Hannah Black

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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.

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

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Julia Scher Surveillance Bed III , 1994 180 x 240 x 180 cm

Julia Scher
Surveillance Bed III, 1994
180 x 240 x 180 cm

Hiding in Plain Sight

We all know that transparency is no longer a magic formula that automatically leads to greater emancipation. By contrast, in order to win back a piece of humanity and freedom, we will have to become our own censors. In various recent artworks Barbara Casavecchia finds the building blocks for a new culture of silence.

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Speakers at "Finding the Body: The Last Transgression" Hannah Black, Evan Ifekmya, Cadence Kinsey, Patricia McCormack, Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, Guilia Smith

Speakers at "Finding the Body: The Last Transgression"
From left: Evan Ifekmya, Hannah Black, Cadence Kinsey, Patricia MacCormack, Giulia Smith, Hannah Quinlan, Rosie Hastings,

Text Your Body

From strategies of exposure to those of concealment, feminist artists are finding new ways to address the female body as a site of projection, voyeurism, or even dissent. Theorist and educator Maria Walsh attended the “Finding the Body: The Last Transgression?” symposium in London last week, and offers her take on the dialogue between feminisms old and new.

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The End is Night: Are we having the right kind of bad time?

by Hannah Black