Zander Leissle
@alexanderleissle.bsky.social
digital editor @artreview.bsky.social / https://alexanderleissle.blog/contact
Wrote for @artreview.bsky.social about Yuko Mohri’s new exhibition at the Barbican, the best statement on the UK going rn artreview.com/yuko-mohri-i...
Yuko Mohri: How to Love Broken Things
The Japanese artist’s symphony of decomposing matter and broken things offers a poetic reflection on the disjointed state of modern life
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wrote about apes, blockchains, protocols and music for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/the-blockcha...
The Blockchain Fantasy is Dying
SoundCloud’s recently announced acquisition of NFT music platform Nina Protocol sounds the death knell for the illusion of tech’s utopianism in the arts
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For our very much procrastinated spring clean, ArtReview is giving away back issues of ArtReview and ArtReview Asia – all for free. Come on down to the ArtReview office next Friday to get your copies. Friday 17 July 12-5pm 1-5 Honduras Street, London, EC1Y 0TH
Olga, no ! Helen Charman writing on Tokarczuk’s trouble in @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/why-olga-tok...
Why Olga Tokarczuk Is Wrong About AI
The Nobel Laureate’s recent comments on her use of AI in ‘preliminary research’ have hit a nerve – and rightly so
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In the seventh episode of the ArtReview Podcast, artist and photographer Zineb Sedira speaks to ArtReview digital editor Alexander Leissle about Algerian cinema, the Scopitone and her new Tate Britain Commission, open until 17 January 2027 in London. artreview.com/artreview-po...
ArtReview Podcast | Episode 7: Zineb Sedira
For episode six of the ArtReview Podcast, artist Hyeree Ro speaks to ArtReview associate editor Jenny Wu
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Museums are in crisis. To find out where we might go from here, ArtReview asked several professionals close to institutions for a diagnosis artreview.com/the-museum-i...
The Museum in Crisis
To find out where we might go from here, ArtReview asked several professionals close to institutions for a diagnosis
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Richard Phoenix in the latest issue of ArtReview on the supported studio artreview.com/what-can-we-...
What Can We Learn From the Supported Studio?
Turner Prize-winning artist Nnena Kalu makes her work in a supported studio. What kind of artworld might emerge from such setups?
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In which I look ahead to this year’s venice biennale, and some of the political stakes at play, for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/what-can-we-...
What Can We Expect at the 2026 Venice Biennale?
Unpacking some of the geopolitical stakes at play this year
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"films from C20, struck by the richness, even wackiness of the dialogue, fast-talking screwball heroines of 30s, delightful camp of 80s action capers. Now our presiding aesthetic is laconic world-weariness set against thumping techno+droning ambience. Dialogue is over." artreview.com/dialogue-is-...
Dialogue Is Over
The year in film: 2025 was the year of the social-politics drama. Did any of them have much to say?
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They just published my Year in Religion: popes, wars and walk through São Paulo before Christmas. The title is a shoutout to any fellow Fosseheads. artreview.com/a-continuous...
A Continuous Prayer
The year in religion: What, in 2025, was contemporary art’s relationship to a world of changing – and radicalising – spiritual cultures?
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wrote about ‘The Year in Mental Health’ @artreview.bsky.social “If there now seems to be a broad cultural consensus that everybody hurts, that everybody ‘has’ mental health – even men! – there is little agreement on where the misery comes from or how to make it stop.” artreview.com/rub-it-bette...
Rub It Better ‘Til It Bleeds
The Year in Mental Health: From the datafication of therapy to the ‘crisis’ of overdiagnosis, it seemed everyone in 2025 was doing just fine
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by avoiding his books, i'd imagine www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Stephen Fry launches campaign to boost reading for pleasure
The Hay festival president is asking readers for book recommendations that will ‘entice the most reluctant reader’ to help combat the decline in leisure reading
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@artreview.bsky.social's 2025 lookbacks have been excellent (more to come). No listicle slop: Amber Hussein on the Year in Eating, @martinherbert.bsky.social on AI, Rebecca Liu on the death of dialogue in film. Great commissioning from @alexanderleissle.bsky.social. artreview.com/category/the...
