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Spike #61 – Escape

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ARTIST'S FAVOURITES
By Karl Holmqvist

CURATOR'S KEY
Anna Gritz on Maria Nordman's Room with two doors ( for a public park in Bochum-Weitmar) (1982/1989)

EXHIBITION HISTORIES
Fei Lai 
on “Persistent Deviation/ Corruptionists” (1998) at 10 North 3rd Ring Road, Bldg #3, Basement Floor Beijing

ONE WORK
Dean Kissick 
on Jeremy Shaw's Liminals (2017)

CONVERSATION
A panel at Liste Basel with Jenny Borland of Jenny's, Alexander Shulan of Lomex, Simon Wang of Antenna Space, KJ Freeman of Housing, and Nathaniel Monjaret of Bonny Poon. 

Q/A FABRICE STROUN
Is escapism the death of art?

ESSAY: EXITS
Some people want to escape into the art world, others want to escape from it. Art offers a refuge from the world as well as a way of engaging with it – politically, socially, aesthetically, philosophically. The challenge is to find a way to escape without escapism. By João Ribas

IMAGE CONTRIBUTIONS
By Agnieszka Polska, Eoghan Ryan, Gene Beery, McDermott & McGough, and Sophie Thun

Q/A RINDON JOHNSON
What lies beyond the art market? 


PORTRAIT: LOST AND FOUND Francesco Bonami on Maurizio Cattelan

PORTRAIT: DEPARTURES Nancy Princenthal on Agnes Martin

PORTRAIT: THE (FAILED) AUTONOMY OF THE ARTIST Discussion with Omsk Social Club and Ed Fornieles at Liste Basel.

PORTRAIT: I HAVE ALWAYS WISHED FOR NOVEMBER Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Friederike Mayröcker

MUSIC: The Apocalyptic Sublime Lil Internet on Blanck Mass's new album, Animated Mild Violence 

FILM Harry Burke on Barbara McCullough's Shopping Bag Spirits and Freeway Fetishes: Reflections on Ritual Space, 1981

FASHION Fashion has built a trap for itself. The most contemporary medium may still pride itself on being ahead of the curve, but it has fallen prey to a totalised corporate capitalist realism that is closing the door on a new generation. Where will it go with its need to rebel and experiment? By Jeppe Ugelvig

Q/A AUBREY DE GREY Will we ever escape mortality? 

MARKET Biennials are out, freeports are in. The one percent loves storage solutions that allow them to squirrel away art without the burden of taxation. The best artworks are coming soon to a freeport near you, but you won't be allowed to see them unless you can wheel and deal or pay to play. By Kenny Schachter

Q/A MAX CZOLLEK Is migration the only really successful revolution?

OPERA Paul Feigelfeld on Mozart's Idomeneo at the Salzburg Festival

POSTCARD FROM FIRE ISLAND Masc4Masc Musical

SEDUCTION By Victoria Campbell, Katja Novitskova, Alexandra Germer, Julian-Jakob Kneer, and Alexander Koch

VIEWS BERLIN “Image Bank” at KW Institute for Contemporary Art by Mitch Speed. Interview with Yael Bartana at Capitain Petzel by Chloe Stead. “Atonal” at Kraftwerk Berlin by Laurie Rojas

VIEWS MUNICH Senga Nengudi at Lenbachhaus by Dorothea Zwirner. Miriam Cahn at Haus der Kunst by Dorothea Stöppel. 

VIEWS VIENNA “The Vienna Biennale for Change 2019: Brave New Virtues, Shaping our Digital World” at various locations by Mohammad Salemy. Perel at ImPulsTanz Vienna by Victoria Dejaco. Nora Schultz at Secession by Benjamin Hirte

VIEWS SALZBURG Omer Fast at Salzburger Kunstverein by Klaus Speidel. Roy Lichtenstein at Galerie Thaddeus Ropac by Klaus Speidel.

VIEWS METZ/BASEL Rebecca Horn at Centre Pompidou-Metz & Museum Tinguely, Basel by Ingrid Luquet-Gad

VIEWS GLARUS Bea Schlingelhoff at Off Kunsthaus Glarus at Museum des Landes Glarus, Freuerpalast by Julia Moritz

VIEWS COPENHAGEN Pipilotti Rist at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art by Cecilie Høgsbro Østergaard

VIEWS MADRID Henrik Olesen at Museo Reina Sofía by Cory Cordova

VIEWS LONDON Lee Krasner at Barbican Art Gallery by Oliver Basciano

VIEWS NEW YORK “Apollo's Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Victoria Campbell. Devin Kenny at MoMA PS1 by Victoria Campbell. 

VIEWS LOS ANGELES “Avengers: Someone Left the Cake Out In the Rain” at Gaga & Reena Spaulings Fine Art by Grace Hadland

VIEWS AMMAN “Stars are Closer, and Clouds are Nutritious Under Golden Trees” at MMAG Foundation by Federica Bueti

VIEWS BAKU Zadie Xa at YARAT Contemporary Art Centre by Ella Plevin

THE END IS NIGHT Escape Guilt by Alison M. Gingeras and Jamieson Webster
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