Catch up on some reading this summer! We suggest our recently published conversation about documenta14 in Athens, a free-form watercolor interview with 2016 CAS resident Mathias Kryger and artist Anne Ihle, essay Hell is Other People by Natasha Marie Llorens, and a review of the exhibition Kitty Kielland; Open Air.

We are thrilled to welcome Rachael Rakes and Julie Niemi as the 2017 CAS Residents in Art Writing. Throughout the summer and autumn season, they will be visiting Stavanger, attending studio visits, presenting their practices, and of course writing! Look forward to their forthcoming articles on CAS in the coming months.

Rachael Rakes is an independent curator, critic, and teacher based in New York. She is an editor for the Brooklyn Rail, an Editor at Large for Verso Books, and has written criticism in numerous outlets including Art-Agenda, Artforum, and the Village Voice. She is currently working on a book on the collaborative practices of radical filmmaker Peter Watkins, which received a 2014 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.

Julie Niemi is a writer, curator, and publisher currently based in New York. She received an M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, where she was commissioning editor of aCCeSsions. Her writing has appeared in Frieze, Temporary Art Review, and Art21 Magazine. She has given talks at UCLA, Independent Curators International, and Threewalls. She is part of the curatorial collective Anne-Marie and co-runs The Barn.

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