Zander Leissle
@alexanderleissle.bsky.social
digital editor @artreview.bsky.social / https://alexanderleissle.blog/contact
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"films from C20, struck by the richness, even wackiness of the dialogue, fast-talking screwball heroines of 30s, delightful camp of 80s action capers. Now our presiding aesthetic is laconic world-weariness set against thumping techno+droning ambience. Dialogue is over."
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Dialogue Is Over
The year in film: 2025 was the year of the social-politics drama. Did any of them have much to say?
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December 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"films from C20, struck by the richness, even wackiness of the dialogue, fast-talking screwball heroines of 30s, delightful camp of 80s action capers. Now our presiding aesthetic is laconic world-weariness set against thumping techno+droning ambience. Dialogue is over."
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artreview.com/dialogue-is-...
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They just published my Year in Religion: popes, wars and walk through São Paulo before Christmas. The title is a shoutout to any fellow Fosseheads. artreview.com/a-continuous...
A Continuous Prayer
The year in religion: What, in 2025, was contemporary art’s relationship to a world of changing – and radicalising – spiritual cultures?
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December 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
They just published my Year in Religion: popes, wars and walk through São Paulo before Christmas. The title is a shoutout to any fellow Fosseheads. artreview.com/a-continuous...
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wrote about ‘The Year in Mental Health’ @artreview.bsky.social
“If there now seems to be a broad cultural consensus that everybody hurts, that everybody ‘has’ mental health – even men! – there is little agreement on where the misery comes from or how to make it stop.”
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“If there now seems to be a broad cultural consensus that everybody hurts, that everybody ‘has’ mental health – even men! – there is little agreement on where the misery comes from or how to make it stop.”
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Rub It Better ‘Til It Bleeds
The Year in Mental Health: From the datafication of therapy to the ‘crisis’ of overdiagnosis, it seemed everyone in 2025 was doing just fine
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December 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
wrote about ‘The Year in Mental Health’ @artreview.bsky.social
“If there now seems to be a broad cultural consensus that everybody hurts, that everybody ‘has’ mental health – even men! – there is little agreement on where the misery comes from or how to make it stop.”
artreview.com/rub-it-bette...
“If there now seems to be a broad cultural consensus that everybody hurts, that everybody ‘has’ mental health – even men! – there is little agreement on where the misery comes from or how to make it stop.”
artreview.com/rub-it-bette...
by avoiding his books, i'd imagine www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Stephen Fry launches campaign to boost reading for pleasure
The Hay festival president is asking readers for book recommendations that will ‘entice the most reluctant reader’ to help combat the decline in leisure reading
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December 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
by avoiding his books, i'd imagine www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
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@artreview.bsky.social's 2025 lookbacks have been excellent (more to come). No listicle slop: Amber Hussein on the Year in Eating, @martinherbert.bsky.social on AI, Rebecca Liu on the death of dialogue in film. Great commissioning from @alexanderleissle.bsky.social. artreview.com/category/the...
The Year in Review
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December 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
@artreview.bsky.social's 2025 lookbacks have been excellent (more to come). No listicle slop: Amber Hussein on the Year in Eating, @martinherbert.bsky.social on AI, Rebecca Liu on the death of dialogue in film. Great commissioning from @alexanderleissle.bsky.social. artreview.com/category/the...
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On Beirut in @artreview.bsky.social, a story similar to Baghdad's, where development hardly meets resistance, serving the butchers-cum-elites to enforce amnesia, exorcise the ghost Saddam Hussein, and erect a city over a city in their own name, murdering histories.
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‘Restorative Justice’: Beirut’s Struggle with Truth
Heritage in Lebanon is not just about aesthetics; it is about truth
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November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
On Beirut in @artreview.bsky.social, a story similar to Baghdad's, where development hardly meets resistance, serving the butchers-cum-elites to enforce amnesia, exorcise the ghost Saddam Hussein, and erect a city over a city in their own name, murdering histories.
artreview.com/restorative-...
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For @thequietus.com I reviewed JJJJJerome Ellis’s latest, album of the year candidate imo thequietus.com/quietus-revi...
JJJJJerome Ellis – Vesper Sparrow | The Quietus
Tidewater, Virgina-born artist and 'proud stutterer' returns with an album built on backwards violins, granular synthesis, fluttering sax and quiet transcendence
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November 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
For @thequietus.com I reviewed JJJJJerome Ellis’s latest, album of the year candidate imo thequietus.com/quietus-revi...
