Dossiers HQ

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

HQ stands for headquarters — a global channel featuring 15+ of the finest magazines and newspapers. Designed to curate meaningful 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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Current

April 28, 2024

by Vanessa Peterson

—︎ 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

Latest

December 31, 2023

by ArtReview

—︎ 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

December 24, 2023

by Ben Broome

—︎ CURA.

'Martine Syms Does Not Make Work to Entertain'

"Her exhibitions function as an invitation and sometimes an ultimatum for the viewer to step inside or be left behind."

13 min

December 17, 2023

by Evan Moffitt

—︎ 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.

21 min

KALEIDOSCOPE

by Kyla McDonald
December 10, 2023

—︎ KALEIDOSCOPE

Isa Genzken, Minor Speculations

For her retrospective exhibition at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, Isa Genzken has presented 75 sculptural assemblages from across her career to celebrate her 75th birthday. On this occasion, we sorted through her archive of invitations cards — historical documents which double as allegories of communication and traces of an unfixed identity.

15 min

Document

by Elizabeth Hsieh
December 03, 2023

—︎ 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.

15 min

ArtReview

by Mitch Speed
November 26, 2023

—︎ 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.

17 min

Flash Art

by Jazmina Figueroa
November 19, 2023

—︎ Flash Art

Parabolical Apocalypses.
A Conversation With Precious Okoyomon

Okoyomon’s work is situated in all that survives at the periphery of the apocalypse.

20 min

frieze

by Wilson Tarbox
November 12, 2023

—︎ 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.

16 min

Document

by Tia Glista
November 05, 2023

—︎ 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.

19 min

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Current

—︎ 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.

Latest

—︎ 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'

"Her exhibitions function as an invitation and sometimes an ultimatum for the viewer to step inside or be left behind."

—︎ 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.

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—︎ KALEIDOSCOPE

Isa Genzken, Minor Speculations

—︎ 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 work is situated in all that survives at the periphery of the apocalypse.

—︎ 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

"There’s a deep snobbery about which day you come. The well-gatekept Wednesday is for VIPs. Nobody who’s anybody goes to the public days, apparently."

—︎ KALEIDOSCOPE

(LA)HORDE, Breaking From Fantasy

—︎ 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 New York retrospective 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

ART ♥ MERCH

—︎ Flash Art

General Idea: Cultural Criminals.A Conversation With AA Bronson

"We were always involved in provocation. Not activism in the sense that we were providing the answers. It was more like we were trying to get conversational."

—︎ i-D

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

"Third World: The Bottom Dimension," a video game and exhibition by Brazilian artist Gabriel Massan, challenges the neo-colonial biases we hold on to.

—︎ Wallpaper*

Doug Aitken’s Epic Art

"Not knowing is a philosophical position for Aitken, who seems determined to produce one epic all-consuming project after another."

—︎ frieze

Torkwase Dyson’s Collaborative Exchanges With Christina Sharpe

The artist and theorist share their thoughts on their intellectual work of interrogating legacies of slavery and anti-Black violence.

—︎ The New York Times

For Mire Lee, Rising Art Star, It All Comes Down to Guts

The Korean artist’s ingenious machine sculptures, coming to the New Museum, show things that "you don’t actually want to see," a leading curator says.

—︎ Mousse

'Jargon Art Always Knew It Was Partly Bullshit'

"Critics generally fit into one of two groups: village explainers and village complainers. Both presume there’s a village to explain to or complain about. No one wants to be the last one left in the town square." On Jargon (excerpt).

—︎ CULTURED

Tomás Saraceno and Hans Ulrich Obrist in Conversation ●︎HUO

The Argentinian multimedia artist is transforming the Serpentine Galleries for "In Collaboration: Web(s) of Life," his first major exhibition in the U.K.

—︎ Spike

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}

Tourmaline: Black-American Mytho-Cinematic Universe ^{^●︎HUO}

Charles Atlas, Portrait of a Brain ^{^●︎HUO}