ArtReview #169 - Critique

ArtReview #169 November 2024 - Critique 

The November issue of ArtReview puts the ‘review’ under scrutiny: How do we decide what to review? Can anything be reviewed? Is it possible to exhaust the review format? And why are we so obsessed with reading reviews? Four writers from around the world explore these questions via reviews that variously include rodeos, funeral homes, repeat visits to the same exhibition and everything reviewed within a one-kilometer radius. German artist Hans Haacke, champion of institutional critique and featured on this issue’s cover (with an intervention by the Wendy comics artist Walter Scott), is interviewed by Liam Gillick; Nate Budzinski asks why exhibitions about art and witchcraft are so popular; JJ Charlesworth questions whether populist art is really for the people or just for the artworld; and Dorrell Merrit considers the enduring format of the photographic tableau. Plus exhibition and book reviews from around the world.

About ArtReview:

Founded in 1949, ArtReview is one of the world’s leading international contemporary art magazines, dedicated to expanding contemporary art’s audience and reach, and tracing the ways it interacts with culture in general. Aimed at both a specialist and a general audience, the magazine and its sister publications, ArtReview Asia (launched in 2013) and a quarterly Chinese edition of ArtReview (published in partnership with Yishu Shijie and launched in 2022), feature a mixture of criticism, reviews, commentary and analysis alongside commissioned artist projects, guides and special supplements.