Chiffon Thomas “Ribbon Sharp” Perrotin / Paris
Chiffon Thomas’s sculptures are a vexed dance between laws of prohibition and compulsion for transgression. For his solo show at…
Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah “Corner Dry Lungs” MMK–Museum für Moderne Kunst / Frankfurt am Main
There is an inevitable temptation in the explication of any artwork to resort to the anecdotal — a persistent urge…
“Energies” Swiss Institute / New York
A hole in the wall greets visitors to “Energies,” an international group exhibition at the Swiss Institute in New York.…
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349 WINTER 2024-25, Critic Dispatch
I ♥ NY
Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face! Clouds of the west — sun there half an hour high…
Out of Joint: “Horror Patriae” / steirischer herbst 2024
On the train to Graz for my first ever visit to steirischer herbst, I find myself captivated by the intriguing…
The 15th Dak’Art Biennale of Contemporary African Art: A Journey through Atlantis
Postponed for six months due to political turmoil last spring, the fifteenth edition of the Biennale of Contemporary African Art…
Gods Gather at the Temple of Avant Pop: C2C Festival 2024
I bump into Bill Kouligas and Gabber Eleganza behind the Stone Island stage at C2C Festival in Turin. Yaeji is…
The Age of Sobriety? A Glance at Institutional Exhibitions during Art Basel Paris 2024
During Art Basel Paris this year, the big deal in the city was the return of the fair to the…
348 FALL 2024
COVERS → ◯ Mire Lee in her home in Berlin, wearing Hyein Seo, photographed by Hyesoo Chung, June 2024. Courtesy…
347 SUMMER 2024
COVERS → ◯ Judy Chicago photographed by Joshua Woods in her studio in Belen, New Mexico, May 2024, wearing Dior.…
Flash Art Volumes 001 ANTI-COMPOSITION
COVERS → ◯ Screenshot from a Zoom call between Michael E. Smith and Luigi Alberto Cippini on March 8, 2024.…
346 SPRING 2024
COVERS → ◯ Klára Hosnedlová photographed by Joseph Kadow at Sculpture Berlin, December 2023, wearing Ottolinger and eyewear by Kuboraum.…