ArtReview November 2025
ArtReview November 2025
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In the November issue of ArtReview, Gaby Cepeda profiles the painter Manuela Solano, whose tender portraits of popstars, glammed-up dinosaurs and aliens present as something like a secular devotion to popular culture. Jessica Lanay examines one of the most encompassing and long-lasting partnerships in American artmaking, that of Senga Nengudi and Maren Hassinger, artists with their own practices as well a joint body of work put together over time and distance. Artists Holly Herndon, Mat Dryhurst, Avery Singer, Jon Rafman and Simon Denny got together to discuss where art might be post-AI, and ArtReview listened in. Zenas Ubere contributes the latest in ArtReview’s ‘Up Close’ series, with a long, close look at Mobolaji Ogunrosoye’s portrait Zara, One Within the Other. And Yuwen Jiang analyses the ways in which Duan Jianyu’s paintings navigate the changing faces of everyday life in China. Plus a Sarah Jilani interview with Saidiya Hartman on what it means to imagine the end of authoritarianism, capitalism and white nationalism, Elias Tamer on Beirut’s struggle with the truth and Joanna Walsh on the obstacles to working at scale. Plus exhibition reviews from around the globe, and the pick of the latest in books.
What's inside the issue?
What's inside the issue?
Art Observed
The Interview - Saidiya Hartman by Sarah Jilani
Going Large by Joanna Walsh
Rebuilding a City by Elias Tamer
Art Featured
Manuela Solano by Gaby Cepeda
Senga Nengudi and Maren Hassinger by Jessica Lanay
Up Close: Mobolaji Ogunrosoye by Zena Ubere
Art after AI by Avery Singer, Simon Denny, Holly Herndon, Mat Dryhurst and Jon Rafman
Duan Jianyu by Yuwen Jiang
The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace annotated by Mark Rappolt
Art Reviewed
Exhibitions
Mark Leckey, by Martin Herbert
Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World, by Michael Caines
Portia Zvavahera, by Louis Bury
Chicago Exhibition Weekend, by Jenny Wu
Coco Fusco, by Marcus Civin
Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki, by Cici Peng
Tesfaye Urgessa, by Sabo Kpade
Grant Mooney, by Alexander Leissle
2a Bienal das Amazônias, by Oliver Basciano
Taring Padi, by Ana Vukadin
Paul Niedermayer, by Alexandra Symons-Sutcli.e
Claire Fontaine, by Alexander Harding
Eleanor Antin, by Sophie Oliver
13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, by Mark Rappolt
Nour Jaouda, by Orit Gat
Julie Béna, by Sonja Teszler
Pablo Bronstein, by J.J. Charlesworth
Cynthia Hawkins, by Mia Stern
Tourmaline, by Rachel M. Tang
Suzanne Treister, by Stewart Home
Kiki Smith, by Madeleine Jacob
Bae Yoon Hwan, by Mark Rappolt
Books
The Wax Child, by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken, reviewed by Anandi Mishra
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It, by Cory Doctorow, reviewed by J.J. Charlesworth
The Silver Book, by Olivia Laing, reviewed by Isabella Gullifer-Laurie
How to Art: Bringing a Fancy Subject Down to Earth so We Can All Enjoy It, by Kate Bryan, reviewed by Mark Rappolt
Blinding: The Left Wing, by Mircea Ca˘rta˘rescu, translated by Sean Cotter, reviewed by Oliver Basciano
Reel Politik, by Nathan Gelgud, reviewed by David Terrien
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