Alex Margo Arden “Safety Curtain” Auto Italia / London
Auto Italia’s street-facing window displays facsimile posters for Les Misérables. On them, a text addendum reads: “Tonight’s performance has been…
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Julius Eastman and Glenn Ligon “Evil Nigger” 52 Walker / New York
To be out of joint takes having perspective and moral fire; it takes disdain for the status quo and convention.…
Mike Kelley “Ghost and Spirit” Tate Modern, London
“Ghost and Spirit,” the first major UK retrospective of Mike Kelley’s work, begins with “Personality Crisis” (1982). Three large signatures:…
Cosima von Bonin “Songs for Gay Dogs” MUDAM / Luxembourg
Cosima von Bonin’s exhibition “Songs for Gay Dogs” at MUDAM, Luxembourg, is defined by dynamics of generosity and restraint: what…
“Scientia Sexualis” ICA / Los Angeles
“I’ve always been grossed out by the vagina,” my friend, a gold-star gay, deadpans as we survey the landmark group…
Martine Syms “Total” Lafayette Anticipations / Paris
Martine Syms’s work combines humor and social commentary to addressAfrican-American consciousness, its relationship to feminist thought, radical theoretical models, and…
“After Images” Julia Stoschek Foundation / Berlin
“After Images” at Julia Stoschek Foundation in Berlin is an exhibition without images — or almost. Most of the more…
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…
“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.…
Steve McQueen “Bass” Dia:Beacon / New York
The exhibition brochure for Steve McQueen’s Bass (2024), which occupies Dia:Beacon’s 30,000-square-foot basement with sixty ceiling-mounted LED lightboxes and three…
Dana Schutz “The Island” The George Economou Collection / Athens
I will start with a confession: I once bumped into Dana Schutz in the center of Athens on one of…
Katharina Grosse “Shifting the Stars” Centre Pompidou-Metz
The etymology of the verb “desire” refers to the disappearance of a star from human sight — desidere in Latin.…
“Arcadia” Bally Foundation / Lugano
“For one scant day he had loved himself, felt himself to be unified and whole, not split into hostile parts;…
Jana Euler “Oilopa” WIELS / Brussels
At a time of climate upheaval, when every action and gesture is examined in terms of its carbon footprint, it’s…
Marianna Simnett “WINNER” Hamburger Bahnhof / Berlin
Marianna Simnett’s three-channel video installation WINNER (2024) occupies a vast space in Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof. Viewers enter through a dark…
Donald Rodney “Visceral Canker” Spike Island / Bristol
Standing in front of Donald Rodney’s Visceral Canker (1990) — a seemingly living work, which this survey exhibition at Spike…