Contact About Privacy policy Directory. Editorials Features Reviews. July 4, β Review. Novuyo Moyo. It narrates the series of tragedies that follows when the Fanesβthe indigenous people of the Dolomitesβbetray a pact with their animal allies, the marmots.
The Kingdom of Fanes βa national epic that roams across Mediterranean, North Africa, and the Middle Eastβinforms an exhibition that dwells on themes of interspecies relations, communal identity, and collaboration. As a place where people, cultures, and languages meet German, Italian, and to a lesser extent, Ladinβthe language of the Fanesβare used interchangeably , the Dolomite mountains on the border of Italy and Austria provide the ideal backdrop for these reflections.
Beraha picks up the β¦. July 3, β Editorial. The Editors. Once a week I stand in front of a work of art in order to write about it. This exercise, designed to keep my eye in, has certain constraints. The text must be written in the presence of the work, in a single sitting, and without recourse to external resources. Not the least consequence of this workout has been the revelation of my own ignorance when denied access to online dictionaries what is it called again when you scratch marks into oil paint?
But the most relevant here is how difficult it is for any visitor to spend a long time looking at things in exhibition spaces: I am endlessly being told by invigilators to keep moving, to get up from the floor, to stop obstructing the flow. Last week, for instance, I visited another of those group shows dedicated to queering an abstract noun.
The final room contained a standing speaker playing spoken word and music, an incense burner, and a dozen books of theory arranged as if to be read. July 1, β Review. Michael Kurtz. When the Nigerian government confirmed its plan to construct a new capital in the seventies, it was intended to be a glorious symbol of a prosperous independent nation. Over villages were dispossessed of their ancestral lands to make way for the city, where insufficient housing stock later forced many into slums on the outskirts.
