My Head is a Haunted House Sadie Coles HQ / London
Charlie Fox, author of the spellbinding collection of essays This Young Monster (2017), has created an exhibition that — with its…
Whether Line Fondazione Prada / Milan
Depicted today, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s “noble savage” would have a stylist. Perhaps more than one. This cynical statement prompts us to…
CRACK UP – CRACK DOWN 33rd Ljubljana Biennial
What is the place of comedy in a groundless world? Amid the volatility of contemporary society, where claims of truth,…
MOMENTUM10 10th Nordic Biennial of Contemporay Art / Norway
The tenth installment of this Scandinavian biennial, held in the small paper-milling town of Moss, Norway, can certainly be seen…
Eco-Tripping: Ant Farm’s Environmental Media
In 1970, the American architecture and video collective Ant Farm advertised their distinctly countercultural services as “air buildings, nomadic visions”…
Between Two Bookends: Ecology and the Work of Mark Dion
The environmental catastrophe that is currently unfolding before our eyes has a single culprit at its source — the human…
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The Process Behind Joan Jonas’ New Oceanic Work
During the making of her exhibition “Moving Off the Land II,” currently on view at Ocean Space in Venice, Joan…
The “Homespun Spinelessness Cult” of nabbteeri
The task of representing Finland, Norway, and Sweden — or the Nordic countries — at the 58th International Art Exhibition…
On Failure, Decay, and New Forms of Responsibility. A Conversation with Ibrahim Mahama
Architecture, and the dissonance between its history, form and function is paramount to artist Ibrahim Mahama, representing Ghana at the…
Anastasia Mityukova’s Project Iceworm
“Project Iceworm” was a mid-twentieth-century mission undertaken — then abandoned — by the U.S. military to test nuclear missiles in…
Sex and the Panopticon A conversation between Shu Lea Cheang and Paul B. Preciado
Shu Lea Cheang has lived a number of different lives: as a queer media activist, a cyberpunk filmmaker, and an…
Crossing Borders, Mobilizing Thought: The Farm in the Cave’s Seven-Hour Performance
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. If there is a common element in recent experimental…
Disaffected Bodies: Anne Imhof’s Sex
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. Anne Imhof’s much-anticipated new work presented at Tate Modern…
Forsythe’s Immaculate Choreography
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. It’s fitting that American dancer, choreographer, and artist William…
Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. “The source of life in any dancer is…
Celine Condorelli Kunsthal Aarhus / Denmark
A new commission by Kunsthal Aarhus, “Host” does precisely what its title suggests: it provides a setting for a film…
Pipilotti Rist Louisiana Museum of Modern Art / Denmark
You may recall “Underwater Love,” the1997 track by Smoke City that featured subtle guitar lines, a constant drum beat, and…
Anicka Yi Gladstone Gallery / Brussels
Anicka Yi’s first exhibition at Gladstone Gallery presents evidence of hybridization and symbiosis between different forms of life, whether animal…
Derek Jarman Amanda Wilkinson / London
Twelve paintings made by Derek Jarman between 1989 and 1990 make up the exhibition “Shadow Is the Queen of Colour”…
Lydia Ourahmane Bodega / New York
Lydia Ourahmane’s exhibition “low relief” at Bodega is comprised of a set of sculptures that suggest an emergence of the…
Trevor Paglen MCASD / San Diego
Welcome to the end. The end of world, maybe — though more certainly the end of the exhibition. In a…
Global National Haus am Lützowplatz / Berlin
Some things are over in no time at all, and some things linger, even if one would like them to…
Arus Balik NTU, Centre for Contemporary Art / Singapore
“Arus Balik – From Below the Wind to Above the Wind and Back Again” is an exhibition that references an…
Art and the Idea of Black Film: A Conversation
This past fall, the Fondazione Prada in Milan hosted “The Black Image Corporation” (September 20, 2018–January 14, 2019), conceived by…
Spectacle of Concealment
Performances of blackness have generally been limited to particular styles of music, theater, dance, and popular culture, which has fostered…
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A Vogue Idea is a column by Matthew Linde exploring contemporary fashion practice.The ambivalent logic in which fashion perpetually rewrites itself…
Double Take
Mary Evans: Oh, you wouldn’t do this if I were a man! Lonny Borden: I wouldn’t want to. — What…
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May You Live In Interesting Times 57th Venice Biennale
Stefano Serretta Italian Cultural Institute / Stockholm
Whether Line Fondazione Prada / Milan
My Head is a Haunted House Sadie Coles HQ / London
Piero Manzoni Hauser & Wirth / New York
Celine Condorelli Kunsthal Aarhus / Denmark
Carroll Dunham Galerie Eva Presenhuber / Zurich
Global National Haus am Lützowplatz / Berlin