Jean-Luc Godard Saved My Life

The music of Brazil's far right; Indonesia's deadly serious irony artist; Sofia Mitsola shares her influences |

View this email in your browser Children of Marx and Coca-Cola This week, Juliet Jacques pays tribute to French New Wave pioneer Jean-Luc Godard. His films probed the 'difficulties of living a creative, Communist life in a capitalist world', compelled by the imperative to 'counter vague ideas with sharp images'. Indeed, Jacques writes, 'Godard's sharp images saved my life'. Meanwhile, Tim Abrahams unravels the architectural visions of King Charles, which have led to a country dotted with 'so many Poundland Poundburys'; Sofia Mitsola invites us into her creative space in the latest edition of In the Mood For...; Euan Marshall listens to Bolsonarista agro-EDM; Bianca Winataputri profiles Indonesian artist Agus Suwage; and from the Singapore and Bangkok biennales to the Okayama Art Summit, a guide to autumn exhibitions courtesy of ArtReview Asia. En Liang Khong, Director of Digital Unnecessary Words Juliet Jacques continues to return to Le Mépris, Godard's most mainstream work, which, bolstered by Technicolor cinematography and Georges Delerue's devastating theme, 'was in part about the inability of people to communicate'. read now Monstrous Carbuncles King Charles would very likely prefer to recreate a time before architects, as Tim Abrahams suggests; when master builders built according to strange, impenetrable rules, preserved in strange sects with initiation rites. read now In The Mood For... Sofia Mitsola This week we explore the studio and influences of Sofia Mitsola – currently showing at The Harley Gallery, Nottinghamshire – that encompass Nabokov, a Petrus Christus portrait and sculpturettes collected from Aegean sea dives. read now Noam Chomsky on David Graeber In a wide-ranging discussion, Nika Dubrovsky speaks to Noam Chomsky about pirate societies, 'bewildered herds' and the fragility of the present in the context of the late anthropologist David Graeber's final book. read now Autumn Exhibitions Around the World From biennales in Singapore and Bangkok to Takashi Murakami's kitsch-and-creepy pop UNO cards and outlawed indigenous facial tattoo practices – our editors on shows to see this autumn. read now Agronejo and the Brazilian Far Right In a tense election year, Euan Marshall explores a genre of music – with origins in the organic folk expression of rural Brazil– that has been co-opted by agribusiness and Jair Bolsonaro. read now Deadly Serious Irony Though famed for his self-portraits, Indonesian artist Agus Suwage is also – and perhaps primarily – relating the recent history of his homeland. Bianca Winataputri charts self-representation and societal upheaval in his work. read now Moving Home In partnership with Brent Biennial 2022: For the first of two reflections on the London exhibition, Francis Whorrall-Campbell mines the specific politics of making home both within the borough, and as it relates further afield. read now How Not to Tell a Regional Art History NUSA, an exhibition to mark the reopening of Malaysia's National Art Gallery, seeks to plot the history of Malaysia's modern art – but Lim Sheau Yun finds that clumsy curating seems to undermine itself at each turn. read now Not subscribed yet? Sign up to ArtReview's newsletters © 2022 ArtReview Ltd. All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at www.artreview.com or the previous digital magazine website Our mailing address is: ArtReview Ltd. 1 Honduras Street London, England EC1Y 0TH United Kingdom Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.