Enthusiasm

‘No other type of cinema in recent decades has worshipped reality in this intense manner’

‘It has created a space of inclusion in a patriarchal art scene in which the visibility of female practitioners was minimal’

‘Even with the softest breeze, it comes alive and gently plays with the world around’

‘Inside the cemetery, hundreds of names descend in chronological order, but time’s forward motion clearly does not signify progress here’

‘The way she stumbled on stage, with her smeared lips and perfect legs, appeared at once criminally affected and wildly persuasive’

‘Every two minutes, people upload more images to the internet than existed in total just 150 years ago’

‘In this false universe of positive gloss and shallow passions, where can a real enthusiasm be located?’

‘I stayed first for an hour, then whole afternoons and, eventually, days’

‘Here, the body becomes a ghostly mark in time, a blurring, a phantasm’

‘What triggered the initiation of the Association of Musical Marxists?’

‘The wide range of artists presented in this astonishing show was a provocation that will fuel many young curators and scholars in the coming years’

‘I don’t know how a poet becomes a poet. And I don’t think anyone else does either’

‘Piper reminds me that I must remain committed to both my language and actions’

With new work on view at Tanya Bonakdar, New York, a look back at the artist’s iconic Venice pavilion

‘The salient factor wasn’t ever its printedness; Dot Dot Dot just took its own form seriously to think about things we see and how’

‘In our current catastrophic political climate, we need Fisher more than ever before’

‘Contemporary art institutions should stop looking to museums or theatres as role models and, instead, learn from nightclubs’

‘Nelson is wilful and demanding, forever frustrated by the gap between expression and vision, as are all great artists’

‘Who’s Afraid of Barney Newman (1968) invokes a multiplicity of diasporic readings’

‘The contemporary global economy is based on flows and conversions of energy into information into capital’