Louise Giovanelli is one of the hottest rising stars of her generation. She spoke to Tandem about modern devotion, the overlap between Catholic imagery and porn, and why people keep asking what’s behind her famous curtains:
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Working since the early 1960s, Joanne Leonard has been at the forefront of both the feminist & civil rights movements. These themes run throughout her body of work, particularly in her pioneering “intimate documentary” photographs & her groundbreaking collage practice.

Excited to now be publishing something every week at @tandemmagazine.bsky.social with the addition of "In tandem with..." – our new series of shorter interviews with artists and art people. Read the first one here!

Museum “rehangs” are everywhere, most recently at London's National Gallery. They inspire furious debate about mixing old art & new politics, but we forget that museums have always done that: their Victorian roots have never been more visible.

Introducing our new series, In tandem with...
Up first, artist Grace Lee, whose soft, eerie works are like little windows into another world, they tug at assumptions and unravel our routines of looking.

Read her reflections on failure, socks, and the gift of her presence: www.tandem-mag.com/i/

In Tandem’s latest, María, Isabel Rabassa, Anthony Cudahy, & Ian Lewandowski talk about their shared artistic practices. Read it here:
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Creating a rebellious blueprint, queer artist couples teach us the importance of the collective, of the shared, and of the community. “It’s a liberation, meeting someone who opens you up,” says María Cuellar.
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I wrote about Siena's haunting allure. It's story reminds us that art follows power and power follows art – a pattern that continues today. Read more of my thoughts about its forgotten, golden renaissance here: www.tandem-mag.com/taste-follow...
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Siena is a story of the path history didn’t take. That is the privilege of the powerful: to write something out of memory, to create the myths of nations, of religions, of power.
Read more from @elizag.bsky.social on the what-might-have-been of Siena's renaissance:
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Artist Amy Bravo’s work is animated by one major question: "Would my ancestors like me?" She talks about her multimedia practice, her fraught relationship with her Cuban heritage, and her desire to build an army of queer women in this new interview.
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There is a lot of stuff on the internet, and in real life, and it’s hard to know what’s good. Every month, we’re sending a list of stuff we have encountered digitally or physically that is worthy of a recommendation. Here's the first one – you’re welcome.
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I wrote about beauty & art, and their strangely fraught relationship today. Politicised, deified, feminised: beauty has lost cultural currency, or gained a new one, and I dig into why for @tandemmagazine.bsky.social. I've been thinking about this one for ages.
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"Do we relinquish “beauty” to those who wish to make it signify submission, or do we reimagine and reclaim the complexity, profundity, and spaciousness of the beautiful?"

Read about the battlefield over the beautiful here:
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"When did beauty become a dirty word?" asks Eliza Goodpasture in Tandem's first essay.
Read her thoughts on the politicisation of beauty, and it's general cultural devaluing, here: www.tandem-mag.com/when-did-bea...

"I see myself as a witness of my generation. By choosing to paint the stories that I do, I am witnessing how the world is evolving. I am also telling a bit of my story through everybody’s stories," says Parisian artist Johanna Tordjman. Read the full interview now at tandem-mag.com

"I was asking them to tell me the story of their exile through the prism of the object."
Parisian artist Johanna Tordjman talks to Isabella Fox Arias about bearing witness to her generation of migrants in Tandem's first artist interview.
Read now: www.tandem-mag.com/a-witness-of...

Tandem is an arts publication for the over-stimulated; a space for in-depth, sustained thinking about art today, old and new.
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