Express conversation with Roy Brand, curator of the extensive exhibition of Israeli contemporary art on view from 3 December 2018 at the Moscow Triumf Gallery

10/12/2018

"I think a great revolution is almost impossible at this moment. The structures in place are so strong that we have almost lost our ability to imagine an alternative. We also know from the past that those revolutions are violent and destructive. So we've lost the appetite for great change." Read more...

A conversation in Vilnius with the designer of the new MO museum of contemporary art 

05/12/2018

‘Order and disorder ‒ these are two potential threats. The world is constantly threatened by too much and too little order. Architecture finds its place in the world somewhere between the two,’ says Daniel Libeskind, a short-statured man with grey hair, a frequent smile and glasses, perpetually dressed in black. He stays true to his habits here in Vilnius where he has arrived for the unveiling of the MO museum of contemporary art. Read more...

An express interview with Estonian artist Marko Mäetamm about his recent project One Month in Canada

03/12/2018

In 1978, Marko Mäetamm’s father went to Toronto to meet his own father. They hadn’t met since 1944, when Marko’s grandfather left his homeland of Estonia because of the ominous political situation. Forty years after this meeting, Marko Mäetamm has collected his memories of the past in a project titled One Month in Canada. The exhibition is on view at the Tallinn Art Hall until February 3, 2019. Read more...

An interview with Sam Keller, the director of the Fondation Beyeler

29/11/2018

Keller has a sharp mind, lots of charm, a showman’s talent and abundant charisma. During our conversation, which lasts about an hour, he smokes five cigarettes and the smile never vanishes from his face. We talk about what the museum as an institution can learn from nature and the laws that govern it, about the role of museums in the 21st century, and about why it was so important at precisely this moment for the Fondation Beyeler to organise an exhibition of work by controversial Polish-French artist Balthus (1908–2001). Read more...