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Karimah Ashadu with Toby Kamps

British-Nigerian artist Karimah Ashadu, who lives and works in Hamburg and Lagos, is one of the breakout stars of the 60th Venice Biennale. She received the Silver Lion award given to a promising young participant for her single-channel video Machine Boys (2024), which looks at the lives of okada, or motorcycle taxi drivers in Lagos.

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Miquel Barceló with Jurriaan Benschop

Until the end of June, Miquel Barceló has an exhibition of his ceramic works at La Pedrera, the signature building of Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona. On the occasion, the Rail spoke with the artist, who, since his appearance in the 1970s, has been working in diverse media such as sculpture, painting, printmaking, and ceramics.

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Antony Gormley with Amanda Gluibizzi

Antony Gormley’s Aerial is unlike anything the artist has installed in this country and indeed does not have many direct precedents in his earlier practice. Aerial takes the form of a complex grid that derives its coordinates from the gallery that houses it, and while it completely fills the space, it is not a solid cube that we can only walk around; instead, Aerial is penetrable, both visually and physically.

Art In Conversation

Hugo McCloud with Charles M. Schultz

Hugo McCloud likes to work with his hands. He’s a builder who thinks about making sculptures the way certain philosophers think about knowledge, as a process. There is no absolute, no certainty; the way the material transforms guides his approach to working with it.

Art In Conversation

Richard Armstrong with Joachim Pissarro & Jennifer Stockman

Richard Armstrong joined Guggenheim President Emeritus Jennifer Stockman and Rail Consulting Editor Joachim Pissarro to discuss the parallels of politics, religion, and art; the joys and challenges of spearheading one of New York’s most storied cultural institutions; and the importance of keeping the art—and the artists—close.

From the Publisher & Artistic Director

Dear Friends and Readers

By Phong Bui

In their works, artists create fertile grounds in which human freedom can thrive, rooted always in the individual rather than in institutions, churches, or national states. While each artist may undertake their journey differently in relation to their awareness of Plato’s chariot allegory and Nietzsche’s metamorphoses of the spirit—they, as their own masters, are driven to make their work from inner necessity, a condition that embraces both feeling and thought, held together by the embracing unity of freedom.

Editor's Message

PICTURE KILL

By Geoffrey Batchen

Whether as a disputed term within political debates or as a photographic quality mortally threatened by new technologies, truth has become a central flashpoint in our current cultural moment. Does truth have a future? If so, what will that truth look like?

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