Considering Love in the Age of COVID-19Oliver BascianoArtReview Asia10 September 2020‘What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Love’ gathers canonical texts around the theme of love – poignant reading in the pains of isolation
Work of the Week: Sophia Al-Maria, ‘Little Birds’Oliver Bascianoartreview.com17 August 2020The new Sky Atlantic TV series, for which the artist was screenwriter, is loosely based on Anaïs Nin’s posthumous 1979 collection of erotic vignettes
Why John Cage Was Mad About MushroomsOliver BascianoArtReview11 August 2020‘John Cage: A Mycological Foray’ tracks the American composer’s adventures into the world of fungi
Work of the Week: John Giorno, ‘Great Demon Kings: A Memoir of Poetry, Sex, Art, Death, and Enlightenment’Oliver Bascianoartreview.com06 August 2020‘I was young and beautiful and that got me what I wanted, and all I wanted was sex.’
How the Postman Delivered a Lifeline to Queer MisfitsOliver BascianoArtReview24 July 2020From love letters to mail-order pornography – on the long history of LGBT communities finding solace in the anonymity of the postal system
Work of the Week: Artists’ Guide to Feminist EconomicsOliver Bascianoartreview.com22 July 2020New podcast ‘True Currency’, from artists Ruth Beale and Amy Feneck, makes for vital listening
Work of the Week: Derek Jarman, ‘Imagining October’Oliver Bascianoartreview.com10 July 2020The rarely-seen film, streaming this week, mutes the heroism of revolution through the queered lens
