“I GOT UP” Hot Wheels / Athens
Four identical postcards displayed in the gallery’s entryway bear the stamped, enigmatic phrase “I GOT UP AT,” followed by the…
Oto Gillen “Wax Gourd” LOMEX Gallery / New York
A fine-grained texture permeates Oto Gillen’s photographs of New York City, as if the psychic friction of eight and a…
Christina Quarles MCA / Chicago
Los Angeles–based artist Christina Quarles (American, b. 1985) paints bodies that are subjected not only to the weight and gravity…
Olga Balema “Computer” Camden Art Centre / London
All for the little nature of water lilies, Claude Monet developed a portion of land and diverted a narrow arm…
The Age of Love: Chapter II Quack! A Duck’s Heart
Over the last few months I’ve had several important encounters with swans, geese, and ducks. We humans, now outside our…
The Sensual Spiral. A conversation with Fatima Al Qadiri
Andrea Lissoni: How are you doing? Fatima Al Qadiri: I’m good. I just finished a big project, so it’s my…
Cao Fei: Overlapping Temporalities and Realities
Hou Hanru: When I first visited her studio, Cao Fei had just graduated from the art academy. Her parents were…
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334 SPRING 2021
COVER → Helen Marten, Water Fidelity (Them), 2018. Detail. 310 × 1.250 × 500 cm. Installation view of “Fixed Sky Situation”…
333 WINTER 2020-21
COVER → Nora Turato, wow this huge wooden horse is great!, 2020. Performance during the festival “MOVE” at Centre Pompidou, Paris,…
332 FALL 2020
COVER → Liliane Lijn, Lilith, 2001. Patinated bronze, phlogopite mica, gas, brass and stainless steel fittings. 186.5 × 55.5 ×…
331 Summer Issue 2020
COVER → Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Complication, 2013. Oil on canvas. 78.7 × 98.4 in. Courtesy of the artist; Corvi-Mora, London; and Jack Shainman…
