This is quite an event: twin exhibitions of paintings by Markus Lüpertz, one of the giants of late-20th-century European art, taking place at The Phillips Collection and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. This first collaboration between these two jewels in Washington, D.C.'s cultural crown, Markus Lüpertz (at The Phillips until 3...

For the first time in its long history, the mega exhibition of documenta—which takes place only every five years—is split across two cities: its usual host city of Kassel, Germany (10 June–17 September 2017) and Athens, Greece (8 April–16 July 2017). Discussing this split and documenta 14's title, Learning from Athens, in a recent...

In places where funding for the arts is limited, if not practically non-existent, people are pushed to find alternative ways to make, curate, and invent survival strategies to keep going. Very often, these 'practices of survival' come with the burdens of emotional and physical exploitations as result of unpaid labour, over-performance, anxieties,...

A 17-metre-long boat made of rattan, beeswax and string hangs in the Singapore Pavilion in the Sale d'Armi building at the Arsenale for the 57th Venice Biennale (13 May–26 November 2017). The ship is the centerpiece of Dapunta Hyang: Transmission of Knowledge, a presentation by multidisciplinary artist Zai Kuning—his fifth such boat and his...