Dossiers HQ

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Dossiers is a unique platform dedicated to contemporary art, turning must-read articles into audio versions.

HQ stands for headquarters — a global channel featuring 15+ of the finest magazines and newspapers. Designed to deliver curated content, Dossiers acts as a label, recording the stories that shape today’s art world.

Est. 2023 (Paris, FR)

Guest edited by ^●︎ Hans Ulrich Obrist
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September 01, 2024

by Erika Balsom

—︎ frieze

A Rare Journey to Michael Heizer’s Land Work 'City'

On a recent visit to Nevada, Erika Balsom discovered how the artist’s monumental sculpture is a meditation on transience.

13 min

Latest

August 25, 2024

by Martha Kirszenbaum

—︎ CURA.

'Josèfa Ntjam Deconstructs Dominant Narratives on Identity and Race'

"Her influences unfold from afro-feminism to science-fiction novels, from Sun Ra to Detroit techno."

10 min

August 11, 2024

by Travis Diehl

—︎ Spike

On Art After Risk

In an era of doxxing and cancellation, nobody wants to be the culture war’s next lightning rod. But if art’s new survivalism can be frustrating, it should also prompt us to ask who art is really for.

17 min

July 28, 2024

by Rachel Spence

—︎ Financial Times

Forensic Architecture’s Investigations Are Both Art and Evidence

Founded by Eyal Weizman, it has produced reports into the shooting of a Black man in London and alleged human rights violations in Gaza.

9 min

The New York Times

by Thomas Rogers
July 14, 2024

—︎ The New York Times

Jesse Darling Won the Turner Prize. But Does He Still Want to Be an Artist?

Jesse Darling is so disillusioned with the art world that he just isn’t sure.

12 min

Flash Art

by Whitney Mallett
July 07, 2024

—︎ Flash Art

Diamond Stingily: Everybody Is Bronze

"We’re all going to die, so you might as well get over that shy shit." Stingily tells the truth, and she’s funny.

13 min

PURPLE

by Olivier Zahm
June 02, 2024

—︎ PURPLE

'All Clothing Is a Protector'
A Conversation with Bárbara Sánchez-Kane

Enfant terrible of the Mexico City art scene, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane blurs the line between art and fashion.

17 min

frieze

by Vanessa Peterson
May 05, 2024

—︎ frieze

The Disenchanting World of John Akomfrah

We discuss the challenges of representing the UK at the Venice Biennale with the artist in his north London studio.

17 min

ArtReview

by ArtReview
December 31, 2023

—︎ ArtReview

How Power Players Have Shaped the Artworld in 2023

A look at some of the forces that have defined ArtReview’s Power 100 list.

25 min

CURA.

by Ben Broome
December 24, 2023

—︎ CURA.

'Martine Syms Does Not Make Work to Entertain'

"I’m particularly interested in errant strands of popular culture, works that are anomalies within mass media."

13 min

About

Current

—︎ frieze

A Rare Journey to Michael Heizer’s Land Work 'City'

On a recent visit to Nevada, Erika Balsom discovered how the artist’s monumental sculpture is a meditation on transience.

Latest

—︎ CURA.

'Josèfa Ntjam Deconstructs Dominant Narratives on Identity and Race'

"Her influences unfold from afro-feminism to science-fiction novels, from Sun Ra to Detroit techno."

—︎ Spike

On Art After Risk

In an era of doxxing and cancellation, nobody wants to be the culture war’s next lightning rod. But if art’s new survivalism can be frustrating, it should also prompt us to ask who art is really for.

—︎ Financial Times

Forensic Architecture’s Investigations Are Both Art and Evidence

Founded by Eyal Weizman, it has produced reports into the shooting of a Black man in London and alleged human rights violations in Gaza.

Previous

—︎ The New York Times

Jesse Darling Won the Turner Prize. But Does He Still Want to Be an Artist?

Jesse Darling is so disillusioned with the art world that he just isn’t sure.

—︎ Flash Art

Diamond Stingily: Everybody Is Bronze

"We’re all going to die, so you might as well get over that shy shit." Stingily tells the truth, and she’s funny.

—︎ PURPLE

'All Clothing Is a Protector'A Conversation with Bárbara Sánchez-Kane

Enfant terrible of the Mexico City art scene, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane blurs the line between art and fashion.

