ESSAYS
THE ROBOT'S MIXTAPE
The boundary between man and machine became foggy long before the advent of Instagram and Spotify. Your computer is already smarter than you; might it soon have better taste, too? by Deirdre Loughridge
LOUDSPEAKERS
Anri Sala has never turned back from his early training in cinema. But his newest videos reveal an artist who puts more faith in soundtracks than in scripts by Daniel Fairfax
THE SOUTHERN DYNASTY
For the first time in 12 years, Argentina's president is no longer named Kirchner. A postmortem of the art of the “K Era”, and of its vehement debates over freedom of expression by Florencia Malbrán
INTERVIEWS
NEÏL BELOUFA
December 23, 2015, 9:30 a.m., at Le Sarah Bernhardt café, Châtelet, Paris
URSULA VON RYDINGSVARD
January 6, 2016, 11:00 a.m., above a woodworking studio in Bushwick
NEGATIVES
Chantal Akerman's Manhattan
The Louvre goes back to work
Brazil's tax authority as curator
REVIEWS
I. Which scares you more: terrorism or climate change, war or warming? A Louvre exhibition stared down both this unseasonable winter, while
Olafur Eliasson melted all too elegantly by Thomas Chatterton Williams
II. Giorgio Morandi and
Robert Ryman: two paragons of shy-guy painterly seriousness. Form and formlessness in a world fading from beige to white by John Ganz
III. After 1945 Warsaw was rethought, redrawn, and constructed on ruins. The postwar settlement gave shape to today's Poland, where the art is flecked with debris by Karol Sienkiewicz
IV. In just a decade, little Norway has been transformed into an oil-fueled artistic hothouse. Transformed, too, by a refugee crisis that has reached the Arctic circle, and shocked artists into action by Johanne Nordby Wernø
PORTFOLIO
The art of MATHIEU K. ABONNENC: museums and antimalarials
