Enthusiasm

‘It was a piece of long-term thinking that put aside political expediency for the future benefit of citizens’

‘If anything can be converted to DNA, then this interview could become a DNA portrait of you’

‘The acid test of anyone’s enthusiasm is just how boring it is’

A Beirut-based organization supporting Syrian filmmakers captures the response of contemporary art to the wars of our time

The inspirational founder of Germany’s Green Party and her untimely death 

‘In this era of social violence and the return of the irrational, has the interhuman sphere become, paradoxically, obsolete?’

‘My sense was that a shift had happened in what is only now called fashion exhibition-making’

‘Chadwick relished combining provocative and problematic materials in order to probe the body and its boundaries’

‘Jones co-opts the male-on-male objectifying gaze of gay erotica and converts it to a female-on-female gaze’

‘It encourages you to ponder its exalted lineage while taking the piss out of you for doing so’

‘By changing oppressive patterns on many levels, the movement has much to say about feminism in the present moment’

‘Each hypnotic frame of No Home Movie lasts just long enough to allow our minds to wander, summoning recollections of domestic spaces’

‘Light was shone into the darkest corners of the continent to reveal the most wonderful traditions, which had been isolated by cold war ideologies and boundaries’

‘Tang’s action took place at a time when performance art was outlawed by the Singaporean authorities’

‘You have taught art within a history that is our own, with a language that is our own’

‘It’s the way he talks about his own death that amazed then and impresses today’

‘It was an architectural death mask of a domestic space and of a century of its inhabitants’

 ‘He is ruthless in pursuit of his vision as any great director must be; his powerful images are indelible’

‘It is Björk’s ambivalence to human relations that makes her liberality so poignant’

‘This is, perhaps, the best ending of any film, ever’