—︎ frieze

The Disenchanting World of John Akomfrah

We discuss the challenges of representing the UK at the Venice Biennale with the artist in his north London studio.

—︎ ArtReview

How Power Players Have Shaped the Artworld in 2023

A look at some of the forces that have defined ArtReview’s Power 100 list.

—︎ CURA.

'Martine Syms Does Not Make Work to Entertain'

"I’m particularly interested in errant strands of popular culture, works that are anomalies within mass media."

—︎ T: The New York Times Style Magazine

The Gallery That Has Never Lost an Artist

Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers built one of the art world’s most powerful businesses by not following conventional wisdom.

—︎ KALEIDOSCOPE

Isa Genzken, Minor Speculations

"Isa Genzken is a consciously enigmatic figure, and just as her work cannot be contained within one style, her identity is likewise unfixed."

—︎ Document

Sumayya Vally and Alvaro Barrington in Conversation ●︎HUO

For Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, the architect and artist assess the importance of embracing historical nuance to fabricate new futures.

—︎ ArtReview

Notes on the Control of Society Through Art and Culture

The rhetoric of "sensibility" plays a central if understated role in preserving ruling-class hegemony in art.

—︎ Flash Art

Parabolical Apocalypses.A Conversation with Precious Okoyomon

"Okoyomon’s trajectory feels revelatory amid the culmination of theoretical threads that interrogate endings, afterlives, and becomings."

—︎ frieze

Ali Cherri Challenges the Western Gaze

The artist’s sculptural installations and films sit at the heart of a debate about Eurocentrism in the arts.

—︎ Document

For Joan Jonas, Everything Is Ongoing

The artist joins curator Daisy Desrosiers for Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, revisiting her metamorphic archive of performance.

—︎ Flash Art

Falling Back Into the Future of Old: Frieze London 2023

"Anybody who’s anybody, and thus someone you probably want to be if you want to be in the art world, shows up on Wednesday and Thursday, and has already wearied and abandoned the sinking ship by Friday."

—︎ KALEIDOSCOPE

(LA)HORDE, Breaking From Fantasy

At the Ballet National de Marseille, collective (LA)HORDE are re-energizing the classical forms of the institution with what they’ve termed "post-internet dance."

—︎ ArtReview

We Can’t Get Enough of Mike Kelley

More than a decade after his death, the artist continues to unsettle, judge, mock and disappoint.

—︎ frieze

Rirkrit Tiravanija Doesn’t Want to Be the Centre of Attention

A closer look at the transgressive artist who brought cooking into the gallery.

—︎ T: The New York Times Style Magazine

How Chelsea Became the Unlikely Center of the Art World

The art business took over a neighborhood on the Far West Side of Manhattan previously known as Gasoline Alley. Then the city turned the area into a "monument to real estate developers."

—︎ Financial Times

Ed Ruscha, From Explosive Breakthrough to Fizzling Despair

A retrospective at MoMA tracks the artist’s use of egg yolk, baked beans and blood before he painted himself into a box.

—︎ frieze

Grace Wales Bonner on the Art That Influences Her ●︎HUO

The British designer discusses the importance of sculpture, sound and archives to her practice.

—︎ The New York Times

Nairy Baghramian Breaks Through, Taking the Walls Down With Her

With powerfully alive new works at the Met and MoMA, the Iranian-born artist Nairy Baghramian embraces the canon, the better to take it apart.

—︎ KALEIDOSCOPE

'All Clothing Is a Protector'
A Conversation with Bárbara Sánchez-Kane

Sumayya Vally and Alvaro Barrington in Conversation ^{^●︎HUO}

Parabolical Apocalypses.
A Conversation with Precious Okoyomon

Grace Wales Bonner on the Art That Influences Her ^{^●︎HUO}

General Idea: Cultural Criminals.
A Conversation with AA Bronson

Gabriel Massan: The Brazilian Artist Using Gaming as a Tool for Decolonial Storytelling ^{^●︎HUO}

Tomás Saraceno and Hans Ulrich Obrist in Conversation ^{^●︎HUO}

Inside the Colourful World of Gaetano Pesce ^{^●︎HUO}