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Courtesy of the Cruising Pavilion

ARCHITECTURE: Cruising Pavilion

The word Cruising usually describes the quest for sexual encounters between homosexual or bi men in public spaces, but it cannot be reduced to neither men nor homos. This sexual practice generally takes place in public sites like parks, toilets, and parking lots, or in dedicated establishments like bathhouses and …

Regina Silveira, (Brazilian, b. 1939), Biscoito arte (Art cookie) [detail], 1976, C-prints (diptych). 74.9 × 99.1 cm, 99.1 × 99.1 cm, 177 × 101 cm overall, Collection of Fernanda Feitosa and Heitor Martins, © Regina Silveira. Courtesy of the artist and Pinacoteca de São Paulo

ART-TRIBUTE:Radical Women,Part II

Amidst the tumult and revolution that characterized the latter half of the 20th Century in Latin America and the USA, women artists …

Akram Zaatari, Letter to A Refusing Pilot (Film still), 2013, © Akram Zaatari, Courtesy the artist, kurimanzutto-Mexico City and Moderna Museet-Stockholm/Malmö

ART CITIES:Malmö-Akram Zaatari

Akram Zaatari has developed an interdisciplinary practice that combines the roles of image-maker, archivist, curator, and critical theorist. He is concerned with …

Feliza Bursztyn, Cama (Bed), 1974, Assemblage with stainless steel scrap, cot, satin sheet, and motor, 110 × 180 × 70 cm, Museo Nacional de Colombia, © Feliza Bursztyn, Photo: Andrés Mauricio López, Courtesy of Museo Nacional de Colombia

ART-TRIBUTE:Radical Women,Part I

Amidst the tumult and revolution that characterized the latter half of the 20th Century in Latin America and the USA, women artists …

Exhibition view: Shilpa Gupta,For, In Your Tounge, I Can Not Fit, 2018, YARAT Contemporary Art Space- Baku, Photo: Fakhriyya Mammadova, Courtesy the artist, YARAT Contemporary Art Space and Edinburgh Art Festival

ART-PRESENTATION: Shilpa Gupta

Shilpa Gupta’s media ranges across manipulated found objects, photography, video, interactive computer-based installation, and performance. The removal of individual identity and the …

Etel Adnan, Untitled, 1965, Folded leporello book, 21.2 x 243.2 cm, Courtesy the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery (Hamburg/Beirut), Photo: Volker Renner-Hamburg

ART CITIES:Bern-Etel Adnan

 Etel Adnan’s career spans several decades and encompasses a wide range of media as it does traditions and locations. Adnan was first …

Laure Prouvost, Swallow me, From Italy to Flander, a tapestry, 2015, Tapestry, 200 x 462 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Nathalie Obadia (Paris / Brussels), carlier | gebauer (Berlin), Lisson Gallery (London / New York)

ART CITIES:Paris-Laure Prouvost

Laure Prouvost’s work adopts the form of independent stories that intersect and answer to each other, in which fiction mixes with reality. …

Left: Petrit Halilaj, RU, installation view, New Museum-New York, 2017, © Dario Lasagni. Right: Petrit Halilaj, Shkrepëtima, 2018, Ink drawing on cover page of the magazine Shkrepëtima

ART CITIES:Bern-Petrit Halilaj

Petrit Halilaj uses his own biography as a point of departure, adopting exhibition processes to alter the course of private and collective …

Heidi Voet, When all the world is a hopeless jumble

ART-PRESENTATION: Play

Kortrijk is a nice little town on the Lys River in south-western Flanders, only 7km from France. Founded by the Romans as …