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Isabel Jacobs reports from the first London-based festival celebrating Armenian cinema. e-flux.com/notes/646055/a…

This Jakarta Biennale focuses on issues of land use and ecological crisis that are unavoidable in the city, writes Innas Tsuroiya. Yet its lasting contribution might be in proposing a future for radical artistic practice outside metropolitan centers. e-flux.com/criticism/6447…

e-flux journal issue 150 is out now! with Mi You, Danilo Scholz, Jacob Dreyer, Max Grünberg, Dingxin Zhao, Aiwen Yin and Yiren Zhao, and Aslak Aamot Helm. e-flux.com/journal/150/

Amid a widespread rise in anti-immigration politics, Francis Alÿs's recent body of work -- focused around children and the Strait of Gibraltar -- simultaneously presents populist ideology and strips it away, writes Alan Gilbert. e-flux.com/criticism/6461…

Crystal Bennes admires Lebanese artist Mohamad Abdouni’s photography-based practice, which draws attention to the way that normative conceptions of masculinity are constructed in order to challenge persistent stereotypes. e-flux.com/criticism/6454…

Today e-flux closes for a short holiday break until January 2. e-flux.com/announcements/…

Stephanie Bailey finds that the seventh edition of Jaou Tunis—a biennale staged across the Tunisian capital—highlights the transformative power of defiance and posits resistance as an expression of both love and creativity. e-flux.com/criticism/6466…

A retrospective group show of four Bali-based artists who lived and worked together in the 1990s reveals the strange, fascinating fruits of their collective dreaming, writes Adeline Chia. e-flux.com/criticism/6469…

That art criticism operates on a slower timeframe than our hyper-accelerated news cycle is sometimes a cause of frustration, write the editors, but might also be the great advantage of the form. e-flux.com/criticism/6482…

A well-intentioned attempt to redress the dehumanization of disabled people in a royal collection risks reinscribing the prejudice it attempts to dismantle, writes Kenny Fries. e-flux.com/criticism/6500…

ikkibawiKrrr's solo exhibition at Art Sonje Center takes visitors on a trip through geologic time, writes Hallie Ayres, that redraws the evolutionary boundaries between organic life and the "inert" mineral world. e-flux.com/criticism/6496…

Published late last year, Rachael Rakes’s profile of the great American painter Jo Baer (who passed away this month, aged 95) outlined the course of a pioneering career from the early abstract works through to the “radical figuration” of latter decades. e-flux.com/criticism/6334…

Sean O’Toole profiles the multi-disciplinary artist Nolan Oswald Dennis, a self-described “un-South African South African” whose richly layered work draws its speculative reach from science fiction. e-flux.com/criticism/6512…

Cihad Caner attempts to reconstruct a collective understanding of the 1972 anti-immigration riots in Rotterdam's Afrikaanderwijk neighborhood, writes Musoke Nalwoga, tracing the influence of these events into the present. e-flux.com/criticism/6513…

Thotti reviews two Carlito Carvalhosa retrospectives in São Paulo. e-flux.com/notes/653571/a…

e-flux Criticism editors' letter: If works of art might be understood as "telegrams," carrying information from different times and places that might help us to understand our own, then what messages have we missed? e-flux.com/criticism/6535…

Shortlisted artists and curators for the Australian Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale call for the reinstatement of artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino. e-flux.com/notes/655601/o…

“Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet” reveals a period in which developments in computing foreshadowed the world of instant communication, ubiquitous surveillance, and intelligent machines in which we now live, writes Brian Dillon. e-flux.com/criticism/6544…

Malik Nejmi examines the nuanced connections between architecture and cultural memory in working-class French communities. For Océane Ragoucy, this solo show points to new ways of thinking about conservation. e-flux.com/criticism/6597…

EDITORS' LETTER: If art history is “ghost stories for grown-ups,” as Aby Warburg claims, then the most enduring works of art might be those that cannot easily be recuperated into our existing versions of reality, write the editors of e-flux Criticism. e-flux.com/criticism/6636…