Love Will Tear Us Apart / Ben Frost
In October 2025, Istanbul ‘74 presented Love Will Tear Us Apart, a new site-specific installation by Ben Frost that transforms a pair of adjoining rooms into a sound study of fractured communication. Using battered foldback monitors salvaged from years of stage use, Frost creates a sonic environment where signals drift, collide and dissolve across a physical divide. The work examines how individuals strain to reach one another, how intimacy is shaped by misalignment, and how even damaged instruments can carry the residue of longing.
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/by Editor NastyChloé & Vanessa Beecroft’s Partenope / Naples
A rare convergence of music, myth, fashion, and performance, Partenope marks the long-awaited world premiere of Ennio Morricone’s only opera, staged at Naples’ iconic Teatro di San Carlo. Directed by Vanessa Beecroft and featuring a historic first collaboration with Chloé under Chemena Kamali, the production unfolds as an ethereal tribute to femininity, ritual and the city of Naples itself, where sound, movement, and costume merge into a singular, immersive experience.
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/by adminFantasy Vanishes in Flesh / Ivana Bašić
Ivana Bašić’s exhibition at Galleria Francesca Minini in Milan remains open only until 12th December. This is the very last chance to experience a show that gathers together archaic materials, hybrid bodies and a profound meditation on transformation and birth.
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/by Editor NastyWrapped in Flesh and Blood / Antoine d’Agata
Approaching fear, vulnerability, and intimacy, along with the philosophical and political dimensions that shape his relentless exploration of human experience, in this conversation Antoine d’Agata offers a rare insight into the mind of an artist whose vision is inseparable from the intensity of the life he inhabits.
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/by Editor NastyPower for Art’s Sake / Reading Pyotr Pavlensky’s Subject–Object Art Theory
Through a dense network of references, from Baroque tenebrism to Courbet’s Salon des Refusés and the long tradition of art enlisted in service of political authority, in his latest book artist Pyotr Pavlensky maps the intellectual architecture behind his practice.
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At Art Basel Miami, the American artist's installation turns the 1997 Mercedes C280 into a drifting witness to the fragmentary pulse of the road. In collaboration with The Patina Collective, the work unfolds as a meditation on the human-machine relationship, where moments dissolve into rhythm, emotion flickers through metal, and the journey becomes both physical and psychological.
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/by Editor NastyLeonora Carrington / Palazzo Reale
At Palazzo Reale in Milan, a major retrospective brings Leonora Carrington’s imagination into focus through more than sixty works that trace her journey from England to Mexico, from surrealist rebellion to spiritual transcendence. Curated through thematic chapters, each weaving together her life and artistic metamorphoses, the exhibition illuminates how Carrington transformed the dream into an instrument of knowledge, and art into a laboratory of female liberation.
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/by Editor NastySex And Politics / Art Icon
During the Paris photo week, With the support of Art Icon, a non-profit cultural organisation, the curators collected Pieces of some of the prominent names in the world of photograph such as Roger Ballen, Lars von Trier, Nadya Tolokonnikova / Pussy Riot, Santiago Sierra, Lydia Lunch, Tali Lennox. The result was a socially engaged exhibition, reflecting on the relationship between ideology, society, sexuality, and politics.
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/by Editor NastyBring Back God / Bring Back Juergen Teller
Athens. A factory on the city’s gritty fringe. Concrete floors, cracked windows, the pulse of production replaced by something wilder: the unruly universe of Juergen Teller.
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/by Editor NastyTime Rewritten in Matter / Nero Design Gallery
Founded in Arezzo in 2005 by Michele Seppia, Nero Design Gallery is more than a showroom, it’s a stage where historical and contemporary design meet. In this conversation with Seppia, we explore how Nero Design Gallery continues to shape the dialogue between art, design, and Italian craftsmanship.
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/by Editor NastyLove’s Secret Domain / Noelia Towers
In artist’s work, innocence clashes with experience, and every muted colour, hidden face, or subtle gesture carries a perception of delicacy in contrast with a strong unspoken.
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/by Editor NastyWhat Is Really Real? / ’74 Ist. Festival
Celebrating its 15th edition, the contemporary art festival reshaped the territory of Istanbul, posing to all of us a challenging question, an invitation to reflect on our lives and the structures that defined them.
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/by Editor NastyUncovered / Jovan Studio
Serbian multidisciplinary artist Jovan Stevanovic, founder of Jovan Studio, blends 3D precision with raw emotion, crafting surreal yet familiar worlds that blur the line between reality and digital fantasy. This interview unveils the creative force behind his futuristic, boundary-pushing vision.
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/by adminThe Bastard Fields / Most Dismal Swamp
Set in a surreal world where AI and humanity in art collide, the installation fuses performance, film, and philosophy to question what happens when technology begins to erode our sense of self.
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/by Editor NastyFinché nessuno muore / Lust for Paper
Between the neon-lit Milan of the early 2000s and the unflinching intimacy of confession, Vera Nevi builds a literary world where domination becomes a metaphor for self-knowledge rather than control. Finché nessuno muore transforms the true story of a young girl becoming a dominatrix into an exploration of fragility, loneliness, and truth.
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/by Editor NastyDigging Wounds / Shirin Neshat
If there is an image that can capture Shirin Neshat’s work, it is a wound first touched, the finger sliding over old cuts once stitched together. In this three-voice interview we confront both her major works and her newest pieces, tracing the tangled threads between her art and the geopolitical violence unfolding around us.
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/by Editor NastyBetween Art, Sound, and Space / Minimal Collective
A chat with Brent van den Elshout, the co-founder and one of the minds behind Minimal Collective on the occasion of its Post-Space event at Oude Kerk, Amsterdam.
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/by Editor NastyBastard Fields / Bacon Factory
Jamie Macleod Bryden attends Most Dismal Swamp’s new exhibition “The Bastard Fields” at the Bacon Factory – facilitated by the Autotelic Foundation. The piece runs to Dec 14th.
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