Vero · QuarterlyIssue Nº 24·Summer 2026·Contemporary Art, Carefully
Section · 02

Essays — longer
arguments, slower
reading.

Long-form pieces about contemporary practice, criticism, and the structures within which both happen. Usually 3,000 to 6,000 words. Always written by people we trust to take the time.

Selected essays.

Slide archive
Essay

What the slide projector knew that we have forgotten.

A long meditation on how 35mm slides shaped the way a generation of artists looked at their own work — and what was lost when we stopped projecting.

Elena Marchetti · 14 minRead essay
Empty studio
Essay

On the persistent myth of the empty studio.

Why "the studio is where the work happens" is, in 2026, less true than at any point in the past century — and what that means for how we write about practice.

Cosmin Bălan · 11 minRead essay