sterdam gets The Swells

    ~A Long-Form ‘Review’ of the Melanie Bonajo Show at Akinci~ Unlike what is common in most men, the slowing of the blood formation system until dysfunction, my erections didn’t start till I was twenty-eight, and even then I could only get a semi. As a child I wondered what was wrong with me. I saw…

  • Iain Sterdam goes to Annet Gelink

    ~The Next Revolution In Art Will Be The Same, Old Revolution~ Because the artist is working within the tradition of the nude, which is an already an abstraction of the naked, I don’t know what the artist is trying to convey by abstracting the nude, further, by covering the faces of her subjects. The mask…