Okwui Enwezor
Chinua Achebe
PASSAGES
June 2013
NEWS OF THE DEATH of the great Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, who passed away on March 21 at the age of eighty-two, reached me at my office in Munich through the wildfire of the Internet. By day’s end, that wildfire had spread to precincts… READ ON
IN PRINT Summer 2013 [TOC]
Ai Weiwei and Sharjah Biennial 10
SLANT
June 2011
IN THESE DAYS of the Arab Spring, paradoxically hovering between revolution and repression, there is much hand-wringing in the global art world. Protests and petitions against arrests, dismissals, censorship, and labor rights have erupted, … READ ON
IN PRINT Summer 2011 [TOC]
Okwui Enwezor
December 2010
1 Ernest Cole (Johannesburg Art Gallery; curated by Gunilla Knape) Ever since this artist changed his last name from Kole to Cole to pass as a colored (rather than black) man, thus gaining permission to travel around his native South Africa,… READ ON
IN PRINT December 2010 [TOC]
Gabriel Orozco
April 2010
THE MIDCAREER RETROSPECTIVE can be tricky business. A case in point was “Gabriel Orozco,” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York this past winter, which joined a recent spate of surveys of artists who came to prominence in the 1990s—from… READ ON
IN PRINT April 2010 [TOC]
Okwui Enwezor
December 2009
OKWUI ENWEZOR 1 The inauguration of President Barack Hussein Obama A year ago, my contribution to Artforum’s annual rite of taking stock of the immediate past ended with a wish to see the transformation of candidate Obama… READ ON
IN PRINT December 2009 [TOC]
ON THE COMMONS
October 2009
This month, Harvard University Press unveils Commonwealth, the latest book by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, whose Empire (2000) and Multitude (2004) have, arguably, been the dominant works of political philosophy of the new century. In … READ ON
IN PRINT October 2009 [TOC]
BEST OF 2008
December 2008
Every December, Artforum invites a broad spectrum of artists, critics, and curators to revisit the year in art. In the current issue, thirteen contributors choose their top ten highlights, while six others zero in for close-ups of single … READ ON
IN PRINT December 2008 [TOC]
BEST OF 2007
December 2007
Every December, Artforum invites a broad spectrum of artists, critics, and curators to revisit the year in art. In the current issue, twelve contributors choose their top ten highlights, while seven others zero in for close-ups on single … READ ON
IN PRINT December 2007 [TOC]
BEST OF 2006
December 2006
Every December, we ask leading artists, critics, and curators to remember ten high points of the year. The number-one picks from each of this year’s eleven contributors appear here. To have a look at the rest of the bests, read the full … READ ON
IN PRINT December 2006 [TOC]
Global Tendencies: Globalism and the Large-Scale Exhibition
November 2003
When Francesco Bonami, director of last summer’s Venice Biennale, famously wrote in his exhibition catalogue that “The ‘Grand Show’ of the 21st century must allow multiplicity, diversity and contradiction to exist inside the structure… READ ON