The Arts: General Issues

Transformations in Cuban art, literature and culture in the post-Fidel eraCuba has been in a state of massive transformation over the past decade, ...

The oeuvre of Peter Land (*1966 in Aarhus) revolves around the subject of man''s failure to accomplish the everyday and existential tasks of life. ...

In his essay, Arjun Appadurai reflects on the significance of Gandhi''s ideas on non-violence as a form of political action in India, pursuing the ...

Mario Bellatin's oeuvre is characterized by an experimental and fragmented mode of narration that artfully links reality and fiction. In his text, ...

Writing notes is an essential component of academic life, a ritual that is performed with as many handwritings as there are individuals. In her ess...

In recent decades, the art world''s interest in archives has increased steadily, developing into a true compulsion to archive. In her text, Suely...

Expand your shredding into the brave new world of the Classical violin repertoire with one of the great masterpieces: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concert...

Helge Achenbach (*1952) is one of the world''s most prominent art consultants. He could even be described as the inventor of this metier. This book...

In 1973, an employee of the Deutsche Bank in Heidelberg identified the influential sociologist of literature and Marxist Gyoergy Lukacs (1885-1971)...

Notebook 089 is a result of the immense changes that have taken place in the world since 1989. With the end of the Cold War, the utopian neoliberal...

According to Roy Wagner''s anthropological approach, the unspoken, the unheard, and the unknown are just as important as what is there. The absence...

Poet, aesthete and hedonist, Baudelaire was also one of the most groundbreaking art critics of his time. Here he explores beauty, fashion, dandyism...

William Lim discovered his love for art at an early age. A decade ago he began collecting systematically, concentrating on works by emerging contem...

In this notebook, artist Francesco Matarrese undertakes a new reading of two Modernist texts: In an extreme encounter he contrasts Recentness of...

In his contribution, philosopher Éric Alliez visually translates his planned book on diagrammatic thought and its implications for the field of con...

How does one act in the midst of a revolution? With the key question, What shall I do? the author unravels a chain of thoughts in which she quest...

How can it be that the Artistic Director of the dOCUMENTA (13) can talk about a certain kind of obsolescence of the exhibition ? Dorothea von Hant...

Issa Samb (*1945) is a Senegalese sculptor, painter, actor, philosopher, performance artist, author, critic, and co-founder of the interdisciplinar...

Departing from the curatorial structure of dOCUMENTA (13) and its four states of being-under siege, on stage, on retreat, and in a state of hope-Iw...

In his notebook, philosopher Pascal Rousseau uses the medium of hypnosis and an account of its followers to draw a line from the fin de siecle to t...