Enthusiasm

‘Sekula’s sentences have their own nautical rhythm that brings incommensurate scales of experience into sudden relation’

‘I first encountered Lialina’s piece in college and, as the years go by, I continue to return to and obsess over it.’

‘Kanzi is proficient in Yerkish, a keyboard-based language that scientists invented to communicate with great apes’

‘Sometimes, we can’t see what we know’

‘The book reads as a collection of photographs captured by a self-recording camera’

‘George Michael has always told the truth. But I don’t believe that truth. Freedom is invisible. It’s just a line in an ad’

‘Given today’s resurgent far right, Haacke’s exhibition serves as a model for resisting the present’

‘It showed the power of placing something dumb and ugly next to something glorious’

‘His complex works embody both figurative social realism and mystic spiritual abstraction’

‘This poetic work of propaganda helped to bring about a queer communist comradeship that spanned more than 6,000 kilometres’

‘I first saw it in a private screening room in my college library, deep in the suburbs of New England. It changed my life.’

‘Perry brings seemingly disparate fields into alignment with a precision that is brilliant and devastating’

‘In everything she does, Adele’s honesty is at the core of her vision’

‘The exhibition was one of the most formative and memorable things I’ve ever seen’

How artists use junkyard landscapes to forge an escape from materially saturated culture

‘Namatjira’s political leaders all look frozen, dull behind the eyes, whiter than white, and as if battling an internal war with their fakery and greed’

‘By its closing scenes, I felt compelled to stand up and clap’

‘I spend my life as a writer trying (failing) to approximate Oswald’s verbal economy of means’

‘Boom obsesses over every element of design – including the textures and scents of her books, as well as their appearance’

‘What our descendants will make of this object depends on what survives of us’