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The Tidewater, Virgina-born artist and 'proud stutterer' returns with an album built on backwards violins, granular synthesis, fluttering sax and quiet transcendence
JJJJJerome Ellis - Vesper Sparrow
buff.ly/ek4YqBZ
JJJJJerome Ellis - Vesper Sparrow
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November 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The Tidewater, Virgina-born artist and 'proud stutterer' returns with an album built on backwards violins, granular synthesis, fluttering sax and quiet transcendence
JJJJJerome Ellis - Vesper Sparrow
buff.ly/ek4YqBZ
JJJJJerome Ellis - Vesper Sparrow
buff.ly/ek4YqBZ
A gorgeous new poem by Ralf Webb is out now: ‘Girls, I thought, understand / The attitudes of animals in motion. / Girls could reveal the nature of happy horses’ artreview.com/two-horses-a...
‘Two Horses’: A Poem by Ralf Webb
‘Girls, I thought, understand / The attitudes of animals in motion. / Girls could reveal the nature of happy horses’
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October 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
A gorgeous new poem by Ralf Webb is out now: ‘Girls, I thought, understand / The attitudes of animals in motion. / Girls could reveal the nature of happy horses’ artreview.com/two-horses-a...
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is AI *actually* the aesthetic of fascism? I think a lot of the discourse has gotten it wrong, and I explained why in my latest for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/the-fascinat...
The ‘Fascinating Fascism’ of AI
The US government’s anniversary AI project tells us nothing about American history and everything about today’s America
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September 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
is AI *actually* the aesthetic of fascism? I think a lot of the discourse has gotten it wrong, and I explained why in my latest for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/the-fascinat...
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The state of art criticism today resembles a crisis of freedom, where one reality has been rejected but another has yet to be conceived artreview.com/notes-from-n...
Notes from New York: Art Critics and Gangster Capitalism
The state of art criticism today resembles a crisis of freedom, when one reality has been rejected but another has yet to be conceived
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September 3, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The state of art criticism today resembles a crisis of freedom, where one reality has been rejected but another has yet to be conceived artreview.com/notes-from-n...
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"What isn't at the V&A?" — new from me in @artreview.bsky.social on enduring colonialism, art-washing working class heritage, and a museum without labels
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What Isn’t at the V&A Storehouse
You can’t escape it: this is the same colonial museum we know, in a shiny new suit
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August 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"What isn't at the V&A?" — new from me in @artreview.bsky.social on enduring colonialism, art-washing working class heritage, and a museum without labels
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artreview.com/what-isnt-at...
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the internet is for lying! artreview.com/why-do-we-ha...
Why Do We Have to Be Ourselves Online?
Age verification and data collection require there be no slippage between who governments think we are and who we want ourselves to be – which was the whole point of the internet in the first place
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August 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
the internet is for lying! artreview.com/why-do-we-ha...
For @artreview.bsky.social I reviewed 'Unsettled Earth', an exhibition countering the razing of Palestinian land and erasure of its history. It strikes me that art, while incapable of much else here, can re-introduce the full emotionality of a people and their homeland artreview.com/unsettled-ea...
‘Unsettled Earth’: The Artists Resisting Palestinian Erasure
A new group show and study programme at Berlin’s Spore Initiative reconnects the Palestinian story to the land: how it is experienced, remembered, worked, violated
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July 22, 2025 at 10:37 AM
For @artreview.bsky.social I reviewed 'Unsettled Earth', an exhibition countering the razing of Palestinian land and erasure of its history. It strikes me that art, while incapable of much else here, can re-introduce the full emotionality of a people and their homeland artreview.com/unsettled-ea...
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i wrote about john donne, cronenberg's The Shrouds, and the location of love for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/david-cronen...
David Cronenberg: Grieving in the Digital Age
In his latest film ‘The Shrouds’, characters can livestream their loved ones rotting in the grave. Is this a new monumentalism?
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July 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
i wrote about john donne, cronenberg's The Shrouds, and the location of love for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/david-cronen...
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ArtReview Asia Summer 2025 is out now – featuring Shilpa Gupta, Shimabuku, Bachtiar Siagian; commentary on China’s zombie museums, and legacies of the Black Panther Movement; and much more artreview.com/artreview-as...