The Year in Review
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On Beirut in @artreview.bsky.social, a story similar to Baghdad's, where development hardly meets resistance, serving the butchers-cum-elites to enforce amnesia, exorcise the ghost Saddam Hussein, and erect a city over a city in their own name, murdering histories. artreview.com/restorative-...
‘Restorative Justice’: Beirut’s Struggle with Truth
Heritage in Lebanon is not just about aesthetics; it is about truth
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For @thequietus.com I reviewed JJJJJerome Ellis’s latest, album of the year candidate imo thequietus.com/quietus-revi...
JJJJJerome Ellis – Vesper Sparrow | The Quietus
Tidewater, Virgina-born artist and 'proud stutterer' returns with an album built on backwards violins, granular synthesis, fluttering sax and quiet transcendence
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The Tidewater, Virgina-born artist and 'proud stutterer' returns with an album built on backwards violins, granular synthesis, fluttering sax and quiet transcendence JJJJJerome Ellis - Vesper Sparrow buff.ly/ek4YqBZ
A gorgeous new poem by Ralf Webb is out now: ‘Girls, I thought, understand / The attitudes of animals in motion. / Girls could reveal the nature of happy horses’ artreview.com/two-horses-a...
‘Two Horses’: A Poem by Ralf Webb
‘Girls, I thought, understand / The attitudes of animals in motion. / Girls could reveal the nature of happy horses’
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is AI *actually* the aesthetic of fascism? I think a lot of the discourse has gotten it wrong, and I explained why in my latest for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/the-fascinat...
The ‘Fascinating Fascism’ of AI
The US government’s anniversary AI project tells us nothing about American history and everything about today’s America
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The state of art criticism today resembles a crisis of freedom, where one reality has been rejected but another has yet to be conceived artreview.com/notes-from-n...
Notes from New York: Art Critics and Gangster Capitalism
The state of art criticism today resembles a crisis of freedom, when one reality has been rejected but another has yet to be conceived
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"What isn't at the V&A?" — new from me in @artreview.bsky.social on enduring colonialism, art-washing working class heritage, and a museum without labels artreview.com/what-isnt-at...
What Isn’t at the V&A Storehouse
You can’t escape it: this is the same colonial museum we know, in a shiny new suit
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the internet is for lying! artreview.com/why-do-we-ha...
Why Do We Have to Be Ourselves Online?
Age verification and data collection require there be no slippage between who governments think we are and who we want ourselves to be – which was the whole point of the internet in the first place
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For @artreview.bsky.social I reviewed 'Unsettled Earth', an exhibition countering the razing of Palestinian land and erasure of its history. It strikes me that art, while incapable of much else here, can re-introduce the full emotionality of a people and their homeland artreview.com/unsettled-ea...
‘Unsettled Earth’: The Artists Resisting Palestinian Erasure
A new group show and study programme at Berlin’s Spore Initiative reconnects the Palestinian story to the land: how it is experienced, remembered, worked, violated
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i wrote about john donne, cronenberg's The Shrouds, and the location of love for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/david-cronen...
David Cronenberg: Grieving in the Digital Age
In his latest film ‘The Shrouds’, characters can livestream their loved ones rotting in the grave. Is this a new monumentalism?
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ArtReview Asia Summer 2025 is out now – featuring Shilpa Gupta, Shimabuku, Bachtiar Siagian; commentary on China’s zombie museums, and legacies of the Black Panther Movement; and much more artreview.com/artreview-as...
ArtReview Asia Summer 2025 Issue Out Now
Featuring Shilpa Gupta, Shimabuku, Bachtiar Siagian; commentary on China’s zombie museums, and legacies of the Black Panther Movement; and much more
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Join Rosanna McLaughlin and Fi Churchman at the ArtReview Bar on 25 June as they discuss McLaughlin’s new book, ‘Against Morality’. RSVP essential to rsvp@artreview.com
