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‘Like a carefully choreographed performance’: meet the logistics professionals who bring art fairs to life

Art fairs appear serene on the surface, but behind the scenes, logistics professionals work frantically to ship, install, and present hundreds of artworks. The article shares dramatic installation tales from galleries and shippers, including Gianpietro Carlesso's heavy sculpture at Frieze Sculpture 2020, a Calder Stegosaurus transported for Art Basel Miami Beach 2013, and Mandy El-Sayegh's immersive booth installation at Frieze London 2023. These stories highlight the challenges of tight schedules, extreme weather, and complex installations that require structural engineers, cranes, and overnight work.

Madrid: Hypnotic Laugh Track by Manga Ngcobo

Writer Manga Ngcobo reflects on the architectural and cultural landscape of Madrid in early 2025, juxtaposing the city's historic art institutions with its rapid technological and commercial evolution. Drawing on Ben Lerner’s novel 'Leaving the Atocha Station', the piece explores the growing disconnect between the profound emotional experiences promised by masters like Velázquez and Goya and the reality of a city increasingly designed for content creation, retail aesthetics, and digital consumption.

A Place of Perpetual Warmth: Hyde Park Art Center and the Making of Chicago’s Creative Identity

The Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC) stands as a vital pillar of Chicago’s grassroots creative identity, serving for eighty-six years as an unpretentious alternative to the city's major encyclopedic museums. From its early days under curator Don Baum, the center became a catalyst for the avant-garde, famously launching the careers of the Chicago Imagists and the Hairy Who. Today, it continues to function as a multifaceted ecosystem that blends community education, artist residencies, and experimental exhibitions within a residential neighborhood setting.