ArtReview Asia Summer 2025 Issue Out Now
Featuring Shilpa Gupta, Shimabuku, Bachtiar Siagian; commentary on China’s zombie museums, and legacies of the Black Panther Movement; and much more
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July 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
ArtReview Asia Summer 2025 is out now – featuring Shilpa Gupta, Shimabuku, Bachtiar Siagian; commentary on China’s zombie museums, and legacies of the Black Panther Movement; and much more artreview.com/artreview-as...
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Join Rosanna McLaughlin and Fi Churchman at the ArtReview Bar on 25 June as they discuss McLaughlin’s new book, ‘Against Morality’.
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June 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Join Rosanna McLaughlin and Fi Churchman at the ArtReview Bar on 25 June as they discuss McLaughlin’s new book, ‘Against Morality’.
RSVP essential to [email protected]
RSVP essential to [email protected]
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Defining ‘woman’ by biological female sex isn’t just about excluding trans people from single-sex spaces. It also highlights how little respect governing bodies have for the community as a whole artreview.com/the-trans-co...
The Trans Community Refuses to Be Erased
Defining ‘woman’ by biological female sex isn’t just about excluding trans people from single-sex spaces. It also highlights how little respect governing bodies have for the trans community as a whole
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June 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Defining ‘woman’ by biological female sex isn’t just about excluding trans people from single-sex spaces. It also highlights how little respect governing bodies have for the community as a whole artreview.com/the-trans-co...
My review of Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s work is now up on @artreview.bsky.social. Big, vertiginous tapestries and some conceptual trickery later on. Whether it’s what you want from art or not, I think it works. artreview.com/ailbhe-ni-bh...
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain: Things Falling Apart
Across largescale tapestries and adroit conceptual works, the artist examines the destructive forces in the world
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June 17, 2025 at 9:13 AM
My review of Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s work is now up on @artreview.bsky.social. Big, vertiginous tapestries and some conceptual trickery later on. Whether it’s what you want from art or not, I think it works. artreview.com/ailbhe-ni-bh...
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Across largescale tapestries and adroit conceptual works, the artist examines the destructive forces in the world artreview.com/ailbhe-ni-bh...
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain: Things Falling Apart
Across largescale tapestries and adroit conceptual works, the artist examines the destructive forces in the world
artreview.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Across largescale tapestries and adroit conceptual works, the artist examines the destructive forces in the world artreview.com/ailbhe-ni-bh...
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'Kehlmann frequently compares his subject’s compliant life under the Nazi regime to that lived on a film set.'
Alexander Leissle on the compromises and self-justifications of G. W. Pabst
Alexander Leissle on the compromises and self-justifications of G. W. Pabst
Not a political person
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June 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
'Kehlmann frequently compares his subject’s compliant life under the Nazi regime to that lived on a film set.'
Alexander Leissle on the compromises and self-justifications of G. W. Pabst
Alexander Leissle on the compromises and self-justifications of G. W. Pabst
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Gertrude Stein’s literary experiments; celebrity mystics; the compromises of G. W. Pabst; a tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa; Toni Morrison’s books – and much more.
www.the-tls.co.uk/issues/cu...
www.the-tls.co.uk/issues/cu...
June 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Gertrude Stein’s literary experiments; celebrity mystics; the compromises of G. W. Pabst; a tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa; Toni Morrison’s books – and much more.
www.the-tls.co.uk/issues/cu...
www.the-tls.co.uk/issues/cu...
I'm in the new @thetls.bsky.social, reviewing Daniel Kehlmann’s latest novel – about G. W. Pabst, art’s relationship to fascism, and the ways in which aesthetic taste and social ethics are interlinked www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/f...
Not a political person
An expert film director, frustrated by the creative restriction and cultural shallowness of Hollywood’s so-called golden age, returns with his loyal
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June 5, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I'm in the new @thetls.bsky.social, reviewing Daniel Kehlmann’s latest novel – about G. W. Pabst, art’s relationship to fascism, and the ways in which aesthetic taste and social ethics are interlinked www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/f...
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I went long on how policy, colonialism, being neglect, diaspora and the contemporary art market produce layers of visibility and obscurity for Santurce's contemporary art scene for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/how-to-see-t...
How to See the Puerto Rican Art Scene
The island faces a challenge of visibility, with barriers imposed by imperial neglect, poor urban infrastructure and a lack of local arts journalism. But discoverability and visibility can come at a c...
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June 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I went long on how policy, colonialism, being neglect, diaspora and the contemporary art market produce layers of visibility and obscurity for Santurce's contemporary art scene for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/how-to-see-t...