Klaus Speidel

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Intellectual Disability in the Age of AI, a Prophecy

How will our lives be when AI rules the world? Back to Back Theatre’s new play at the Wiener Festwochen provides a theory.

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Annalise van Even in  Echoic Choir  (2021). Photo: Paris Tsitsos

Annalise van Even in Echoic Choir (2021). Photo: Paris Tsitsos

Dancing With Death

This year's Wiener Festwochen gets all up in your business. Read Klaus Speidel's review, originally published in Spike #69 – STORYTELLING.

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Andy Warhol at Mumok, Hervé Guibert at Felix Gaudlitz, Lewis Stein at Vin Vin

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Installation view "Josef Bauer. Demonstration" LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz, 2020 Foto: maschekS.

Installation view “Josef Bauer. Demonstration”, Photo: maschekS

“Josef Bauer. Demonstration” at LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz

By Klaus Speidel

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#65

it can be said of them , 1969 Screenprint on paper, 305 x 584 mm

Corita Kent, it can be said of them, 1969 Screenprint on paper, 305 x 584 mm

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Corita Kent at Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol

In the roundtable in this issue, artist John Hill notes that if 2010 seemed like a time of abundance, 2019 feels like a time of scarcity. The 10s was a decade in which the bottom fell out of politics, and the art system lost its credibility. The wealthy got wealthier and disproved trickle-down economics. Communicating did not just mean...

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"Alfred Schmeller: The Museum as a Source of Unrest" at mumok by Klaus Speidel. "Time is Thirsty" at Kunsthalle Wien by Victoria Dejaco. Anne Speier at Galerie Meyer Kainer by Maximilian Geymüller

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Really Useful Knowledge (Brook Andrew), Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2014 Photo: Joaquín Cortés & Román Lores / M.N.C.A.R.S

Really Useful Knowledge (Brook Andrew), Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2014

Photo: Joaquín Cortés & Román Lores / M.N.C.A.R.S

Interview: Collective WHW on their appointment as directors of Kunsthalle Wien

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Jean-Michel Basquiat at Area, New York (1994)

Jean-Michel Basquiat at Area, New York (1994)

Jean-Michel Basquiat in der Schirn

Von Klaus Speidel

Brands such as Y/Project, Telfar and Vetements have found new ways to pick up where the designers of the 90s left off. Aided by strategies borrowed from art, they are transforming the fashion system from within and widening its boundaries beyond recognition. Fashion is succeeding precisely where art is not, wresting autonomy out of...

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Jean-Michel Basquiat at Schirn, Rubens at Städel Museum and "I am here to learn" at Frankfurter Kunstverein by Klaus Speidel

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#53

Reality can’t be trusted. apparently we are living in a simulation, everybody is talking about posttruth, and “Real food” is an advertising pitch. But reality hasn't disappeared, it's just infused with fiction. By Klaus Speidel

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Dana Schutz,  Open Casket  (2016), Oil on canvas, Collection of the artist; courtesy Petzel, New York.

Dana Schutz, Open Casket (2016), Oil on canvas, 99 x 135 cm; Collection of the artist; courtesy Petzel, New York.

Klaus Speidel

Intellectual Disability in the Age of AI, a Prophecy

Dancing With Death

VIEWS VIENNA

“Josef Bauer. Demonstration” at LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz

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#62 Winter 2020

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Interview: Collective WHW on their appointment as directors of Kunsthalle Wien

Jean-Michel Basquiat in der Schirn

#55 Spring 2018

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Dana Schutz’s “Open Casket”: A Controversy around a Painting as a Symptom of an Art World Malady

#75 The Museum Issue