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‘Burlington Contemporary’ is a free, online platform for new writing and research on contemporary art, founded and run by @BurlingtonMag. contemporary.burlington.org.uk

‘Taking its name from the influential American “Radical Software”, the exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of digital art to adopt a feminist perspective’. Marilena Borriello reviews ‘Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991’ @mudamlux contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/review…

‘Often structured using musical refrains, his vignettes variously elicit shock, disgust, suspense and nervous or sardonic laughter.’ Maria Walsh reviews Diego Marcon’s new film ‘La Gola’ (2024), currently installed at @KunsthalleWien Read for free at contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/review…

‘It is as though the artist is demonstrably avoiding our current era, in search of another’. For our final publication of 2024, Chris McCormack reviews Louis Fratino’s solo exhibition ‘Satura’ @CentroPecci contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/review…

This week, we publish ‘Waiting for Pope.L’ by @LegacyRussell, an excerpt from ‘Pope.L: Hospital’ published by @SLG_artupdates and @distanzverlag. The book documents the artist’s last solo exhibition before his death in December 2023. contemporary.burlington.org.uk/articles/artic…

Hamad Butt’s work ‘aims to defamiliarise, to make us not feel at home, neither in our own house nor in this increasingly broken world’. @TheoGordon1 reviews the artist’s first retrospective, ‘Apprehensions’ @IMMAIreland contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/review…

‘Burlington Contemporary Journal’ publishes pioneering research on art made after 1960. Issue 11 is now live and free to read, featuring five peer-reviewed articles and an artist commission by Juno Calypso. Read for free: contemporary.burlington.org.uk/journal/journa…

Issue 11 of ‘Burlington Contemporary Journal’ will launch on Friday 29th November. More details coming soon. ⁠ contemporary.burlington.org.uk/journal?utm_so…

Michael Kurtz reviews the exhibition ‘Bneid Al Gar’ by Alia Farid, winner of the 2023 Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award, at @HenieOnstad.

‘How can viewers engage with the project’s attempt to trace “the ways styles, symbols, rituals, and other social devices coalesce across continent” if the archive is freely dispersed across continents?’ contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/review…

‘Marianne Berenhaut does not sculpt, she assembles’. Maximiliane Leuschner profiles the Belgian artist, whose sixty-year career has been governed by redirections and reinventions. contemporary.burlington.org.uk/articles/artic…

‘With humour and irony, Nicola L.’s women-objects confront the politics of domestic labour, forcing viewers into a perverse relationship that leads them to question their own position in society’. Clelia Rebecchi reviews Nicola L. @CamdenArtCentre contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/review…

Some highlights from @ArtissimaFair: Shuo Hao @GDerouillon, Adéla Janskà @galerieRAnselmi, Belen Uriel @galeriamadragoa and Nevine Mahmoud at Soft Opening

In this week’s interview @amahrose speaks to Simnikiwe Buhlungu about her use of water, where it came from and where it might end up. Buhlungu’s solo exhibition is on view now at @ChisenhaleGal. Read the interview here: contemporary.burlington.org.uk/articles/artic…

‘A pioneer of both video and feminist art, Nil Yalter has championed marginalised voices for the past five decades’. @Eliz_Fullerton profiles the French–Turkish artist, who won a Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at this year’s @la_Biennale. contemporary.burlington.org.uk/articles/artic…

‘Yuan Goang-Ming: Everyday War’ tackles the ‘anxieties of displacement, spectatorship and living in the aftermath of modernity’. Our Editorial Assistant, Yi Ting Lee, reviews Yuan’s solo exhibition, the Taiwan collateral event @la_Biennale. contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/review…

'The publication "An Exorcism: A Photo Romance" by Penny Slinger has been nearly half a century in the making'. Daniel Culpan @danielculpable reviews Slinger's book, published by @fulgurpress to coincide with her recent exhibition @Richard Saltoun. contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/review…

‘The solo exhibition by Silvia Bächli at Centro Botín, Santander – her first in an institution in Spain – is conceived as a musical score’. Read the review of ’Partitura’ @centrobotin by @CatherineDaunt contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/review…

‘“THIS SPACE WILL SHOW YOU YOUR SOUL” is written on the lobby’s wall, with the warning, “YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU SEE”.’ Tom Denman reviews ‘THE SOUL STATION’ by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley @VirtuaTransMyst, commissioned by LAS Art Foundation contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/review…

‘For Ibrahim Mahama, past failures spur creativity in the present’. Gabriella Nugent reviews the artist’s solo exhibition ‘Songs about Roses’ @fruitmarket contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/review…