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…
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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…
Olivia Erlanger “If Today Were Tomorrow” Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Olivia Erlanger’s exhibition “If Today Were Tomorrow” starts in space. Space as in vantage point. Space as in site, both…
Pierre Huyghe “Liminal” Punta della Dogana / Venice
There’s an enigmatic peculiarity to Pierre Huyghe’s work, a riddle one can easily get lost in and miss the more…
Nancy Holt “Circles of Light” Gropius Bau / Berlin
Is Nancy Holt primarily a land artist? The notion of Land art conjures a time generations ago when landscape…
Whitney Biennial 2024 “Even Better Than the Real Thing” Whitney Museum of American Art / New York
Curating the Whitney Biennial is a fool’s errand by design. A snapshot of contemporary American art — a wide tent…
Aki Sasamoto “Sounding Lines” Para Site / Hong Kong
To enter Aki Sasamoto’s exhibition “Sounding Lines” at Para Site, you need a half-minute journey to the 22nd floor. You…
Roni Horn Hauser & Wirth / Menorca
To get to Illa del Rey, on the northeastern side of Menorca, a short boat ride is necessary. This brief…
Mohamed Bourouissa “Signal” Palais de Tokyo / Paris
At the 1920 Dada Festival in Paris, André Breton wore a sign made by Francis Picabia, a drawing of a…
Paul Pfeiffer “Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom” MOCA – Museum of Contemporary Art / Los Angeles
First and foremost, Paul Pfeiffer’s retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, “Prologue to the Story of the…
“A Cosmic Movie Camera” Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement / Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève
Examining last century’s art through a post-formalist lens reveals two key aspects: the gradual blurring of the line between viewer…